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UN Postpones Action to Halt Deforestation by 10 Years under Pressure from Industry
[New York] The Global Forest Coalition [1] reacted furiously to the final draft of the Sustainable Development Goals released this week. Despite the fact that most Sustainable Development Goals were agreed upon in July 2014, the latest draft, which will be adopted by the United Nations in September 2015 as the heart of the Post-2015 Development Agenda [2] has suddenly been tweaked to postpone a crucial target to halt deforestation by an entire decade, from 2020 to 2030. The Sustainable …
Wilmar’s No Deforestation policy tested by latest abuses by PT Asiatic Persada
(cross-posted) Jakarta, December 17, 2013 – The indigenous Suku Anak Dalam (SAD) community of Bungo, in Jambi, Indonesia has struggled for 27 years to regain control of their territory from the palm oil company PT. Asiatic Persada (PT AP). They achieved success in October when the Jambi Regional Office of the National Land Agency (BPN) and the governor of Jambi recommended that the BPN Indonesia in Jakarta review the company’s concession permit.[1] But SAD’s dream of having their 3,550 hectares returned was …
Declaración: Para hacer frente a la emergencia climática debemos desmantelar la OMC y el régimen de libre comercio
La Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) fue establecida en 1995 para completar el trío de Bretton Woods, con el Banco Mundial y el Fondo Monetario Internacional, para la promoción del neoliberalismo y la globalización corporativa. La OMC es particularmente importante en la aplicación de las reglas del libre comercio mundial, penalizado a los países, restringiendo el espacio de definición de política económica de los gobiernos y obligándolos, en muchos casos, a modificar sus leyes nacionales. Al poco tiempo de su …
STATEMENT: To confront the climate emergency we need to dismantle the WTO and the free trade regime
Launched in 1995, the World Trade Organization (WTO) completed the Bretton Woods trio with the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund in promoting neoliberalism and corporate globalization. The WTO was particularly special in its power to legally enforce and penalize countries, taking away the policy space of governments, and on several occasions, forcing them to change their national laws in order to implement global free trade rules. Not long after its launch however, new negotiations to deepen the rules …
Biodiversity in suspense
By our executive director, Simone Lovera Halfway the second week, everybody is holding its breath here at the Biodiversity Conference of the Parties: Will the 10th Conference of the Parties end up in a Copenhagen-style collapse?
Organizations protest market-based conservation at CBD COP10
On Tuesday 19 October, the second day of the Biodiversity Conference in Nagoya, Japan, organizations, including the Global Forest Coalition, protested against market-based conservation. A short report from our Executive Director, Simone Lovera:
EU bio-energy targets cause biodiversity loss
Nagoya, Japan, 18 October 2010 -Environmental and social justice groups warn that incentives for wood-based bio-energy will trigger dramatic biodiversity loss, as forests and grasslands are converted to monocultures. The groups urge governments to immediately end subsidies and other support for bio energy production.
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