Interview with Cleber Buzatto, Executive Secretary of CIMI (the Indigenous Missionary Council). The interview was conducted by email in August 2015.
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Norway pays Brazil US$1 billion. But what for, exactly?
In 2008, Norway agreed to pay US$1 billion to Brazil’s Amazon Fund, if Brazil reduced deforestation in the Amazon. Norway has so far handed over US$900 million and will pay the final US$100 million before the end of this year.
Interview with Michael Schmidlehner, Amazonlink: “REDD aims at shifting the responsibility for the climate crisis from industrialized societies to forest communities”
Interview with Michael Schmidlehner, founder of Amazonlink. The interview was conducted by email in August 2015.
Interview with Winnie Overbeek, World Rainforest Movement: “REDD is not only a false solution to climate change, REDD also represents a severe threat for communities that depend on forests”
Interview with Winnie Overbeek, International Coordinator of the World Rainforest Movement. The interview was conducted by email in August 2015.
The Nature Conservancy in São Félix do Xingu, Brazil: “Increasing social inequity”
São Félix do Xingu is a large municipality in the state of Pará, Brazil. Since 2001, it has had one of the highest rates of deforestation in the Amazon. Covering an area of 8.4 million hectares, with more than two million head of cattle and a little over 106,000 people, it easy to see what…