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The majority of the tools for mitigating climate change, both within the US and globally, focus on carbon pricing and carbon counting, and continue to exploit people and communities most impacted by climate change, while providing special favors to the very fossil fuel and agricultural industry corporations most responsible for climate change.
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Comments to the California Air Resources Board
The Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) joins with the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) comments on the failure of the Draft Environmental Analysis (EA) included in the California Tropical Forest Standard (CTFS). The EA does not meet the requirement of the California Environmental Quality Act. On this ground alone we would recommend to the California Air Resources Board (the Board) not approve the CTFS.The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) emphasized that emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) must fall by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 and reach “net zero” by 2040. Otherwise our Mother Earth will only get hotter faster.[1] Uncontrolled forest fires will become more frequent and more destructive at a faster rate. Throughout the world, extreme heat waves and drought will only worsen. Violent storms will grow more frequent and more intense. Click here to READ ALL
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The coming tragedy of Paris: A disastrous climate deal that will see the planet burn
Monday October 5th, 2015 | Originally Posted in Global Forest Coalition By: Mary Louise Malig* Like reading the ancient Greek tragedy of Homer, we are at the pages of the Iliad where we can see what hell ahead shall befall Troy. We are now in that exact moment, seeing...
What do the criticism of the Pope’s encyclical by carbon market and REDD proponents reveal?
Originally posted on Aug 10, 2015. In World Forest Movement The new Pope Francis’ “Laudato Sí” encyclical addressing the ecological crisis, particularly the climate crisis, has been much discussed in the last month. It is uncommon to see so many organizations and...
Will Paris save the climate? Of course it won’t
By Chris Lang9 July 2015 “U.N. climate deal in Paris may be graveyard for 2C goal,” is the headline of a recent Reuters article, which points out that the chances of keeping global warming below 2°C are rapidly disappearing. The article includes a quotation from...
Genetically engineered eucalyptus trees approved in Brazil. How long before we see GE tree monocultures in REDD?
On 9 April 2015, the Brazilian Technical Commission on Biosafety (CTNBio) approved the commercial use of genetically engineered eucalyptus trees. This is the first approval of GE trees in Latin America. The application came from FuturaGene, a subsidiary of pulp and...
To reject REDD+ and extractive industries to confront capitalism and defend life and territories
Due to the UN climate negotiations -COP20- and the Peoples’ Summit on Climate Change, held in Lima, Peru, in December 2014, over 100 organizations and social movements made a Call to Action to strongly and collectively reject REDD+ and the ‘environmental services’ –...
The Rio de Janeiro Green Exchange (BVRio): Trading away Brazil’s forests
By Chris Lang Founded in October 2011, the Rio de Janeiro Green Exchange (Bolsa Verde do Rio de Janeiro, BVRio) is a market for trading “environmental assets”, including carbon credits, forest credits, industrial effluent credits, tire disposal credits, and recycling...
Safeguarding Investment: Safeguards for REDD+, women and indigenous peoples
Originally posted on Mar 10, 2015 in World Forest Movement The meaning of the term “safeguards” depends on who uses it and in what context. It may imply positive action in terms of human rights or the environment, or it may simply be a rhetorical flourish aimed at...
The great REDD gamble. Time to ditch risky REDD for community-based approaches that are effective, ethical and equitable.
A Friends of the Earth report looks at specific case studies which demonstrate that REDD projects can facilitate rather than prevent the continued use of fossil fuels; exacerbate tensions over land and resource rights; have significant negative impacts on...
WTO Protesters Denounce REDD Rice
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 6, 2013 Reject carbon trading with food Contacts: Indra Lubis, Via Campesina, SPI, +6281266660561 (Bahasa and English) Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network, +62 812 3724 2271 – Indonesia + 1 218 760 0442 - USA Denpasar,...
Indigenous Peoples Bring Concerns to
Impacts of AB 32
by Govinda Dalton Wednesday Oct 17th, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 17, 2012 CONTACT: Michelle Chan, Friends of the Earth, 202 427 3000 California’s Global Warming Trading Scheme Could Endanger Indigenous Forest Peoples International Delegation Warns Against...
Kari-Oca II Declaration: Indigenous Peoples at Rio +20 reject the Green Economy and REDD
By Chris Lang of REDD Monitor In 1992, while the first Rio Earth Summit took place, hundreds of indigenous peoples met and produced the Kari-Oca Declaration and the Indigenous Peoples Earth Charter. 20 years later, in parallel with Rio +20 meeting, more than five...
NO REDD+! in RIO +20: A Declaration to Decolonize the Earth and the Sky
By Chris Lang of Redd-Monitor.org Last week, the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Climate Change against REDD and for Life held a press conference denouncing REDD and the green economy. The press conference was part of the People’s...
OECD opens investigation into WWF in world first
In an unprecedented move, a member of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has agreed to investigate a complaint that the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has funded human rights abuses in Cameroon, beginning a process which until now has only been used for multinational businesses.
Norway’s failed REDD experiment in Tanzania
Norway launched REDD in Tanzania in 2008, with a promise to fund US$83 million over a five year period. But in a recent article in Development Today, Jens Friis Lund, Mathew Bukhi Mabele and Susanne Koch argue that Norway’s involvement in REDD in Tanzania “failed to...
TAMS: Failed experiments with carbon in Madagascar
Once hailed as a pilot carbon project for the whole of Africa, by the time this video was made, in 2010, TAMS was at a halt and would never resume. In its wake it left unfulfilled promises of forest restoration, work and revenue. Andasibe did indeed become a test site for carbon projects, but the results have not been as widespread as its original promises.
Governor Ayade’s Contradictions on REDD in Cross River State, Nigeria
This week, Benedict Bengioushuye Ayade, the governor of Nigeria’s Cross River State, will be in Guadalajara, Mexico taking part in the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force Annual Meeting. The aim of the GCF is to link states and provinces running REDD programmes with carbon markets in the rich countries. But before getting carried away with the REDD promotion tour in Guadalajara, it’s worth taking a quick look at Ayade’s record so far in Cross River State.
Beyond Cap-and-Trade: Many Environmentalists Say California Will Improve Climate Policy If It Reduces Emissions at Source
Gov. Jerry Brown has so far been unable to muster two-thirds of state legislators to vote to extend the program beyond its current 2020 expiration. By Will Parrish Environmentalists say cap-and-trade doesn't cut enough emissions in the East Bay. California's...
Calif. Carbon Plan Puts Rainforest Credits Down, Not Out
By Juan Carlos Rodriguez Law360, New York (July 19, 2016, 9:53 PM ET) California air regulators said last week that the Golden State's carbon trading program won't allow companies to buy credits generated from the preservation of Mexican and Brazilian rain forests to...
Trading on Thin Air: Fictive REDD+ Carbon Chaos in the World’s Forests
The United Nations’ disastrous REDD+ offset program has hit the ground internationally. Its potential adoption by the California Air Resources Board will only make things worse. Luan F. Makes Marks, Ph.D. The Basics Some state, national, and international governments,...
Decision on REDD in California postponed – for a couple of months
Yesterday, California’s Air Resources Board released a preliminary draft of proposed amendments to its Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) aimed at extending the cap and trade scheme beyond 2020. The big news for REDD watchers is that the ARB’s preliminary draft...
The virtual economy of REDD: Conflicts of interest, hot air, and dodgy baselines
In order for REDD projects to generate carbon credits, a “baseline scenario” has to be created. This is supposed to reflect what would have happened under business-as-usual, or what would have happened in the absence of the REDD project. The baseline is also necessary to show that the REDD project is additional, that the reduced emissions would not have happened without the project.
Greenpeace opposes REDD offsets in California. But that’s not what EDF’s Steve Schwartzman wants you to think
by Chris Lang - REDD Monitor At a recent workshop in Sacramento, Environmental Defense Fund’s Steve Schwartzman was waving around copies of a letter in favour of California using REDD offsets in its cap and trade scheme. Following the letter was a list of NGO logos,...
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