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)
OUR VIEWPOINT
CLIMATE BUSINESS
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Climate change, supposedly renewable energy and biomass
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)
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Liberia: The case of Vattenfall – African timber to save the climate in Germany?
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)
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The new trend of biomass plantations in Brazil: tree monocultures
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)
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CDM does not reduce emissions. Leaving fossil fuels in the ground does
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)
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False solutions to climate change enabling land grabbing in Africa
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)
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Brazil – Behind the Greenwashing: The commodification of forests and impacts on local communities in the state of Acre
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)
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India: Forests and tree plantations under carbon offset schemes
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)
PEOPLE IN ACTION
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Call to donors to halt funding REDD+ projects
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)
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Philippines: Rally to stop Chinese mining in Palawan!
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)
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Help Kuy People of Cambodia to Save their forest
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)
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Mekong: International petition against the Xayaburi Dam
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)