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Fracturing solidarity: The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement in context

20 Apr, 2011

Note: The Indigenous Environmental Network’s Clayton Thomas-Muller is quoted in the article. Clayton is on the board of Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP is the North America Focal Point of the Global Forest Coalition). –The GJEP Team —————————————————- by dawnpaley on 25/02/2011 Source: Briarpatch Magazine latest edition. March/April 2011. When representatives from environmental organizations took the stage last May together with logging industry groups to promote what they billed as a new deal to protect Canada’s boreal forest, the announcement …

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What is behind the “responsible” soy label? Detective Pig finds out

8 Apr, 2011

In 2011 the ‘Round Table on Responsible Soy’ (RTRS) will introduce a label for ‘responsible’ soy. This will be mostly genetically engineered (GE) soy, designed to be produced with large…

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37th Issue of Forest Cover, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition

1 Apr, 2011

Latest version of the Global Forest Coalition Newsletter. Since the term ‘Green Economy’ seems to become increasingly popular, this edition includes an editorial on the ugly shade of the green economy,…

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Response to the UNFCCC Call for Views for Forests in Exhaustion

1 Apr, 2011

Joint declaration supported by 64 national and international NGOs and Indigenous Peoples’ Organizations calling for excluding monoculture tree plantations from financial support to forest and climate change-related programs. It is…

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World’s Largest Wood Power Station Approved in the UK will Threaten Climate and Forests

31 Mar, 2011

Plans were approved on 14 March 2011 to convert RWE npower’s Tilbury B power station from coal to burning imported wood pellets – over 7 million tonnes per year. Biofuelwatch…

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As UN Declares International Year of Forests, Groups Demand Solutions to Root Causes of Deforestation

2 Feb, 2011

Insist Indigenous & Forest Peoples’ Rights Must Be at the Heart of Forest Protection. New York, At the launch of the High Level segment of the UN Forum on Forests…

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Environmental Groups Denounce False Forest Policies as UN Year of Forests Opens

24 Jan, 2011

New York, 24 January 2011: At the opening of the 10th session of the UN Forum on Forests today in New York, which marks the opening of the UN Year…

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It’s beginning to look a lot like…the WTO

14 Jan, 2011

How the UN Climate Talks are Turning into WTO-Style Trade Negotiations See the latest Forest Cover for a report by GFC Board member Mary Lou Malig on the Cancun Climate…

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The Luna talks?

10 Dec, 2010

About REDD, LULUCF and Luna-talks By Simone Lovera, Sobrevivencia-Paraguay and Global Forest Coalition Of course, when we arrived in Cancun and realized that the meeting venues were called Cancun…

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The Missing Delegate at Cancún: Indigenous Peoples

10 Dec, 2010

cross-posted from: National Geographic blog Forest set-asides are at the heart of the United Nations’ climate negotiations, but a Native American restoration specialist says it will get the wrong people out of…

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La Vía Campesina demands environmental and social justice, and respect for Mother Earth at the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP 16)

10 Dec, 2010

Españoles debajo Via Campesina Declaration in Cancún No agreement is better than a bad agreement: The people hold thousands of solutions in their hands Global Forum for Life, Environmental and Social…

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“The Voices of those Who Speak for Mother Earth Must Not Be Silenced”

10 Dec, 2010

Statement By Tom Goldtooth, Leader of the Indigenous Environmental Network Delegation to UNFCCC COP-16 Negotiations Dec 9, 2010 Media Contacts: (interviews available in Spanish & English) IEN media hotline: +52…

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Cancun: Anger grows at World Bank role in climate finance

8 Dec, 2010

MARCH TO KEEP WORLD BANK OUT OF CLIMATE FINANCE DATE: Wednesday, Dec 8th TIME: gather 9:30am, march at 10am LOCATION: rally and march leaving from Palacio Municipal Rally will be…

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Protests Inside and Outside COP-16 Climate Summit Expose the Corrupt COP Process, Uphold Cochabamba People’s Agreement as Path towards Real Solutions

8 Dec, 2010

Media Contacts: IEN media hotline: +52 998 108 0748 Jeff Conant, Global Justice Ecology Project: +52 998 165 7349 (English & Español) Jen Soriano, Grassroots Global Justice US 415-572-7154, jen@ggjalliance.org…

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International Day of Action for Climate Justice

7 Dec, 2010

Press release – La Via Campesina See the full list of actions around the world (Cancun, 7 December 2010) Thousands of people affected by and concerned for the destruction of…

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DECEMBER 7 DAY OF ACTION: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS BRING HOPE AS COP-16 FALTERS

7 Dec, 2010

1000 cancuns december 7 Global Well-Being MEDIA ADVISORY December 6, 2010 30 Events Across the U.S. and Canada to Build Alternative Solutions to the Climate Crisis, part of the 1000…

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New Report Exposes UN REDD Program as Fundamentally Flawed

7 Dec, 2010

From Indigenous Environmental Network, Global Justice Ecology Project, World Rainforest Movement, ETC Group and Carbon Trade Watch December 6, 2010 Indigenous and NGO Groups Warn that REDD and other carbon…

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