What is the biggest REDD+ contradiction?
For almost ten years, a group of banks, corporations, governments and NGOs have been attempting to show the world that REDD+ is a good mechanism for combating climate change. (Read More)
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CLIMATE COP IN PERU: MORE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR GLOBAL POLLUTERS
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Masking the Destruction: REDD+ in the Peruvian Amazon
For almost 20 years, the United Nations climate negotiations have promoted the carbon market as the flagship ‘solution’ for climate change. However, this market allows corporations and governments to (Read More)
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Thailand’s New ‘Forestry Master Plan’: Same old strategy dressed up in new clothes
On 31 July 2014, the ‘Forestry Master Plan’ (FMP) was issued by Thailand’s Internal Security Operations Command and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. There was no (Read More)
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Why are women fighting against extractivism and climate change?
It is obvious that capitalism feeds on and is sustained by the exploitation of workers, women, indigenous peoples and nature. And, while it was believed that women’s bodies were the (Read More)
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DRC: handing lands for industrial oil palm plantations, REDD and foreign investors
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has the largest continuous rainforest area in Africa, which is one of the largest in the world. However, its high biological diversity, including humid, (Read More)
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REDD: A Gallery of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies
This publication summarizes the problems identified in 14 REDD projects based on published field reports. All of the cases reveal a series of structural characteristics that undermine the rights of (Read More)
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‘Blue Carbon’ and ‘Blue REDD’: Transforming coastal ecosystems into merchandise
This briefing addresses the promotion of ‘Blue Carbon’ initiatives, also known as ‘Blue REDD’, a new trend focused on trading the ‘stored’ carbon on marine and coastal territories, especially mangrove (Read More)
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REDD moves from forests to landscapes: More of the same, just bigger and with bigger risk to cause harm
This publication addresses a new version of REDD, known as ‘Landscape REDD’, which is just as much of a false solution to climate change as the original version. Landscape REDD (Read More)
PEOPLES IN ACTION
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Cameroon: WWF complicit in tribal people’s abuse
The NGO Survival International uncovered serious abuses of Baka “Pygmies” in southeast Cameroon, at the hands of anti-poaching squads supported and funded by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). (Read More)
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Peru: The Matsés, last shamans of the Amazon rainforest, fight back against transnational oil company
The Matsés indigenous people are fighting back to stop Pacific Rubiales Energy, a Canadian oil and gas company, from destroying their territory and endangering their lives and forests. One of (Read More)
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India plans huge palm oil expansion, puts forests at risk
While Malaysia and Indonesia produce over 85% of the world’s palm oil, India is its largest importer. To boost palm cultivation, the Ministry of Agriculture introduced a Special Program on (Read More)
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December 3: International Day Against Pesticide Use
The date was chosen by the Pesticide Action Network to commemorate the 30,000 people killed as a result of the Bhopal disaster in India in 1984, when 27 tons of (Read More)
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Gendering Peasant Movements, Gendering Food Sovereignty
A problem peasant women face is invisibility in the feminist and women’s movements. A second problem is the weakness with which the food sovereignty concept has dealt with the challenges (Read More)
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Brazil: Federal Prosecutor’s Office upholds injunction barring BNDES financing for Fibria Celulose, a company certified by the FSC
The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (Ministério Público Federal or MPF) of Brazil has ruled to suspend financing from the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) to Fibria, the country’s largest pulp and (Read More)
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Carbon violence: the impacts of Green Resources’ carbon plantation in Uganda
A new report by the Oakland Institute introduces the term ‘carbon violence’ to describe the impact of Green Resources’ plantation operations in Uganda on local communities and their environment. Green (Read More)
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The great REDD gamble. Time to ditch risky REDD for community-based approaches that are effective, ethical and equitable.
A Friends of the Earth report looks at specific case studies which demonstrate that REDD projects can facilitate rather than prevent the continued use of fossil fuels; exacerbate tensions over (Read More)
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World Cup carbon emissions ‘offset’ by hydroelectric dams in the Amazon?
An article by Brazilian organizations FASE Amazonía, Grupo Carta de Belém and Fórum de la Amazonía Oriental, published by the newspaper “Aldeia”, challenges the myth – rooted in the carbon (Read More)
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Keeping Land Local: Reclaiming Governance from the Market
Through a series of articles, this report, from the organization Focus on the Global South, denounces how land, forests and water are being captured and enclosed for a range of (Read More)
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Peru: Our Fight, indigenous peoples defending their territories
The video from “If Not Us Then Who?” follows the aftermath of the murders of four indigenous leaders and activists, including Edwin Chota, in Peru. Through their widows and friends (Read More)
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Brazil: Large landholders, the main cause of deforestation in the Amazon
A study conducted by the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) of Sweden reveals that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, which had been curbed for almost a decade, began to increase again (Read More)