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• http://www.ienearth.org/international-outcry-against-californias-forest-offset-scam/ May 9, 2013
  From Africa to the Amazon, from Chiapas to Siberia, global civil society is raising an international outcry to resoundingly reject California’s proposed forest offset scam called REDD, which would let climate criminals like Chevron and Shell off the hook, cause human rights abuses and worsen global warming. May 7, 2013, was the last day for public comments o […]
• Alto a la expansión de monocultivos en Brasil, Filipinas y Gabón September 21, 2012
  Entre las demandas planteadas a los gobiernos está la necesidad que tienen los distintos afectados de ser escuchados. Asimismo se encuentran los pedidos para que se investiguen los hechos que involucran violación de los derechos humanos que se han dado desde las empresas contra poblaciones campesinas e indígenas. […]
• Judge in Peru issues warrant for carbon cowboy David Nilsson’s arrest September 20, 2012
  AIDESEP (Inter-Ethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon) reports on its website that a judge of the Criminal Court of Maynas, Loreto in Peru has issued a warrant for David Nilsson’s arrest. […]
• “This project has been a total failure,” says Australian Senator Christine Milne about the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership June 5, 2012
  When it was launched in 2007, Australia’s Kalimantan Forest Carbon Partnership was going to be “practical climate change action that could deliver immediate and tangible benefits”. But five years later, the project has little more to show for the A$30 million spent than 50,000 tree seedlings planted.* That’s 0.05% of the target of 100 million trees. […]
• Disagreement on REDD finance during the “stalemate” climate negotiations in Bonn May 30, 2012
  Last year, emissions of carbon dioxide increased by 3.2% to 31.6 billion tonnes, according to figures released by the International Energy Agency. Faith Birol, IEA’s chief economist told Reuters that, “[T]he trend is perfectly in line with a temperature increase of 6 degrees Celsius (by 2050), which would have devastating consequences for the planet.” You wo […]
• Corruption and REDD: “It is highly unlikely that we will find a country where forms of corruption linked to REDD+ are non-existent" May 23, 2012
  “REDD+ is being promoted and funded in countries where corruption has been, or continues to be, a pivotal factor in the political economy of forest use.” This statement is from a recent briefing by the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Norway […]
• The commodification of forests justifies displacing communities in Chiapas May 22, 2012
  Among the main economic motives for displacing communities from their forest homes is the sale of carbon credits, say civil society groups belonging to the Network for Peace Chiapas (SIPAZ, Desmi, Frayba and others). At COP 16 (Conference of the Parties) in Cancún in December 2010, Mexico entered the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (RED […]