Via Campesina rejects REDD and carbon trading

La Viá Campesina rejects REDD and carbon trading

Vía Campesina is an international movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers. It is a coalition of around 150 organisations, with an estimated 300 million members. Vía Campesina recently put out a statement about COP-16 in Cancún.

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REDD in the news: 23-29 August 2010

REDD in the news: 23-29 August 2010

A round up of the week’s news on REDD, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). REDD-Monitor’s news page (REDD in the news) is updated regularly.

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REDD in the news: 16-22 August 2010

REDD in the news: 16-20 August 2010

A round up of the week’s news on REDD, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). REDD-Monitor’s news page (REDD in the news) is updated regularly.

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REDD in the news: 9-15 August 2010

REDD in the news: 9-15 August 2010

A round up of the news on REDD from last week, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). REDD-Monitor’s news page (REDD in the news) is updated regularly.

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REDD in the news: 2-8 August 2010

REDD in the news: 2-8 August 2010, PHOTO: WRM

A round up of the news on REDD from last week, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). REDD-Monitor’s news page (REDD in the news) is updated regularly.

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LULUCF, loopholes and REDD

LULUCF (land-use, land use change and forestry) became a hot topic at the Bonn meeting in June 2010, when it became clear that rich countries were attempting to use LULUCF to “hide increased emissions while trying somehow to create the illusion they are stopping catastrophic climate change,” as CAN International put it.

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REDD in the news: 26 July – 1 August 2010

REDD in the news: 26 July - 1 August 2010

A round up of the news on REDD from last week, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). REDD-Monitor’s news page (REDD in the news) is updated regularly.

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REDD in the news: 19-25 July 2010

REDD in the news: 19-25 July 2010

A round up of the news on REDD from the week before last, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). I’m currently travelling, hence the delay with this post. REDD-Monitor’s news page (REDD in the news) is updated regularly.

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REDD in the news: 12-18 July 2010

REDD in the news: 12-18 July 2010 PHOTO: (c)Modeerf Tserof/Greenpeace

A round up of the news on REDD from last week, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). I’m currently travelling, hence the delay with this post. REDD-Monitor’s news page (REDD in the news) will be updated sporadically for the next couple of weeks. Normal service will be resumed shortly.

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Civil Society excluded from Interim REDD+ Partnership meeting in Brasilia

Civil Society excluded from Interim REDD+ Partnership meeting in Brasilia

On 14-15 July 2010, a meeting of the Interim REDD+ Partnership took place in Brasilia. The co-chairs of the Partnership sent an invitation dated 6 July 2010 (pdf file 48.1 KB) to an apparently randomly selected list of development and environment NGOs, businesses and research organisations. The email stated that there was space in the meeting for 12 organisations to send 2 people.

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“Plantations are forests in uniform. They look like soldiers all lined up in ranks, and that is what they are. Dressed in green, they march off to the world market. The hymns that sing their praises in the name of our Mother Earth are lies. Industrial forests are to natural forests what military music is to music, and what military justice is to justice.” — Eduardo Galeano, World Rainforest Movement, September 2009

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