On the World Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations, The No REDD Platform, a coalition of climate justice groups and Indigenous People´s Organizations seeks support for this letter with which we aim to alert communities, activists, civil society groups and social movements of funding by the international donor community to dubious “Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and enhance forest carbon stocks” (REDD+) schemes, which are being promoted within the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (click on link above to read the letter).
Brazil’s GE eucalyptus boom shows how land-based geoengineering—marketed as climate mitigation—reproduces colonial, ecological, and social harms
By Natalie McClure, Isaac Millians and Amy Guzman. Undergraduate Researchers at Gibson Climate Justice Lab, University of Southern California Brazil's Expanding "Green Deserts" Picture a desert: hot, dry, and teeming with drought-resistant life. Now, think about what...