REDD statements
Contact: Tom Goldtooth Tel (USA): (218) 760 – 0442 December 13, 2011 – Indigenous leaders returning from Durban, South Africa condemn the fiasco of the United Nations climate change talks and demand a moratorium on a forest carbon offset scheme called REDD+ which they say threatens the future of humanity and Indigenous Peoples’ very survival. [...]
Read more...Carta del Estado de Acre En defensa de la vida, de la integridad de los pueblos y de sus territorios contra el REDD y la mercantilización de la naturaleza Estuvimos reunidos en Rio Branco – Estado de Acre, entre los días 3 y 7 de octubre de 2011 en el Taller: “Serviços Ambientais, REDD e [...]
Read more...Letter from the State of Acre In defence of life and the integrity of the peoples and their territories against REDD and the commodification of nature We gathered in Rio Branco, in the State of Acre, on 3-7 October 2011 for the workshop “Serviços Ambientais, REDD e Fundos Verdes do BNDES: Salvação da Amazônia ou [...]
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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” [...]
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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 [...]
Read more...This Declaration of Solidarity is a result of the International Conference on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Alternatives and Solutions to the Climate Crisis, held from November 4 to 9, 2010 in Baguio City, the Philippines. The Conference was organized by the Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Land is Life, IBON International, Asia Pacific Indigenous Youth Network and the [...]
Read more...Fuente: NOTAS REBELDES 165-MEXIKO – Foro Internacional de Justicia Climática – 1. Convocados por cientos de organizaciones mexicanas e internacionales de todos los continentes, obreros, campesinos, pueblos indígenas, organizaciones de mujeres, del movimiento urbano popular, ambientalistas, Ong’s, activistas, intelectuales, nos reunimos en Cancún entre el 5 y el 10 de diciembre, simultáneamente a la realización [...]
Read more...For Immediate Release: Dec 11, 2010 Media Contacts: IEN media hotline in Cancun: +52 998 108 0748 (available through Dec 11) Tom Goldtooth in Cancun +52 998 108 0751 (available through Dec 11) Tom Goldtooth (after Dec 12) +1 218-760-0442 Email: ienCop16media@gmail.com ***VIDEO INTERVIEWS AND PHOTOS @ http://pitch.pe/109054 Statement by the Indigenous Environmental Network Cancún [...]
Read more...On this very first day of the sixteenth Conference of Parties (COP16) being held in Cancun, Mexico attended by 192 member states to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), we demand a genuine solution to the climate crisis – Climate Justice. Climate Justice because we believe that the unprecedented global warming that [...]
Read more...Press Release International Indigenous Peoples’ Forum on Climate Change December 1, 2010 (Cancun). Indigenous delegates, representing over 360 million Indigenous Peoples from around all regions of the world, announced a number of minimum requirements for their human rights to be protected in any climate change accords coming out of the current UN Climate Change Conference. [...]
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