Media Release: Environmental Groups Denounce Diversion of Forest Funding to REDD Plantations

On the World Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations, a coalition of environmental groups and Indigenous peoples organizations has launched a call to the international donor community to halt the diversion of forest conservation funding to dubious schemes to “Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and enhance forest carbon stocks” (REDD+), which are being promoted within the framework of the United Nations Climate Convention (click on link to read more).

21 Sep, 2011
Posted in Forests and Climate Change