“The aim of reducing the emissions from forest destruction and degradation caused by industrial agriculture, logging, mining for fossil resources, etc. is today decisive to the survival of humankind and our planet. However, when the tool to achieve this aim is the trading of emission credits (offsets), we arrive at the wrong solutions.”
Tag: Indigenous Peoples
Guest Post: REDD, Payments for Environmental Services, and Amazonian Spirituality
Michael Schmidlehner is a researcher, NGO founder and climate justice activist in Rio Branco, capital of the Brazilian state of Acre. He submitted this Guest Post about a forthcoming ayahuasca conference in Acre.
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.
The Borneo Case: A new film about the destruction of Sarawak’s forests
The Borneo Case is a new film that documents the destruction of more than 90% of Sarawak’s forests and investigates where the profits from the destruction went. As the Bruno Manser Fund notes, “Vast illicit assets have been acquired by the former Chief Minister and current Governor of Sarawak, Abdul Taib Mahmud, and his closest…
Guest Post: Between Suruí and “Acapú”: REDD and scientists’ ethical dilemmas
Michael Schmidlehner is a researcher, NGO founder and climate justice activist in Rio Branco, capital of the Brazilian state of Acre. He submitted this Guest Post about an academic paper looking at a REDD project established on the land of the “Acapú” indigenous people in Brazil.