¡Alto a REDD de California!

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Hermanos y Hermanas,

Por favor firmen esta petición para ponerle un Alto a REDD en California en Chiapas y la Amazonia que es el modelo para implementar REDD en todo el mundo.

Participen en esta lucha histórica y rechacen REDD (Reducción de Emisiones por Deforestación y Degradación forestal), esta falsa solución al cambio climático que despoja nuestras tierras y territorios. REDD es malo para la Pachamama y malo para los Pueblos y que en realidad no protege los bosques.

¡Alto a REDD de California! ¡Alto a REDD en todo el mundo!

¡FIRMA AHORA!

FECHA LIMITE 7 de mayo a mediodía

Durban Declaration on REDD

Durban Declaration on REDD 2015 | Sept 9, 2015

We, local communities, peasants movements, Indigenous Peoples and civil society organizations from Africa and all over the world, call upon the United Nations, the World Forestry Congress, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Bank and states to reject top-down forms of development, including false solutions to climate change and forest and biodiversity conservation that only serve the dominant market economy.

We are united to oppose and reject the commodification, privatization and plunder of Nature, which include REDD+[1] and other market-based mechanisms including biodiversity and conservation offsets that put profit above the well being of humanity and the planet.

These mechanisms include the “financialization of nature,” which commodifies, separates and quantifies the Earth’s cycles and functions of carbon, water, forest, fauna and biodiversity – turning them into “units” to be sold in financial and speculative markets. However, Mother Earth is the source of Life, which needs to be protected, not a resource to be exploited and commodified as a ‘natural capital.’

REDD+ is also the pillar of the Green Economy. REDD+ is being misleadingly billed as saving the world’s forests and climate and is the anticipated main outcome of the UN’s Paris Accord on climate change in December 2015. In addition, REDD+ is a false solution to climate change that is already including forests, plantations and agriculture in the carbon market.

Reports show that deforestation and the related emissions continue, and that REDD+, instead of reducing them, is harming and vilifying forest-dependent communities and those who produce the majority of the world’s food – small scale farmers. Furthermore,

REDD+ promotes monoculture tree plantations and genetically modified trees
REDD+ increases land grabs and human rights violations
REDD+ restricts access to forests, threatening livelihoods and cultural practices
REDD+ causes violence against peasants, Indigenous Peoples, women and forest-dwelling communities
REDD+ is combined with other offsets including payment for environmental services (PES)
REDD+ imposes market driven neo-liberalism on forests, which undermines and monetizes community conservation and social/cultural processes and creates inequalities
REDD+ projects tend to force subsistence communities into the cash economy and exploitative wage-labor
REDD+ hinders and prevents much needed policies that support endogenous, bio-cultural approaches to biodiversity conservation and

Therefore, we join with the No REDD in Africa Network and the Global Alliance against REDD to demand that governments, the United Nations and financial institutions stop the disastrous REDD+ experiment and finally start addressing the underlying causes of forest loss and climate change!

Put forward by the No REDD in Africa Network (NRAN) and the Global Alliance Against REDD, with endorsement and support by the following. To be presented to the World Forest Congress 2015, the UNFCCC COP21 and beyond:

Organizations:

No REDD in Africa Network
Global Alliance Against REDD
Indigenous Environmental Network
JA!/Justica Ambiental – Friends of the Earth Mozambique
All India Forum of Forest Movements/India
Carbon Trade Watch
CENSAT Agua Viva – Friends of the Earth Colombia
Womin (Womens in Mining)
Foundation Help/Tanzania
Centre for Civil Society/University of KwaZulu-Natal,Durban
Democratic Left Front
Health of Mother Earth Foundation- Nigeria
Fundaexpresion – Colombia
Vasundhara- India
SRDS Subdarban -India
Envirocare-Tanzania
COECOCEIBA – FoE Costa Rica
The Development Institute – Ghana
Censat Agua Viva – Amigos da Terra Colombia
Afrikagrupperna , Sweeden
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (US)
Just Transition Alliance,  United States
Border Agricultural Workers Project Border, El Paso, Texas
The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
Hasan Mehedi
CLEAN (Coastal Livelihood and Environmental Action Network)
Khulna, Bangladesh
ETC group (international)
Oakland Institute, USA
Community Alliance for Global Justice, Seattle WA
Family Farm Defenders
Indian Social Action Forum – INSAF
All India Union of Forest Working People AIUFWP
WILPF US Section, Boston MA
Geasphere
Leave it in the Ground Initiative (LINGO)
Indigenous Perspectives-India
Global Justice Ecology ProjectAnuradha Mittal,
Hasan Mehedi
CLEAN (Coastal Livelihood and Environmental Action Network)
Khulna, Bangladesh
Biowatch South
Timberwatch
Ashok Choudhary, General Secretary, All India Union of Forest Working People AIUFWP
Focus on the Global South
The Corner House (UK)
Friends of the Earth International
PLANT (Partners for the Land & Agricultural Needs of Traditional Peoples)
Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria
Attac France
FoE France
Andrey Laletin, Chairman,
Friends of the Siberian Forests,Russia.
Indigenous Perspectives-India
EcoNexus UK
Biofuelwatch
Maendeleo Endelevu Action Program (MEAP)
Fundación Solon
WRM (World Rainforest Movement)
Groundwork
FOEAfrica
TCOE ( Trust for Community Outreach and Education) South
Rural Women’s Assembly (Southern Africa)
People’s’s DialogueInternational
Development Exchange (IDEX)
Marea Creciente Mexico – Rising Tide Mexico
Marea Creciente Ecuador – Rising Tide Ecuador
Caravana Climatica por America Latina
Center for Earth Jurisprudence
Other Worlds (USA)
Finnish Asiatic Society Soil Generation,of Philadelphia, Pa

Individuals:

Peter Newell, Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex UK
Pascoe Sabido,Researcher and Campaigner
Michael K Dorsey
Ruben Solis, University Sin fronteras, San Antonio Tx and Atlanta Georgia-USA
Reynaldo padilla (Puerto Rico-San Juan)Caribbean Institue of Social Movements
Michelle Pressend, South
Brian Tokar, Institute for Social Ecology (Vermont USA)
Elizabeth Henderson, organic farmer – Peacework Organic CSA, New York USA
Leon Spencer, former Executive Director, Washington Office on Africa.
Joshua Dimon, researcher
Peter Steudtner, Germany,
Lucia Jofrice, Moçambique
Kirtrina USA
Jim Kirkwood, Africafiles
Cristian Guerrero- Quito, Ecuador
Ruth Nyambura, Kenya
Boaventura Monjane, Moçambique

Signatures are open until November 30, 2015.

[1]                REDD ( Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) is a global initiative to create a financial value for the carbon stored in forests and all other ecosystems to compensate governments and companies or owners of forests and agriculture in developing countries not to cut their forests or to reduce their rate of deforestation and forest degradation as a market mechanism to avoid GHG emissions. REDD+ expands REDD to develop methods for carbon sequestration through conservation of forest (and wetlands, agricultural systems) carbon stocks, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries.

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Hermanos y Hermanas,

Por favor firmen esta petición para ponerle un Alto a REDD en California en Chiapas y la Amazonia que es el modelo para implementar REDD en todo el mundo.

¡Alto a REDD de California! ¡Alto a REDD en todo el mundo!

¡FIRMA AHORA!

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Hermanos y Hermanas,

Por favor firmen esta petición para ponerle un Alto a REDD en California en Chiapas y la Amazonia que es el modelo para implementar REDD en todo el mundo.

¡Alto a REDD de California! ¡Alto a REDD en todo el mundo!

¡FIRMA AHORA!

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