Letter sent by the Save the Mekong Coalition, to the Mekong countries Prime Ministers demanding the immediate cancellation of the Don Sahong Dam and moratorium on decisions over other mainstream projects for the overall benefit of people throughout the Mekong region. The Don Sahong Project will irreparably damage the Khone Falls and our mother river the Mekong.
Action alerts
La action concerne le Gabon, et elle porte sur la récente approbation d’un décret (Résolution nº 20/2013 sur le développement durable de la République gabonaise) dont le but est la création d’un marché, national et international, des services écosystémiques. Ce décret permettrait, par exemple, à l’entreprise OLAM de « compenser » la destruction provoquée par ses plantations gigantesques de palmier à huile. La lettre de rejet sera envoyée au président du Gabon.
Throughout the month of September we will continue celebrating resistance to the advance of large-scale industrial tree plantations. This post in particular is about two actions being carried out by local communities that need everyone’s solidarity and support.
Nous continuons en septembre de célébrer la résistance à l’avancée des plantations d’arbres à grande échelle. À présent, nous vous contactons au sujet de deux actions qui ont besoin de la solidarité et de l’appui de nous tous.
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On the occasion of March 21st, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly as International Day of the Forests (1), the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) and more than 300 signatories call on the General Assembly and UN Institutions and Initiatives related to forest issues to use the new initiative to address the underlying drivers of deforestation.
Civil society organizations are denouncing the FSC certification of Fibria Celulose SA monoculture tree plantations by IMAFLORA, a Brazilian certification body. The organization’s demands are aimed at supporting the social and environmental battle carried out by the populations suffering the effects of cellulose plant projects, in this particular case, those by the firm Fibria (formerly Aracruz Celulose).
Humankind faces an environmental, economic, and climate crisis that poses a threat to its survival. Destruction of ecosystems endangers not only communities that directly depend on them, but also the planet as a whole. Power centres have not questioned the production and consumption imperatives that are responsible.
The No REDD Platform has been collecting signatures from all over the world and would like to encourage other groups to support this initiative.
With this letter we aim to alert communities, activists, civil society groups and social movements of the diversion of funding by the international donor community to dubious schemes to “Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and enhance forest carbon stocks” (REDD+), which are being promoted within the framework of the United Nations Climate Convention.