
COP 17 in Durban: From pessimism to optimistic signs
What can we expect from the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban? Could it be that at this meeting, the world’s (Read More)
What can we expect from the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Durban? Could it be that at this meeting, the world’s (Read More)
Since time immemorial, human beings have used biomass to produce energy in a sustainable way. In the meantime, industrialization is exhausting the world’s reserves of fossil fuels, leading to the (Read More)
The Swedish state-owned multinational Vattenfall is Europe’s fifth largest energy producer. Its affiliate Vattenfall Europe, based in Berlin, is one of the four biggest companies in the German energy market. (Read More)
A new expansion cycle: carbon and biomass plantations Within the context of Brazil’s efforts to be a global economic power, a report was brought out by the Secretary of Strategic (Read More)
Last month, I was in Bangkok for a meeting about carbon markets in southeast Asia. It was ironic to be discussing a false solution to climate change when large areas of Thailand (Read More)
Next week an international farmers’ conference will take place in Mali to stop land grabbing. Organized by La Via Campesina, it is aimed at opening a space to listen to (Read More)
The state of Acre, in the Brazilian Amazon region, earned worldwide attention in the late 1980s through the struggle for social and environmental justice waged by the late Chico Mendes. (Read More)
The new abstractions created by the climate change discourse in the form of REDD and REDD+ have come to deepen the commodification of forests as greater mobility is created and (Read More)
On last 21 September – the World Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations – the “No REDD Platform”, a coalition of environmental groups and Indigenous peoples organizations, launched a call to (Read More)
On 10 November, indigenous peoples and farmer communities with people’ s organization ALDAW gathered in Brooke’s Point city, in the island of Palawan, to peacefully demonstrate against the visit of (Read More)
In Cambodia, some 200,000 mostly Indigenous Kuy villagers are desperately trying to prevent the destruction of Prey Lang (“Our Forest), the last large primary forest of its kind on the (Read More)
On the first week of November, International Rivers launched an international petition calling on the Prime Ministers of Laos and Thailand to cancel plans to build the Xayaburi Dam. They (Read More)