La Unión de Nativos Ayoreo de Paraguay se Manifiesta Ante una Nueva Situación que Afecta al Pueblo Ayoreo
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Turning Forests into Fuel for the New ‘Bio-economy?’: What Really Happens When Forests are Commodified-Voices From Around The World
Doha, Qatar– As Governments gathering for the 18th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP18) continue discussions on the need to address the drivers…
Appeal to CBD Alliance for writing to the Prime Minister of India on violation of forest and community rights
To the friends from International NGOs, community groups and social movements at the CBD alliance. As you are by now aware that the Indian Parliament has enacted the Scheduled Tribes…
41st issue of Forest Cover, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition
We present the 41st version of the Global Forest Coalition’s newsletter in intergovernmental forest-related policy processes: Forest Cover no.41st. In this issue you will find: an interesting editorial on the current policies that add…
IUCN OFFICIALLY BLOCKS PARTICIPATION BY JEJU VILLAGERS WHO OPPOSE NAVAL BASE CONSTRUCTION NEAR CONVENTION
(cross-posted from www.ifg.org) This letter is #3 in our challenges to the shocking policies of the International Union for the Conservations of Nature (IUCN). As it approaches its convention on…
Tiger Reserves: The Realities Behind a Controversy
Statement from the Campaign for Dignity and Survival ——- These reserves are not managed in any rational, accountable or even legal way. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court gave the Environment…
TIPNIS UPDATES: What is Going on in Evo’s Plurinational State?
One week has passed, and the ghost of the Coup has disappeared, and is a week since the IX Indigenous March in Defense of TIPNIS started a vigil at the…
40th issue of Forest Cover, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition
We present the most recent version of the Global Forest Coalition’s newsletter in intergovernmental forest-related policy processes: Forest Cover no.40. This issue includes articles referring to the past UNFCCC-COP17 in Durban, South Africa addressing…
UN Intersessional Report: How will the Green Economy affect women?
(cross-posted) Keith Brunner from Gears of Change Youth Media Project reports back from the side event “Women’s critical perspectives on the ‘green economy” carried out during the UN Rio+20 intercessional (March25-27) at…
Civil Society Views in Scaling up Biodiversity Finance, Resource Mobilization, and Innovative Financial Mechanisms
GFC’s submission to the UNFCCC call for Parties and accredited organizations on modalities and procedures for financing results based-actions and activities related to decision 1/CP.16, paragraphs 68-70 and 72. This…
New Video Reveals Global Resistance to Forest-Carbon Projects: A Darker Shade of Green Documents Critical Perspectives on REDD
Global Forest Coalition and Global Justice Ecology Project have produced a new video entitled A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests. The twenty-eight minute…
AND THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS REDD FAIRY TALE IS…. “REDD will support Indigenous Peoples”
Durban, South Africa – Global Forest Coalition has published a series of “Grimm REDD Fairy Tales” to assist delegates in distinguishing truth from fiction regarding the controversial program of Reducing…
Indigenous Peoples and Allies Call for a Moratorium on REDD+
Indigenous Peoples participating in the UNFCCC negotiations have called for a moratorium on REDD+ today. In a statement released to the press, the Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local…
Indigenous and Community-led Forest Initiatives Offer Solutions to Today’s Problems Local Communities Need Rights and Respect, Not REDD
Durban, South Africa – Studies show that the best guardians of forest lands are the people who live there. Indigenous Peoples and other Forest-dependent peoples agree. Yet, all over the…
Indigenous Leaders Alert the UNFCCC and the World to the Imminent Threat that REDD Poses to their Territories and Livelihoods
Durban, South Africa (IPCCA). As the UNFCCC COP 17 opens in Durban, South Africa, a gathering of indigenous leaders from around the world discussing biocultural protocols and REDD warns…
Forest Campaigners Denounce REDD as a Grimm Fairy Tale; Indigenous Communities Declare Safeguards Will Not Work
Durban, South Africa – At the inauguration of United Nations COP17, Global Forest Coalition has published a series of “Grimm REDD Fairy Tales” [1] to assist delegates in distinguishing truth from…
BEWARE THE GRIMM REDD FAIRY TALES!!!
The Global Forest Coalition has produced a series of REDD Fairy Tales. Introducing: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs – REDD+ is a Poisoned Apple Ananse – REDD’s Sticky Web…
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