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Poster: REDD + Indigenous Peoples = Genocide
Note: The photos in the upper right and lower left of this poster were taken in the indigenous village Amador Hernandez on the border of the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve by Global Justice Ecology...
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Colonialism and the green economy: Villagers defy pressure to forfeit farms...
Note: This article in Truthout came about with the assistance of Jeff Conant, GJEP’s then-Communications Director. GJEP ED Anne Petermann is quoted below. The article follows up on an investigation...
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Report highlights Indigenous territories and community rights as alternatives...
April 11 2013. Source: Global Forest Coalition Istanbul–The current logjam in the negotiations at the 10th session of the UN Forum on Forests regarding forest carbon offset markets and other funding...
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Take Action: Stop California REDD now!
Note: Global Justice Ecology Project has worked alongside Indigenous Environmental Network to oppose REDD since its conception, helping break the story about the California-Chiapas-Acre REDD deal...
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“We reject REDD+ in all its versions” – Letter from Chiapas, Mexico opposing...
By Chris Lang, 30th April 2013. Source: REDD-Monitor Organisations based in Chiapas, Mexico have written to California’s Governor, Jerry Brown, to oppose the inclusion of REDD in California’s Global...
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Concerns grow over weak safeguard implementation in REDD
Forest Peoples Programme on REDD and safeguards By Chris Lang, May 1st 2013. Source: REDD-Monitor Forest Peoples Programme’s April 2013 E-Newsletter focuses on safeguards. The E-Newsletter starts by...
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Environmental and human rights organizations call on California to reject...
Note: Global Justice Ecology Project has been tracking the California-Acre-Chiapas REDD deal since it was unveiled at the UN climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico in 2010. In 2011, GJEP’s...
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Foreco Growth Investments Ltd: Another carbon credit boiler room bites the...
By Chris Lang, June 28, 2013. Source: redd-monitor On 12 June 2013, Foreco Growth Investments Ltd, a UK-based company that sold carbon credits as investments, was wound up in the High Court in London....
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Australia’s forest carbon experiment in Indonesia ends in failure
July 3, 2012. Source: Friends of the Earth Sydney The Australian aid agency AusAID has effectively axed its $47 million forest carbon experiment in Kalimantan, KFCP, ahead of Australia’s Prime Minister...
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California’s market for hard-to-verify carbon offsets could let industry...
By Maureen Nandini Mitra and Michael Stoll, July 3, 2013. Source: Earth Island Journal One hot day this spring John Buckley scrambled up a dusty slope of a patch of deforested land in the middle of...
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REDD a ‘false solution’ for Africa
By Isaiah Esipisu, July 14, 2013. Source: Inter Press Service REDD – reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation – would seem to be a mitigation strategy that perfectly matches...
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The oxygen trade: Leaving Hondurans gasping for air
By Rosie Wong, July 25, 2013. Source: Intercontinental Cry The carbon trade doesn’t just fail to address climate change. In countries like Honduras, it funnels cash to notorious human rights abusers...
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Behind the backs of the People of California, Gov. Brown advances a policy...
San Francisco, Oct. 17 - Governor Jerry Brown of California was slated to receive the Blue Green Alliance’s Right Stuff award for environmentalism in San Francisco this evening but did not show up...
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The forest mafia: how scammers steal millions through carbon markets
Note: As many of us have been warning for almost a decade (and some for much longer). This article also mentions the opposition to California’s forest carbon offset program by Indigenous villages in...
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Note: The photos in the upper right and lower left of this poster were taken in the indigenous village Amador Hernandez on the border of the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve by Global Justice Ecology...
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