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• Why we should continue to oppose the inclusion of agriculture in the climate negotiations February 22, 2012
  Agriculture has not so far featured prominently in the climate negotiations. Agribusiness and their political supporters have long wanted to see a much greater role for agriculture and, in particular, the ability to profit far more from carbon finance than they have so far been allowed. This article offers an analysis of the links between agriculture, forest […]
• Political Risk Cover for Private Equity Funds Launched February 7, 2012
  "OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Company, the US government’s development finance institution) is developing insurance products for the renewable resources sector, specifically to protect investors against a government’s change in the feed-in tariff that the investor has relied upon to structure its project; and to cover investment in forestry project […]
• Mexico and U.S. Sign Technical Collaboration Agreement on Sustainability and Climate Change Through 2016 February 7, 2012
  Mexico and the United States of America recently signed a Technical Collaboration Agreement on Sustainability and Climate Change. Through this Agreement, both nations will implement the Binational Cooperation Program of Climate Change Towards 2016 which represents an investment of nearly US$70 million to be utilized in the next five years. […]
• African land grabs hinder sustainable development : Nature News & Comment February 7, 2012
  Of the 203 million hectares of land deals reported worldwide between 2000 and 20101, two-thirds were in Africa. The acquisitions are dispossessing millions of Africans of their land, to make way for expansive forestry and mineral projects and plantations, say a series of briefs and a report published by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI), an internati […]
• Indigenous communities in Peru condemn the further adventures of an Australian carbon cowboy February 7, 2012
  In November 2011, reports came out of Peru that a company called CISSA (Conservación e Inclusion Social Sostenible en la Amazonía) had signed an agreement for timber operations and carbon credits with communities of the Ampiyacu River Basin in Peru. CISSA appears not to be registered on the public register in Peru. In fact, another company, also registered i […]
• Kenya's Samburu people 'violently evicted' after US charities buy land December 17, 2011
  Members of the Samburu people in Kenya have been abused, beaten and raped by police after the land they lived on for two decades was sold to two US-based wildlife charities, a rights group and community leader have alleged. The groups subsequently gifted the land to Kenya for a national park, to be called Laikipia National Park. […]
• La Via Campesina Declaration in Durban December 7, 2011
  As the Assembly of the Oppressed we are gathered here to demand the transformation of the entire neo liberal capitalist system. The fight against climate change is a fight against neoliberal capitalism, landlessness, dispossession, hunger, poverty and the re-colonization of the territories of the people’s of Africa and the global South. We are here to declar […]