Over the next few weeks, REDD-Monitor will post a series of reports from participants at the UN climate meeting in Durban (COP17). The first comes from Kate Dooley of FERN and Kate Horner of Friends of the Earth US. Their report is extremely critical of what came out of Durban on REDD and in general…
Tag: Durban COP-17
Implement safeguards on REDD Plus, indigenous caucus demands
Last week REDD-Monitor posted a press release from The Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities against REDD+ and for Life demanding a moratorium on REDD. As a commentator pointed out, that was not the only press release from indigenous peoples at the UN climate negotiations in Durban.
Indigenous Peoples Condemn Climate Talks Fiasco and Demand Moratoria on REDD+
“The UN climate negotiation is not about saving the climate, it is about privatization of forests, agriculture and the air,” Berenice Sanchez of the Mesoamerica Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network says in a press release earlier this week.
Durban feedback: Is the carbon market “still on life support” or did it get a “Viagra shot”?
Some of the (somewhat bizarre) feedback on the Durban deal, including (bizarre) descriptions of “success” from US Democrat Party supporters at Climate Progress.
REDD texts from the Conference of Polluters (Durban COP-17): 11 December 2011
The UN climate talks in Durban finished late on Saturday night, almost 36 hours late. Negotiators agreed little more than to start talks next year on a new deal. These talks are supposed to end by 2015 and are to come into effect by 2020.