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The Green Economy, Forest Peoples and Territories
Rights violations in the state of Acre
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False Solutions for Forests: Biomass Energy, Sustainable Timber, and Carbon Markets
Even as policies guiding timber exports fail to curtail deforestation, the world’s energy economy is demanding increased burning of biomass — meaning forests.
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Chiapas cancels ‘disastrous’ forest plan linked to Calif. cap-and-trade program
The state government of Chiapas has cancelled a controversial forest protection plan that critics said failed to address the root causes of deforestation and could endanger the lives and livelihoods o…
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California REDD: A False Solution
Among environmental advocates, and especially forest defenders, REDD can be a complicated and divisive issue; among those a little beyond the inner circles of environmental advocacy, it’s downright…
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Open Letter Opposing REDD (Acre)
California wants to approve the incorporation of REDD+ offsets in its carbon cap-and-trade programme without hearing from the parties that would be affected by REDD+ activities.
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Open Letter Opposing REDD (Chiapas)
The REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation+) program, which allows Northern polluters to purchases forest carbon offset credits from the global South, has been included in…
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Commodity Crimes: Illicit Land Grabs, Illegal Palm Oil and Endangered Orangutans
New report exposes palm oil producers in Indonesia destroying vital forest habitat in protected forest reserves, at the expense of local communities and wildlife.
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Bloody REDD: The fight against forest carbon offsets in California
This week, Friends of Earth, along with 30 other organizations based in California, urged Governor Brown to prevent international REDD carbon credits from entering California’s carbon trading system…
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Open Letter Opposing REDD (California)
While California can play an important role in protecting tropical forests, developing a REDD+ offsets program risks wasting finite resources on a policy mechanism that will be inefficient, ineffectiv…
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Durban REDD Update
Durban aimed to save the market, not the climate