World Rainforest Movement
No one in their right mind can accuse President George W. Bush of overly concerning himself with climate change. In this respect, his curriculum is spotless and both his unreserved (Read More)
The problem of the loss of territories by peasants and indigenous peoples in favour of industrial projects has several aspects in Brazil and the Landless Peasant’s Movement (MST) has been (Read More)
Southern Cameroon is red and green. Green like the forest of the Congo basin that breathes and has a heartbeat and that offers its inhabitants the biotic resources necessary to (Read More)
The Ministry of the Environment is placing Ecuador’s indigenous territories in danger. Under a new term, that of “co-management” it intends to hand over our ancestral territories and their natural (Read More)
Like State governments in many other parts of India, the government of Jharkhand State is planning large-scale industrial expansion across the entire region in the name of “development” and “poverty (Read More)
We had already shared (see WRM’s bulletin Nº 111) what the ‘Operation Climate Change’ — launched on January 1, 1999 — did in the Niger Delta: activists shut down oil (Read More)
Monoculture eucalyptus plantations are advancing over vast areas of the country, occupying traditional peoples’ territories, displacing them, evicting people from rural areas, thus contributing to the creation of poverty belts, (Read More)
Loss of land and loss of access to natural resources is fuelling a livelihood and economic crisis among Cambodia’s rural communities. “People are being dispossessed from their lands by those (Read More)
Last December I was travelling with three friends (a Cameroonian and a Swiss couple) along the public route that crosses the oil palm plantations belonging to Socapalm (Société Camerounaise des (Read More)
The Peoples’ Permanent Tribunal – Colombian Chapter met on 26 and 27 February 2007 in Lower Atrato to bring to trial transnational companies focusing on the issue of biodiversity and (Read More)
Sappi’s plantations in Swaziland are the epitome of what is wrong with industrial tree plantations. More than fifty years of living with plantations has done less than nothing to develop (Read More)
“During our time together, we heard directly from local community representatives from twelve provinces in Cambodia and also from other countries in the region about how their lives, livelihoods and (Read More)
Ethanol is a biofuel usually made from maize (corn) or sugar cane, which is being enthusiastically promoted as an alternative fuel which can be blended into ordinary petrol or burned (Read More)
The present energy matrix is basically compounded by oil (35%), coal (23%) and natural gas (21%). The nations of the OECD — the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development — (Read More)
If we want to curb climate change, carbon trading won’t do. In 1992, an infamous leaked memo from Lawrence Summers, who was at the time Chief Economist of the World (Read More)
