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Category: Ecuador

The Green Climate Fund must reject Arbaro’s industrial tree plantations

Posted on 10 March 20201 April 2020

By Chris Lang At its 25th board meeting from 10-12 March 2020, the Green Climate Fund is due to decide whether to provide US$25 million to the Arbaro Fund. The money, together with a further US$175 million co-financing largely from other public sources, would be used to establish 75,000 hectares of commercial tree plantations in…

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New CIFOR infobrief: Rights abuse allegations in the context of REDD+ readiness and implementation

Posted on 7 November 2017

In 2007, the Forest Peoples Programme put out a briefing paper about reduced emissions from deforestation, or RED, as REDD was called back then. The briefing warned of the risks of the rapid expansion of avoided deforestation schemes without due regard to rights, and social and livelihood issues.

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#SOSAcciónEcológica: Ecuadorian government threatens to close down Acción Ecológica

Posted on 23 December 201628 February 2017

On 20 December 2016, the Ecuadorian Environment Minister threatened to close down the NGO Acción Ecológica. The threat is in relation to Acción Ecológica’s raising awareness about the environmental impacts of a planned mega-copper mine on the lands of the Shuar indigenous people. The police raided the office of the Shuar Federation, detaining Agustín Wachapa,…

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Communications: How indigenous communities have used radio, video and other communication strategies to defend their territories

Posted on 27 January 2016

Life Mosaic‘s video “Communications” takes a look at three communities that are successfully using communications strategies to organise in defence of their territories. It’s another video in the series “Territories of Life“.

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Indigenous Environmental Network: “REDD is a contradiction and violation of the sacred”

Posted on 8 December 2015

Last week, the Indigenous Environmental Network held a press conference at COP21 in Paris. Tom Goldtooth, Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network, said, “REDD and other carbon market regimes violate our traditional beliefs”.

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