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		<title>New video: &#8220;A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2012/01/25/new-video-a-darker-shade-of-green-redd-alert-and-the-future-of-forests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A new video by the Global Forest Coalition and the Global Justice Ecology Project is deeply critical of REDD. Much of the criticism focusses on carbon trading, but through interviews with communities in Chiapas, Mexico, the video illustrates the perverse impacts that REDD can have on the ground. The video starts with a description of ... [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Durban feedback: Is the carbon market &#8220;still on life support&#8221; or did it get a &#8220;Viagra shot&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/12/13/durban-feedback-is-the-carbon-market-still-on-life-support-or-did-it-get-a-viagra-shot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/12/13/durban-feedback-is-the-carbon-market-still-on-life-support-or-did-it-get-a-viagra-shot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 06:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The agreement that came out of the Conference of Polluters (COP-17) in Durban included no new commitments to reduce emissions. “What we got instead was a clear signal that we might get another clear signal in 2015,” as Jonathan Grant, director of carbon markets and climate policy at PricewaterhouseCoopers told the Financial Times. The Conference ... [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REDD texts from the Conference of Polluters (Durban COP-17): 11 December 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/12/11/redd-texts-from-the-conference-of-polluters-durban-cop-17-11-december-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:23:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The UN climate talks in Durban finished late on Saturday night, almost 36 hours late. Negotiators agreed little more than to start talks next year on a new deal. These talks are supposed to end by 2015 and are to come into effect by 2020. "The bottom line is that governments got practically nothing ... [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two views of the Governors&#8217; Climate and Forest Task Force meeting 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/09/22/two-views-of-the-governors-climate-and-forest-task-force-meeting-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/09/22/two-views-of-the-governors-climate-and-forest-task-force-meeting-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The fifth Governors’ Climate and Forests (GCF) Taskforce takes place this week in Central Kalimantan. The organisers anticipated that more than 200 people would take part in the three day meetings. The GCF is a carbon trading REDD deal between 15 states and provinces from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria, and the USA covering more ... [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statement from Chiapas, Mexico: REDD project is a climate mask &#8220;to cover up the dispossession of the biodiversity of the peoples&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/09/07/statement-from-chiapas-mexico-redd-project-is-a-climate-mask-to-cover-up-the-dispossession-of-the-biodiversity-of-the-peoples/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/09/07/statement-from-chiapas-mexico-redd-project-is-a-climate-mask-to-cover-up-the-dispossession-of-the-biodiversity-of-the-peoples/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 06:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Global Justice Ecology Project's Jeff Conant and Orin Langelle visited the community of Amador Hernandez in Chiapas, Mexico in March 2011. They were there to investigate the relationship between the threatened forced relocation of the community to REDD proposals. In particular they were interested in how the inclusion of carbon trading in plans ... [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REDD-Monitor open thread: WikiLeaks and REDD</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/09/04/redd-monitor-open-thread-wikileaks-and-redd/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/09/04/redd-monitor-open-thread-wikileaks-and-redd/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 08:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ REDD-Monitor is requesting your help to find the best REDD stories contained in the US Embassy Cables that WikiLeaks released last week. WikiLeaks started releasing edited versions of the cables in November 2010, since when the cables have been trickling out. On 31 August 2011, WikiLeaks released 251,287 US Embassy cables. Unredacted. WikiLeaks' media ... [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forest carbon project in Paraná, Brazil: Reduction of deforestation and persecution of local communities</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/09/03/forest-carbon-project-in-parana-brazil-reduction-of-deforestation-and-persecution-of-local-communities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/09/03/forest-carbon-project-in-parana-brazil-reduction-of-deforestation-and-persecution-of-local-communities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 07:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The Guaraqueçaba project, run by the Nature Conservancy and the Society for Wildlife Research and Environmental Education (SPVS) has been featured in the past on REDD-Monitor, after investigative journalist Mark Schapiro reported from the project area. The most recent World Rainforest Movement Bulletin, which focusses on REDD, includes an article about the project in ... [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New report exposes illegal timber trade from Laos to Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/08/03/new-report-exposes-illegal-timber-trade-from-laos-to-vietnam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/08/03/new-report-exposes-illegal-timber-trade-from-laos-to-vietnam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ A new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency confirms that logs from Laos continue to pour over the border into Vietnam feeding a booming furniture industry there, despite a ban on exports of unprocessed timber from Laos. This illegal trade has serious implications for REDD in both countries. EIA notes that the only beneficiaries of ... [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Manufacturing consent: The U.S. position on Free, Prior and Informed Consent</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/06/02/manufacturing-consent-the-u-s-position-on-free-prior-and-informed-consent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/06/02/manufacturing-consent-the-u-s-position-on-free-prior-and-informed-consent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 08:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ On 16 December 2010, US President Barack Obama announced that "in April, we announced that we were reviewing our position on the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. And today I can announce that the United States is lending its support to this declaration." When the applause died down, Obama continued: "The ... [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REDD Alert in Chiapas, Mexico</title>
		<link>http://www.redd-monitor.org/2011/04/07/redd-alert-in-chiapas-mexico/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The village of Amador Hernández is in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico. Since last year, the community has been denied medical supplies and the government has suspended emergency transport of seriously ill people from the area. Villagers are concerned that the suspension of medical services is precursor to eviction under a REDD ... [...]]]></description>
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