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Apoya a las comunidades para conservar bosques de verdad. Alto a la industria de bosques falsos
2 Septiembre, Durban: En una conferencia de prensa hoy, el Global Forest Coalition (GFC) [1] subrayo la necesidad de políticas publicas para fortalecer la habilidad de las comunidades indígenas para conservar los bosques y otros ecosistemas que forman parte de sus territorios. El papel de comunidades locales es rara vez reconocido, además sus medios de vida y territorios están amenazados por las políticas publicas que apoyan a las industrias extractivistas como la minería, plantaciones de madera y los monocultivos de …
Pospone ONU Acción para detener la deforestación por 10 años bajo la presión de la industria
[Nueva York] La Coalición Mundial por los Bosques [1] reaccionó con furia a la redacción final de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible publicados esta semana. A pesar de que los Objetivos de Desarrollo más Sostenible se acordaron en julio de 2014, el último borrador, que será adoptado por las Naciones Unidas en septiembre de 2015, como el corazón de la Agenda Post-2015 Desarrollo [2] de repente se ha ajustado para posponer una objetivo crucial para detener la deforestación por toda …
REDD+ Finance should be Public, include “Non-carbon” Benefits, says South
(cross-posted from Third World Network Bangkok Climate News Update No. 4) Bangkok, 31 August (Hilary Chiew) – Developing countries continue to stress that forest-related activities under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) must primarily be publicly funded, with many expressing doubts over market-based approaches. A significant number of developing countries also called for non-carbon benefits of forests to be included for financing under the proposed forest-related emission reduction mechanism and a departure from the emphasis placed on the carbon …
The Luna talks?
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 Messe and Moon Palace, we already knew that these talks would be not only be a complete chaos, but that they would also be disconnected from the real world. The gap between real life and the hot air, massive loopholes, false promises and other fallacies that marks these “luna-talks” was …
Biodiversity in suspense
By our executive director, Simone Lovera Halfway the second week, everybody is holding its breath here at the Biodiversity Conference of the Parties: Will the 10th Conference of the Parties end up in a Copenhagen-style collapse?
EU Green Paper on forests and climate change: missed opportunity
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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