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 hundred indigenous peoples met and produced the Kari-Oca II Declaration.
NO REDD+! in RIO +20: A Declaration to Decolonize the Earth and the Sky
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 Summit, a nine day event taking place in parallel to the UN Rio +20 conference.
WWF on REDD financing: Asking forest nations to engage in a 30 year activity, “where the rewards beyond year 2 or 3 are completely unknown”
Under a REDD mechanism, forests are valued primarily as stores of carbon. REDD aims to save the forests by trading the carbon stored in the forests, making the trees worth more standing than cleared. For REDD to save the forests, we have to create a market for forest carbon.
Guest Post: REDD and the green economy
REDD and the green economy: “REDD is a mechanism not to cut GHGs, but to deliver new permits to pollute.”
As Indonesia’s president talks of “sustainable growth with equity”, Tripa continues to burn
Today, Indonesia’s president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is giving a policy address at CIFOR on the theme “Forests in the Future We Want”. He’s painting a rosy picture of the way Indonesia has addressed the problems that the forest sector caused in the past.