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Les Nations unies, sous la pression de l’industrie, reportent de 10 ans l’action visant à stopper la déforestation
[New York] La Coalition mondiale des forêts (GFC en anglais) [1] a violemment réagi au projet final des Objectifs de développement durable (ODD) publié cette semaine. Bien que la plupart des ODD avaient été convenus en juillet 2014, le dernier projet, qui sera adopté par les Nations unies en septembre 2015, au cœur même du Programme de développement post-2015 [2], a soudainement été modifié pour reporter de 10 ans, de 2020 à 2030, une cible cruciale visant à stopper la …
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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