Media Release: Forest campaigners welcome opposition to REDD+ and other market-based approaches at Rio+20
Rio de Janeiro– While sharing the view of other civil society groups that the outcomes of Rio+20 will contribute little to addressing the multiple crises humanity is facing today, the Global Forest Coalition [1] has welcomed the opposition of many developing countries to market-based approaches like REDD+ [2]. Thanks to the opposition of developing countries many proposals promoting such “green economy” approaches were deleted from the text. A new GFC report written by its Latin American NGO focal point Censat Agua …
