Indigenous Environmental Network has put out a press release celebrating California’s postponement of a decision on its Tropical Forest Standard until April 2019. It’s “a significant win” Indigenous Environmental Network says in the press release.
Tag: No REDD
REDD Early Movers: The fallacy of the Green Economy
World Rainforest Movement recently published a statement, signed by 26 Brazilian organisations, opposing REDD. Specifically, the statement is in opposition to the German-funded REDD Early Movers programme in the state of Mato Grosso. So far, REM has operated in the state of Acre. The NGO statement describes REM as an example of how “Foreign capital…
COP21 Paris snapshot #2: No REDD!
While REDD is edging its way into the Paris Outcome, a series of protests and statements against REDD have taken place at the COP21 climate negotiations in Paris. Here’s a round-up, with photographs, of some of the No REDD! activities in Paris over the past two weeks.
Durban Declaration on REDD: “Stop the disastrous REDD+ experiment”
Durban Declaration on REDD: “All forms of REDD amount to two things: licensing polluters to keep polluting and grabbing lands and other resources from forest and peasant communities.”
No REDD in Africa Network: “Forced Relocation of Sengwer People proves urgency of canceling REDD”
No REDD in Africa Network: Letter to the Kenyan Government and the UN protesting the evictions from the Embobut Forest.