Issue 169 – August 2011

OUR VIEWPOINT

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  REDD+: Can it be “fixed”?

  Over the last five or six years, forests have once again earned a prominent place on the international agenda. But this renewed emphasis has emerged in a very particular way:
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REDD MENACE THREATENS LOCAL COMMUNITIES

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  The ‘sins’ of the REDD+ approach

  The world has been caught in a severe climate crisis as a result of the dramatic increase of antrophogenic (namely, caused by human beings) gases in the atmosphere causing a
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  The Conservation International REDD pilot project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – a very different kind of Walt Disney production

  In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Conservation International (CI) is promoting a REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) pilot project financed by the Walt Disney media and
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  Forest carbon project in Paraná, Brazil: Reduction of deforestation and persecution of local communities

  In 1999, a number of years before the emergence of REDD, one of the world’s first forest carbon projects was launched. A joint initiative of Brazilian NGO Sociedade de Pesquisa em
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DEFINING FORESTS

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  Towards September 21

  As September 21, the International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, draws ever closer, we continue to collect reflections, experiences and testimonies that capture the prodigious life of forests, so utterly
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