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REDD++ y pueblos indígenas

Sep 18, 2010

Ana de Ita El gobierno mexicano promoverá el Programa de Reducción de Emisiones por Deforestación y Degradación de los Bosques (REDD), en la 16 Conferencia de las Partes del Convenio Marco de Naciones Unidas para el Cambio Climático (COP16), que se realizará en Cancún a finales de noviembre y principios de diciembre. Las más de [...]

“Our forest is not for sale!” NGO statement on REDD in Nigeria

Sep 1, 2010

By Chris Lang, 1st September 2010 On 18 August 2010, Environmental Rights Action (Friends of the Earth Nigeria, the country’s leading environment group) organised a meeting on REDD in Nigeria, together with the Rainforest Research Development and GREENCODE. The meeting produced a statement, signed by 18 NGOs. “Forests and REDD must be out of carbon [...]

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On the experience of Bolivians of climate change: “It causes me a lot of a pain as President to listen to my brothers and sisters talking about permanent droughts... Without water, there is no production, and without production we lack food. It may be easy for us here in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger. I feel that many delegates here have no idea what it is like to be a victim of climate change.” - President Evo Morales at the UNFCC Meeting in Cancun, 9 December

Browsing Month 'September, 2010'

REDD++ y pueblos indígenas

“Our forest is not for sale!” NGO statement on REDD in Nigeria

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