Forêts et Changement Climatique

The government has taken sides in the struggle to save the Ojnare forest (Sweden)

13 août, 2012

(cross-posted) Press release from Protect the Forest 2012-08- 13 The organization Protect the Forest criticizes the government for their implicit support for the destruction of the Ojnare forest, on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. Members of Protect the Forest are actively taking part in the struggle against the plans for a lime quarry in the area, and the organization encourages others to take part in the protests. The logging attempts have been held off for a week …

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Sustainable Energy for All Initiative – Energy expansion at any cost − Reflections on the UN “Sustainable Energy for All Day, 20th June –

21 juin, 2012

According to Chad Holliday, Chair of the Bank of America and Co-Chair of the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative (SEFA) is “the greatest public-private partnership of all” – approaching $50…

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Rio+20 agrees on outcome document

20 juin, 2012

Admittedly I am totally surprised, but despite the tremendous chaos at this conference here the Governments at Rio+20 here seem to have all agreed on the attached outcome document yesterday,…

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4th Agriculture and Rural Development Day – Promoting the “Cerrado [agribusiness] model”

20 juin, 2012

“Land grab may work well for everybody and must not be rejected with knee-jerk reactions.” – Rachel Kyte, World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development and CGIAR Fund Council Chair…

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Press Release: GMO Trees and the Green Economy: Green Deserts for All?

19 juin, 2012

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil–While the highly controversial “Sustainable Energy for All” initiative [1] is underway today at Energy Day at the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, the international STOP GE…

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Cumbre de la Tierra Rio+20 Intoxicada

18 juin, 2012

Cerca de 50,000 personas se reúnen en Rio de Janeiro 20 años después de la primera Cumbre de la Tierra realizada en 1992. Es importante resaltar la importancia de este…

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Is the G20 taking over the Earth Summit agenda?

17 juin, 2012

Cross-posted from GJEP's blog climateconnections.org Press statement by the Civil Society Facilitating Committee of the Rio+20 Peoples’ Summit, June 16, 2012:  It’s no coincidence that the G20 summit is taking…

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Green Economy: in the light of climate negotiations

14 juin, 2012

Since a couple of years ago, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is proposing to the world a new economic paradigm, known today as “Green Economy”. Since 2009, this program…

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Media Release: Civil Society Groups Denounce Sustainable Energy for All Initiative promoted at Rio+20 Earth Summit

12 juin, 2012

As the final negotiations for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development Rio+20 conference get underway in Rio de Janeiro, almost 50 civil society groups have published an Open letter denouncing…

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Informe del Grupo de Articulación Internacional de la Cumbre de los Pueblos por Justicia Social y Ambiental por la Unidad y la Movilización de los Pueblos en Defensa de La Vida y los Bienes Comunes, la Justicia Social y Ambiental, Contra la Mercantilización De La Naturaleza Y La “Economía Verde”

22 mai, 2012

(tomado de http://cupuladospovos.org.br/es/2012/05/lo-que-esta-en-juego-en-rio20/) A un mes de la conferencia de Naciones Unidas Río+20, los pueblos del mundo no vemos resultados positivos del proceso de negociación que se está realizando en la…

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Media Release: International Environmental Organizations Condemn IKEA’s Logging of Old-growth Forests in Russia

16 mai, 2012

The Swedish-owned international furniture retailer, IKEA, is logging old-growth forests and other high conservation value forests in Russian Karelia[1] through its subsidiary Swedwood. A petition has been launched by Swedish NGO…

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About Perversities and Other People’s Money

7 mai, 2012

Written from SBSTTA-16 in Montreal, Canada on Wednesday, 2nd May, 2012 (originally published in ECO-the newsletter of the CBD Alliance) The discussion on incentive measures came and went with the…

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Media Release: The Bioeconomy is Bad for Biodiversity, Global Forest Coalition Warns

26 avr., 2012

Obama’s Plan Bodes Ill for Human Rights and the Environment, New Report Finds As U.S. President Obama announced his new “National Bioeconomy Blueprint” today, the Global Forest Coalition [1] unveiled…

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40th issue of Forest Cover, the newsletter of the Global Forest Coalition

23 avr., 2012

We present the most recent version of the Global Forest Coalition’s newsletter in intergovernmental forest-related policy processes: Forest Cover no.40. This issue includes articles referring to the past UNFCCC-COP17 in Durban, South Africa addressing…

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Los Agrocombustibles Agudizan el Cambio Climático y la Inequidad

12 avr., 2012

Los agrocombustibles son una propuesta que toma fuerza como formula para enfrentar el cambio climático y garantizar la transición hacia un nuevo modelo energético, su implementación en los países en…

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UN Intersessional Report: How will the Green Economy affect women?

9 avr., 2012

(cross-posted) Keith Brunner from Gears of Change Youth Media Project reports back from the side event “Women’s critical perspectives on the ‘green economy” carried out during the  UN Rio+20 intercessional (March25-27) at…

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First Impressions from the Preparatory Meetings for Rio+20

4 avr., 2012

Returning from the UN headquarters in New York, after attending the UN Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, informal- informal consultations from 17-23 March followed by the 3rd intersessional preparatory meetings…

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