The World Bank continues with its push to trade the carbon stored in forests. But new research shows that safeguards and legal protections for indigenous peoples and local communities in these new forest carbon markets are “non-existent”.
Tag: REDD and rights
Thailand’s Readiness Preparation Proposal fails to resolve ongoing conflicts between communities and government agencies – Thai Climate Justice Working Group
In a letter to the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, the Thai Climate Justice Working Group rejects the latest draft of Thailand’s Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP).
Indigenous peoples evicted and their homes set on fire: Embobut forest, Kenya
Kenya Forest Service guards are evicting Sengwer indigenous people from their homes in the Embobut forest in Kenya. The guards have burned people’s homes and set fire to their possessions.
Stop the illegal evictions from the Embobut Forest in Kenya
Evictions have started of Sengwer indigenous people and other communities from the Embobut Forest in Western Kenya. Armed guards from the Kenya Forest Service have moved into the area to evict people, despite an injunction preventing evictions from the forest.
Forced eviction by Kenya threatens indigenous communities’ human rights and ancestral forests
Forest Peoples Programme reports that police troops in Kenya have been sent to the Embobut forest to evict thousands of indigenous Sengwer and Cherangany communities.