Durban Declaration on REDD: “All forms of REDD amount to two things: licensing polluters to keep polluting and grabbing lands and other resources from forest and peasant communities.”
Author: Chris Lang
Deforestation denial: FAO claims that forest loss has halved, while Global Forest Watch raises the alarm about “dramatic forest loss”
This week, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation released its Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015 at the World Forestry Congress in Durban, South Africa. The good news, at least according to FAO, is that deforestation is slowing down.
Interview with Michael Schmidlehner, Amazonlink: “REDD aims at shifting the responsibility for the climate crisis from industrialized societies to forest communities”
Interview with Michael Schmidlehner, founder of Amazonlink. The interview was conducted by email in August 2015.
Interview with Winnie Overbeek, World Rainforest Movement: “REDD is not only a false solution to climate change, REDD also represents a severe threat for communities that depend on forests”
Interview with Winnie Overbeek, International Coordinator of the World Rainforest Movement. The interview was conducted by email in August 2015.
The Nature Conservancy in São Félix do Xingu, Brazil: “Increasing social inequity”
São Félix do Xingu is a large municipality in the state of Pará, Brazil. Since 2001, it has had one of the highest rates of deforestation in the Amazon. Covering an area of 8.4 million hectares, with more than two million head of cattle and a little over 106,000 people, it easy to see what…