REDD in Brazil: Irish carbon trader Celestial Green and Munduruku People

Mar 14, 2012

Irish carbon trading company, Celestial Green,  claims 17 million hectares of the Amazon  - the size of Switerland and Austria. The Munduruku People are divided and protest, threaten carbon trader with arrow to the heart… A empresa,Celestial Green, segundo seu site, já tem 17 MILHÕES de hectares contratados na Amazônia brasileira para créditos de carbono… Matéria da [...]

REDD: la codicia por los árboles

Feb 28, 2012

El Caso Chiapas: la Selva Lacandona al mejor postor Producido por Otros Mundos AC/Amigos de la Tierra México Con el apoyo de Amigos de la Tierra Internacional, Fundación Siemenpuu y Global Justice Ecology Proyect Licencia Creative Commons Realización colectiva a cargo de Domingo M. Lechón, Ángel Galán, Néstor Giménez y Jesica Ciacci DESCARGAR AQUÍ (697.87 [...]

MERCADOS DE CARBONO – La neoliberalización del clima

Feb 28, 2012

A modo de prólogo Entre las formas de vida contactadas con la naturaleza y aquellas contactadas con el capital Esperanza Martínez* Alberto Acosta ** Montecristi: una Constituyente renovadora y revolucionaria Cuando parecían agotarse los espacios físi­cos colonizables, la Naturaleza y sus funciones se están convirtiendo en objeto de exóticos meca­nismos de prosperidad del capital, reproducien­do [...]

Video: A Darker Shade of Green–New GJEP/ GFC Video on REDD Released

Feb 28, 2012

New Video Reveals Global Resistance to Forest-Carbon Projects and Documents Critical Perspectives on REDD (video y boletín en español debajo) A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests (Instructions for requesting a DVD of the new REDD video, which includes two bonus features, can be found here.) Global Forest Coalition and [...]

Environmental Groups Denounce Diversion of Forest Funding to REDD Plantations

Sep 21, 2011

21 September 2011 – On the World Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations [1], a coalition of environmental groups and Indigenous peoples organizations [2] has launched a call to the international donor community to halt the diversion of forest conservation funding to dubious schemes to “Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and enhance forest carbon stocks” [...]

Grupos Ambientalistas Denuncian la Desviación de Fondos Destinados a los Bosques hacia Plantaciones REDD

Sep 21, 2011

21 Septiembre, 2011 – En el Día Mundial de Lucha Contra los Monocultivos de Arboles [1], una coalición de grupos ambientalistas y organizaciones de Pueblos Indígenas [2] ha lanzado un comunicado a la comunidad donante internacional  para detener la desviación de fondos para la conservación de los bosques hacia esquemas dudosos para “Reducir Emisiones de Deforestación [...]

Please sign letter for threatened Indigenous leader in Guyana

Dec 17, 2010

December 16th, 2010 Request sent from Amazon Watch Deadline for sign-ons: Friday, December 17, noon (NY time) Dear all, Many of us have come to know Tony James, the President of the Amerindian Peoples Association in Guyana, over the years. He has been very active in defending indigenous rights, and more recently, on issues around [...]

Cancun Agreement stripped bare by Bolivia’s dissent

Dec 17, 2010

Nick Buxton December 2010 Bolivia was not an obstacle to progress at Cancun’s climate talks. It was rather the only nation daring enough to tell the truth. In the famous Hans Christian Anderson fable, The Emperor’s New Clothes, a weaver famously plays on an emperor’s arrogance and persuades him to wear a non-existent suit with [...]

Lives of the Forest

Dec 14, 2010

This film was made during a participatory video facilitator training in Ifugao, Philippines. The trainee facilitators, representing 15 distinct indigenous communities from 8 different countries, created this short film exploring their perspectives and shared positions on the controversial subject of the REDD programme. For more information about participatory video, please visit the InsightShare website – [...]

‘Climate capitalism’ won at Cancun – everyone else loses

Dec 14, 2010

Protest in Cancun. By Patrick Bond, Cancun, Mexico December 12, 2010 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal – The December 11 closure of the 16th Conference of the Parties – COP16 global climate summit – in balmy Cancun was portrayed by most participants and mainstream journalists as a victory, a “step forward”. Bragged US [...]

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