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- How climate change has got Worldwide Fund for Nature bamboozled May 7, 2012Christopher Booker (Telegraph) 7:00PM BST 05 May 2012 WWF has travelled too far from its original aim, to protect endangered species. What a strange body the WWF (formerly the World Wildlife Fund, now the Worldwide Fund for Nature) has become these days. It is the largest, richest and most influential environmental lobbying organisation in the world. Origina […]
- U.S. gobbling illegal wood from Peru's Amazon rainforest May 1, 2012The next time you buy wood, you may want to make sure it's not from Peru. According to an in-depth new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), the illegal logging trade is booming in the Peruvian Amazon and much of the wood is being exported to the U.S. Following the labyrinthian trail of illegal logging from the devastated forests of th […]
- NGOs demand that Forest Investment Program in Indonesia is postponed until demands are met April 11, 2012On 8 March 2012, the World Bank announced that the Draft Indonesia Forest Investment Plan was posted on the Ministry of Forestry’s website. The 114-page document was posted in English, with a comment period of “a little over two weeks”. An Indonesian version has now been produced and is available on the Ministry of Forestry website. But the commenting proces […]
- Nature: the inconvenient truth of carbon offsets April 5, 2012The organizers of the Planet Under Pressure conference in London said that the event would be “as close to carbon neutral as possible”. There are good ways to achieve this noble goal: virtual engagement such as video conferencing, advice on lower-carbon travel options, and innovative registration tariffs to reward lower-carbon involvement. But, instead, the […]
- Two more reasons why REDD as a carbon trading mechanism makes no sense April 5, 2012Carbon prices in Europe have crashed. Again. The most recent fall is a result of falling greenhouse gas emissions in Europe. In 2011, emissions fell by 2.45%. When the European Commission announced the reduction in emissions, the EU carbon price fell by 14%. […]
- Norway: spending far more on rainforest destruction than rainforest protection April 2, 2012The Norwegian government keeps increasing its investments in industries widely known to be key forces behind rainforest destruction. At the same time as spending an annual 500 million USD and huge political capital on rainforest protection, Norway invests some 13,7 billion dollars in industries destroying it. Through its Pension Fund (Government Pension Fund […]
- Brazil: Munduruku chief clarifies REDD contract farse with Celestial Green Ventures March 28, 2012It created waves of headlines around the world when the Munduruku, an indigenous nation of approximately 13000 living in the state Para, Brazil, signed a carbon credit sales contract (REDD) with Celestial Green Ventures. […]
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Ilya Gridneff in Port Moresby June 13, 2009 PAPUA NEW GUINEAN landowners are being ripped off by conmen travelling village to village offering fake carbon trading deals and promising big returns from “sky money”. The crude carbon trading racket has duped at least 500 villagers since late last year around Popondetta, Oro province, on the [...]
Read more...Ilya Gridneff en Port Moresby – Australian Associated Press (Traducción No-Oficial) 13 de Junio, 2009 Unos estafadores están robando a la gente de las comunidades de Papua Nueva Guinea, viajando a las aldeas a ofrecer falsos contratos del comercio de carbono y prometiendo grandes ganancias del “dinero del cielo”. Desde finales del año pasado, este [...]
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Del 20 al 24 de Abril del 2009, representantes indígenas del Ártico, América del Norte, Asia, el Pacífico, Latinoamérica, el Caribe y Rusia se reunieron en Anchorage, Alaska para la Cumbre Mundial de Pueblos Indígenas sobre Cambio Climático. Agradecemos a los pueblos Ahtna y Nena’ina Athabascan, en cuyos territorios nos congregamos. Expresamos nuestra solidaridad con [...]
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Thursday, Dec. 04, 2008 By BRYAN WALSH Right now in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, a day’s drive over rutted tracks northeast of the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, they’re counting the trees. Members of nearby indigenous communities, with help from the Bolivian green group Friends of Nature Foundation (FAN) and the American nonprofit the [...]
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Especial para Huntingtonnews.net (Traducción no-oficial) 29 de septiembre de 2008 Nueva York, NY (HNN) – En el tercer día de la 63a reunión de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas, el Secretario General Ban Ki-moon y el Primer Ministro de Noruega pusieron en marcha el Programa ONU-REDD, una colaboración de la FAO, el PNUD, [...]
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