Leonardo A. Crippa and Gretchen Gordon of the Indian Law Resource Center have produced a document titled “International Law Principles for REDD+: The Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Obligations of REDD+ Actors” (pdf file, 688.4 KB). The document is an updated version of a working draft released in May 2012, the changes reflecting recent…
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Protest against California Governor Jerry Brown: “REDD is bad for the climate, bad for the environment, bad for Californians, bad for human rights and bad for the economy”
Last week, more than 60 activists protested outside the Le Parc Hotel in San Francisco against the presentation of Blue Green Alliance’s Right Stuff Award to governor Jerry Brown. Brown did not turn up to accept the award.
Indigenous peoples’ rights and the status of forest land in Indonesia
A recent meeting in Indonesia addressed three important issues facing the future of the forests in the country: gazettement of state forest; exclusion of indigenous peoples’ forest from the state forest; and the resolution of forestry conflicts.
The demise of the Kalimantan Forest and Climate Partnership and the importance of free, prior and informed consent
The German newspaper taz.de, recently reported on the demise of Australia’s Kalimantan Forest and Climate Partnership. Journalist Anett Keller visited the KFCP project area in 2011. “This is money thrown out of the window,” a villager told her back then.
MIFEE’s massive seizure of indigenous lands is causing starvation and poverty in Papua
The Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) industrial plantations project is having serious impacts on people and forests in Papua province, Indonesia. Forest Peoples Programme’s Sophie Chao visited the project area earlier this year and reports that “disease and undernourishment are rampant”.