Plantations as sinks: the carbon fraud at its worst
While for the majority of humanity climate change spells disaster, a few corporate-minded people perceive it as a good business opportunity. The way they see it, climate change is about (Read More)
OUR VIEWPOINT
MARKETING THE CLIMATE
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Brazil: Plantar’s ‘new’ eucalyptus projects advance towards CDM validation
In mid-July the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Executive Board accepted a new methodology proposed as part of the controversial Plantar project in Minas Gerais, Brazil (see background on Plantar on (Read More)
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Ecuador: Statement by the indigenous peoples against forest/REDD CO2lonialism
The inclusion of forests on the carbon market in its REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries) format was adopted by the United Nations System through (Read More)
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Uganda: Carbon sink plantation – where trees are more important than people
The UK-based New Forests Company is establishing tree plantations in Uganda, Mozambique and Tanzania. The company states that “Whilst based on commercial forestry economics, our projects are underwritten by carbon (Read More)
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Destroying with one hand, taking with the other: Biomass, REDD and forests
Forests are big news these days. Preventing deforestation will help us address climate change (at least if the carbon stored in the forests isn’t traded, allowing emissions to continue elsewhere). (Read More)
COMMUNITIES AND FORESTS
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Argentina: Wichi and Guarani women raise their voices against deforestation linked to soybean expansion
According to a research paper produced by Daniel Slutzky from the Conicet Centre for Urban and Regional Studies quoted by journalist Claudio Scaletta (1), in the Province of Salta “until (Read More)
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Burma: The looming social and environmental disaster of the Tasang dam
Keng Kham is a community located along the Pang River, that flows down from the mountain and into the Salween River in southern Shan State of Burma. The community had an (Read More)
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Kenya: Projected sugar cane plantations may wipe out invaluable Tana River Delta
The Tana River Delta is one of the most important wetlands in Africa and among the largest and most important freshwater wetland systems of Kenya. It covers an area of (Read More)
COMMUNITIES AND TREE MONOCULTURES
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FSC’s greenwashing of tree monocultures: Evidence provided by the Brazilian Pulp and Paper Industry itself
For over a decade, the World Rainforest Movement has been denouncing that -by certifying large scale tree plantations- the FSC is greenwashing the destructive activities of plantation companies in Southern (Read More)
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Indonesia: Indigenous Peoples oppose acacia plantations on their customary lands
The indigenous people of Teluk Meranti in the Kampar Peninsula, Riau, Sumatra, are resisting efforts by a pulp and paper company to take over their customary lands. The pulpwood plantation (Read More)
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Indonesia: Call for suspension of World Bank (IFC) lending to oil palm
An internal audit has revealed that the World Bank’s private sector arm – the International Finance Corporation (IFC) – has allowed commercial interests to override its social and environmental standards (Read More)
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Malaysia: Indigenous Peoples call for a moratorium on large-scale tree plantations
On the World Indigenous Peoples Day – 9th August 2009 – the Malaysian Indigenous Peoples Organisations Coalition called on for Malaysian State governments “to stop large-scale plantations and other extractive (Read More)
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Meeting of the Latin American network against monoculture tree plantations
On 1 August 2009, members of the Latin American Network against Monoculture Tree Plantations (RECOMA) met in the locality of Villa Serrana, Uruguay, to examine the reasons for the alarming (Read More)