By FERN.
Although no progress was made toward a new global climate treaty at the 19th Conference of the Parties (COP19) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in November in Warsaw, decisions were made concerning reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+).
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International Peoples Treaty: "Defending peoples' rights against corporate power".
For immediate release - 3 December 2013.
The No REDD in Africa Network (NRAN) initiated the “Week of Action Against False Solutions”, from October 28 to November 4. The action, joined by the global convergence Reclaim Power! http://reclaimpower.net/, opposes the “dirty energy” and the companies who try to greenwash themselves with false solutions like REDD and other false solutions such as carbon trading, CDM, 'green economy', biodiversity offsets, CCS, geo-engineering and of course the big false solution- 'clean coal'.
In response to the government’s decision to abandon the initiative to leave the oil in the Ishpingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) block beneath Yasuní National Park untapped, and to begin drilling operations, a youth organization called YASunidos has launched a campaign to call for this decision be submitted to a popular consultation, as established by the constitution of Ecuador.
The campaign has met with strong support and given rise to a major mobilization aimed at collecting 600,000 signatures from Ecuadorian citizens in order to demand the popular consultation.
"Bleeding Oil" is a documentary about the ecological disaster in Nigeria caused by global oil corporations.
“To cook a continent”, the oil industry in Africa, by Nnimmo Bassey.
Nnimmo Bassey examines the oil industry in Africa, probes the roots of global warming, warns of its insidious impacts and explores false 'solutions'. His intelligent and wide-ranging approach demonstrates that the issues around natural resource exploitation, corporate profiteering and climate change must be considered together if we are to save ourselves.
The COP19 Guide to Corporate Lobbying. Climate crooks and the Polish government’s partners in crime.
Published by: Corporate Europe Observatory, Transnational Institute
Research and writing: Rachel Tansey, with contributions from Karolina Jankowska, Nina Holland and Belén Balanyá.
“¿Por qué luchar contra el fracking?” (Why fight against fracking?), a video in Spanish with English and French subtitles.
By Nnimmo Bassey
Read the entry on Nnimmo's blog here: http://nnimmo.blogspot.com/2013/11/silence-is-treason-remembering-saro_9.html#!/2013/11/silence-is-treason-remembering-saro_9.html
To coincide with the COP19 UN climate negotiations in Warsaw, Greenpeace has released a short briefing explaining why forests cannot offset fossil fuel emissions.
By Greenpeace, November 2013