If it were a country, aviation would be the seventh largest greenhouse gas emitter. Flying is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gases.Between 1990 and 2012, emissions from flying increased by 76%.
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Who pays the price for protected areas? New website launched to expose global protected area abuses
Yesterday, I launched a new website: Conservation Watch. While conservation is crucially important, it has a dark side. No one knows how many people have been evicted to make way for National Parks. But some estimates put the figure in millions.
Indigenous Peoples’ statement: “To save the forests and stop climate change, save the peoples who protect them”
During the Oslo REDD Exchange earlier this month, four Indigenous Peoples’ organisations put out a statement emphasising the importance of indigenous peoples’ rights in saving forests and stopping climate change.
Sign the petition: “No aviation growth! No false climate solutions!”
The International Civil Aviation Authority is currently considering how it can continue to expand while appearing to address greenhouse gas emissions from flying. Predictably, for a massively polluting industry with huge plans to expand, buying cheap offsets looks very attractive.
Guest Post: From the chaos of REDD-plus towards the Bonn Challenge’s maze
Yvette Aguilar is an expert and adviser on the issue of climate change of El Salvador Round-Table and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in El Salvador. She submitted this Guest Post looking at the way proponents are recycling REDD under a range of different labels.