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Tianjin letter to governments

12 Oct 2010

The fourteenth session of the AWG-KP and the twelfth session of the AWG-LCA are taking place this week in Tianjin, China. During the last Climate Talks in Bonn in August some concrete proposals were brought to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in order to advance the negotiations to cut the greenhouse gas emissions in a new and positive way. The main demands of the World Peoples Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth …

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21 September – International Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations

4 Oct 2010

September 21 is International Day against Monoculture Tree Plantations. On this day, environmental and social groups around the world call attention to the harmful effects of tree monocultures on biodiversity…

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Shell bankrolls REDD

4 Oct 2010

Indigenous Environmental Network and Friends of the Earth Nigeria Denounce Shell REDD Project September 7, 2010 – Oil giant Shell, infamous for the genocide of the Ogoni People and environmental…

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Negative impacts of tree plantations ignored by Northern consumer countries

21 Sep 2010

Urgent need to raise awareness that plantations are not forests Paraguay, 21 September 2010 – A worldwide coalition of environmental and indigenous groups warns that international policies governing responses to…

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Thousand solutions to climate change!

13 Sep 2010

The people create thousands of solutions to confront climate change! Thousands of Cancuns for climate justice! La Via Campesina calls on social movements and all people to mobilize around the…

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Nature Communications article shows ‘true colours’ of biochar advocates

13 Sep 2010

Groups condemn implied land-grab for biochar

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EU Green Paper on forests and climate change: missed opportunity

13 Sep 2010

In March 2010, the European Commission launched an EU-wide consultation to find out whether the EU should increase its efforts to protect forests under a changing climate.

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LULUCF briefing: No offsets, no false accounting

13 Sep 2010

Briefing paper on Land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF), prepared by GFC’s European focal point Almuth Ernsting from Biofuelwatch and Helena Paul from Econexus.

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