Turning Point: What future for forest peoples and resources in the emerging world order?

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Turning Point: What future for forest peoples and resources in the emerging world order?

Reports about REDD tend to focus on the forests. It’s unusual for a report about REDD to start with an analysis of the economic crisis in Europe and the way in which the world is changing. Yesterday, the Rights and Resources Initiative released a new report that does precisely that.

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Understanding Community Based-REDD+: A Manual for Indigenous Communities

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Understanding Community Based-REDD+: A Manual for Indigenous Communities

The Asia Indigenous Peoples’ Pact and the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs recently produced a manual for indigenous communities about REDD.

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REDD in the news: 23-29 January 2012

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REDD in the news: 23-29 January 2012

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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Finance for biodiversity is a “new face for capitalism”: Sign on letter to CBD from Acción Ecológica

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Finance for biodiversity is a new face for capitalism: Sign on letter to CBD from Accion Ecologica

“Conserving the planet’s species and habitats is central to sustainable developmentyet the global decline in biodiversity is accelerating,” says UN Secretary General, Ban-Ki Moon. “The United Nations decade on biodiversity is an opportunity to reverse this trend, under the theme living in harmony with nature.”

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Durban feedback #1: Saving the market, not the climate

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Durban feedback #1: Saving the market, not the climate

Over the next few weeks, REDD-Monitor will post a series of reports from participants at the UN climate meeting in Durban (COP17). The first comes from Kate Dooley of FERN and Kate Horner of Friends of the Earth US. Their report is extremely critical of what came out of Durban on REDD and in general on addressing climate change.

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REDD in the news: 16-22 January 2012

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REDD in the news: 16-22 January 2012

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 January 2012

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REDD in the news: 9-15 January 2012

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: 2-8 January 2012

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REDD in the news: 2-8 January 2012

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: 26 December 2011 – 1 January 2012

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REDD in the news: 26 December 2011 - 1 January 2012

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: 19-25 December 2011

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REDD in the news: 19-25 December 2011

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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Implement safeguards on REDD Plus, indigenous caucus demands

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Implement safeguards on REDD Plus, indigenous caucus demands

Last week REDD-Monitor posted a press release from The Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities against REDD+ and for Life demanding a moratorium on REDD. As a commentator pointed out, that was not the only press release from indigenous peoples at the UN climate negotiations in Durban.

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Alternatives to carbon markets to finance REDD

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Alternatives to carbon markets to finance REDD

At the beginning of the UN climate negotiations in Durban (COP17), FERN published a short report looking at carbon markets as a means of financing REDD. The briefing, which was signed on to by 28 organisations explains why carbon markets will not deliver for southern governments, forests and people.

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REDD in the news: 12-18 December 2011

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REDD in the news: 12-18 December 2011

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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Indigenous Peoples Condemn Climate Talks Fiasco and Demand Moratoria on REDD+

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Indigenous Peoples Condemn Climate Talks Fiasco and Demand Moratoria on REDD+

“The UN climate negotiation is not about saving the climate, it is about privatization of forests, agriculture and the air,” Berenice Sanchez of the Mesoamerica Indigenous Women’s Biodiversity Network says in a press release earlier this week.

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The Munden Project: “Investing in communities is the most effective way of reducing deforestation”

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The Munden Project: Investing in communities is the most effective way of reducing deforestation

In March 2011, a consulting firm called The Munden Project put out a report about forest carbon markets. The report concluded that carbon trading is “unworkable as currently constructed”.

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