With apologies for the delay, here’s a posting for International Women’s Day (8 March 2011). A group of organisations has produced an invitation to sign on to a position statement on Women and REDD.
Tag: Cancun
Why REDD+ is Dangerous (in its current form)
Why REDD is dangerous: A short paper by Kjell Kühne about what’s going wrong with REDD – a useful antidote to some of the nonsense written about REDD.
FERN report on REDD in Cancun: “increased risk that REDD activities will fuel conflict, undermine forest peoples’ rights and fail to reduce deforestation”
FERN has released its analysis of the UN climate negotiations in Cancun, COP 16, as part of the January 2011 issue of Forest Watch. A year ago, in its report on the REDD text from the Copenhagen meeting, FERN pointed out that “The safeguards are undermined … by the strong opposition of some countries to…
Guyana’s president Bharrat Jagdeo caught lying in Cancun: “We have decided to protect our entire forest”
Jagdeo caught lying. Guyana has absolutely no intention to “protect our entire forest”. In fact deforestation is increasing in Guyana.
One trillion tonnes of carbon, REDD, carbon trading and fortress conservation
In October 2009, Oxford University launched trillionthtonne.org – a website that tracks how fast we are approaching total global emissions of one trillion tonnes of carbon. The website illustrates how global carbon emissions are increasing, not decreasing. When the website was launched it predicted that the trillionth tonne would be emitted in March 2045. That…