The state of Acre hit the world’s headlines in December 1988 with the murder of Chico Mendes, the president of the Union of Rural Workers of Xapuri. A year before his death, Environmental Defense Fund and National Wildlife Federation flew Mendes to Washington, D.C. aiming to convince the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, and…
Tag: Indigenous Peoples
New video – Exposing REDD: The False Climate Solution
Last week, The Mending News put out a video about REDD: “Exposing REDD: The False Climate Solution”. The short video includes an interview with Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network.
REDD, carbon trading and addressing illegal logging – six presentations from FERN
In March 2013, the European Union’s Timber Regulation comes into force. After years of NGO campaigns, endless discussions, conferences and workshops it will become illegal to sell illegally sourced timber in the EU.
California, REDD, carbon trading and Indigenous Peoples
Last week, REDD-Monitor posted a press release about a delegation of indigenous people who travelled to California to protest about the inclusion of carbon trading in the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32). This post looks at some of the responses to this “No REDD Tour“.
Indonesia is “open for big business” and failing to protect its people and forests
“You can find almost everything in Indonesia,” said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the first Indonesia Investment Day in New York last month. “Oil and gas, coal, geothermal energy, tin, copper, nickel, aluminum, bauxite, iron, cacao, coffee. When it comes to oil, we have oil underground, under the sea and even above the ground: palm…