International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations 2020
It is a day for organizations, networks and movements to celebrate resistance and raise their voices to demand, “Stop the Expansion of Monoculture Tree Plantations!”
read moreCarbon Sink Plantations
These are tree plantations, often eucalyptus but it can also be acacia, pine or oil palm, where the owner claims that the trees provide the so-called “environmental service” of carbon absorption. However, this is a false solution to the climate crisis. Carbon sink plantation projects increase carbon emissions. Although the carbon dioxide molecules stored in a tree might be chemically identical to the CO2 molecules emitted by a polluter in the North that ‘buys’ this stored CO2 as carbon credits, from a climate point of view the two CO2s are radically different. The carbon from the atmosphere stored in a tree is sooner or later released again when the tree is felled. Yet the polluting company in the North, by burning fossil fuels, throws a ´new´ quantity of Carbon into the atmosphere, increasing the total amount of carbon that is being exchanged all the time between the atmosphere and biosphere.
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News from the 20th Conference of the Parties of the CCC – Lima
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into force in 1994, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. The Conference of the Parties (COP) was designated as the supreme governing...
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Articles from the WRM Bulletin
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The Agony of a Tree-Planting Project on Communities’ Land in Uganda
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The African Development Bank and the Tree Plantations Industry
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Brazil: Plantation Company Suzano Covers Up its Devastating Impacts with Claims of “Conservation”
2020
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Tanzania: Community Resistance against Monoculture Tree Plantations
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India: Plantations uproot women from their customary forests
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Carbon Colonialism: Failure of Green Resources’ Carbon Offset Project in Uganda
2018
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Legal action in defence of the rights of nature of the Tangabana páramo
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10th Anniversary of the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Plantations
2014
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“Forest in exhaustion”: a new trick to subsidize monoculture tree plantations
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The new trend of biomass plantations in Brazil: tree monocultures
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India: Forests and tree plantations under carbon offset schemes
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False solutions to climate change enabling land grabbing in Africa
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Brazil: The case of Plantar – the FSC at the service of the sale of carbon credits
2011
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Uganda: Carbon sink plantation – where trees are more important than people
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Posco: Destroying forests in India and establishing carbon sink plantations in Uruguay
2009
Books and Briefings
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What could be wrong about planting trees? The new push for more industrial tree plantations in the Global South
This publication aims to alert community groups and activists about the corporate push for a new round of large-scale tree plantation expansion.
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Mashamba makubwa ya miti kwa ajili ya viwanda yanavyovamia Mashariki na Kusini mwa Afrika
SWAHILI. Taarifa hii ya pamoja kati ya Timberwatch Coalition na World Rainforest Movement inalenga katika mambo mbalimbali ya ndani na nje yanayojulisha kuhusu hali ya mabadiliko ya mashamba makubwa ya miti kwa ajili ya viwanda katika...
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Industrial Tree Plantations Invading Eastern and Southern Africa
Also available in Swahili
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An overview of industrial tree plantations in the global South: conflicts, trends, and resistance struggles.
After many years of supporting local struggles and disseminating information from different countries on tree monocultures and its impacts, WRM presents a new report to all those involved in these struggle (1). No better time than the...
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Plantations in the mekong region: overview
Eucalyptus, oil palm, rubber and jatropha monoculture plantations are expanding onto local communities’ lands and forests in the Mekong region’s countries. Promoted under the guise of development, poverty alleviation and even climate...
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Carbon Neutral Magicians
Being “carbon neutral” has become fashionable. The World Bank, the Vatican, the World Olympics, the Football World Cup, the Body Shop, the Rolling Stones, and a long list of celebrities proclaim themselves to be totally or partially...
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A funny place to store carbon: UWA-FACE Foundation’s tree planting project in Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda
By Chris Lang and Timothy Byakola “A funny place to store carbon: UWA-FACE Foundation’s tree planting project in Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda”, by Chris Lang and Timothy Byakola, documents human rights abuses at Mount Elgon...
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Monoculture tree plantations in Ecuador
By Patricia Granda Through various government programmes and initiatives, with the support of international cooperation agencies, monoculture tree plantations have been established in Ecuador’s three mainland regions. Through three case...
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Carbon Sink Plantations in the Ecuadorian Andes
Impacts of the Dutch FACE-PROFAFOR monoculture tree plantations’ project on indigenous and peasant communities By Patricia Granda. Joint Research of Acción Ecológica and WRM Carbon Sink Plantations in the Ecuadorian...
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Convention on Climate Change. Privatising the Atmosphere?
The solution to climate change –which is already happening and being suffered by millions of people around the world– is in theory quite simple: to substantially reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon...
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The carbon shop: planting new problems
By Larry Lohmann Even the smallest changes in the earth’s climate have always made a big difference to human societies. When a volcanic eruption in 535 AD brought about slightly cooler, drier weather, the results included...
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Ten replies to ten lies
By Ricardo Carrere, WRM. Planting trees can be very good, but it can also be very bad. It all depends what you’re planting them for, the scale and site of the plantations and the costs or benefits they bring to local populations....
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Tree Plantations: Impacts and Struggles
This book includes a selection of articles published in the World Rainforest Movement’s (WRM) Bulletin on the issue of industrial tree plantations. Given that the aim of most monoculture tree plantations is to produce wood pulp, we...
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News
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The Vitoria Statement in Support of the Struggles of Local Peoples Against Large-Scale Tree Plantations
The following Statement was issued on 24/11/05 in Vitoria, Espirito Santo, Brazil at an international meeting on building support for local communities against large-scale tree plantations and GMO trees. This meeting was co-sponsored by...
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Mount Tamalpais Declaration
San Francisco, May 2000 We, the undersigned non-governmental organizations, wish to express extreme concern about the role envisaged for tree plantations in helping industrialized countries meet their commitments to reduce greenhouse gas...
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Other Relevant Information
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Demand Swedish Energy Agency to suspend future payments to Green Resources and cancel the deal for purchase of carbon credits!
Demand Swedish Energy Agency to suspend future payments to Green Resources and cancel the deal for purchase of carbon credits! The operations of Green Resources—a Norwegian industrial tree plantation and a carbon offsets company—have...
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Paths Beyond Paris: Movements, action and solidarity towards Climate Justice
By Carbon Trade Watch. After over 20 years of international climate change negotiations, talks continue to move further away from identifying the root causes of the climate crisis. These short, sharp articles highlight years of struggle,...
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Nothing Neutral Here: Large-scale biomass subsidies in the UK and the role of the EU ETS
A Carbon Trade Watch report that links the demand for biomass in the UK, the role of the EU’s Emissions Trading System and the destructive expansion of industrial monoculture tree plantations around the world. Available...
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The Carbon Connection – VIDEO
The Carbon Connection, is a Fenceline Films presentation in partnership with the Transnational Institute Environmental Justice Project and Carbon Trade Watch, the Alert Against the Green Desert Movement, FASE-ES, and the Community Training...
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CDM carbon sink tree plantations in Africa: A case study in Tanzania
By Blessing Karumbidza and Wally Menne – The Timberwatch Coalition This study dissects a tree plantation carbon sink project at Idete in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania. The Norwegian company that owns the project, Green Resources...
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Where the Trees are a Desert. Stories from the Ground
By Carbon Trade Watch, TNI/FASE This collaorative brieing gives an insight into the history of monoculture eucalyptus plantations inBrazil and their impacts on local people and the environment. It also explores the new finances made...
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Videos
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Women and Climate Change
Produced by Gender CC, Women for Climate Justice , with the support of the WRM International Secretariat Directed by Flavio Pazos Voice: Lori Nordstrom Based on the work of: Ana Filippini – WRM Andrea Guzmán – CENPROTAC,...
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