Summary of new UN report that documents the impact of climate change on land and agriculture — and how land misuse accelerates climate change.
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End human rights abuses in forest conservation
“The National Park model of excluding indigenous peoples and local communities is fundamentally flawed. We have witnessed countless examples of human rights abuses in conservation projects.”
Environmental injustice
New maps of land destruction show why caravans flee Central America
Detailed maps show worldwide land degradation, including the deforestation that is now forcing migrants to leave Guatemala and Honduras
Green reading for reds
Ecosocialist Bookshelf, September 2017
Five new books for green-left activists, on urban climate change, past mass extinctions, tropical rainforests, religious anti-science, and the end of Arctic ice.
Interview
Capitalism driving biodiversity loss to point of no return
Ashley Dawson: ‘Today’s mass extinction crisis is one of the clearest indications we have of the fundamental irrationality and destructiveness of the capitalist system.’
Ecosocialist resources, May 2015
Ecosocialist Resources, published monthly in Climate & Capitalism, links to articles, reports, talks and videos that are relevant to our mission.
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Vandana Shiva replies to New Yorker magazine; Securing forests, securing rights; GMO contamination; Cost of climate change adaptation rises; Ecological civilization debate in China
Kenya evicts Indigenous people for forest offset scam
The UN and World Bank are supporting the forced expulsion of the Sengwer people from their ancestral lands. The land-grabbing REDD scheme must be stopped.
Video: Exposing the REDD hoax
The UN promotes a perverse and potentially genocidal forest offset scam
Algonquin resistance forces Quebec to stop illegal logging
Direct action and public solidarity have forced the Quebec government and a major lumber company to stop illegal logging the lands of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake
Rio +20 has nothing to say on REDD (and not much on anything else)
If the draft text is accepted in its current form, Rio +20 will go down in history to be followed inevitably by the word failure.
Barriere Lake Algonquin acquitted; logging company lies exposed
Norman Matchewan of the Algonquins of Barriere Lake has been acquitted of charges related to a 2009 blockade protecting his people’s territory from illegal logging. Representatives of the logging company and the Quebec government were exposed on the stand as liars
Video: Is REDD a real solution for deforestation?
The UN and the World Bank say that REDD will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by rewarding forest owners in the South for not cutting down trees. This new animated film shows that the reality is very different.
A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests
Global Justice Ecology Project and Global Forest Coalition announce the release of the DVD of “A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests.” In the month since we released it online, A Darker Shade of Green has been viewed more than 3,500 times. The DVD edition, produced for use in classrooms, […]
UN biodiversity plan: neoliberal measures to commodify nature
Acción Ecológica is gathering signatures for this letter, in advance of the Global Dialogue Seminar on Scaling up Finance for Biodiversity, to be held in Quito, Ecuador, March 6-9 ++++++++ Open letter to the secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the governments of Japan, India, Norway, Sweden and Ecuador On 6 to 9 March 2012 […]
Attenborough asks corporations to protect wilderness from poor people
Since we can’t stop poor people from breeding, let’s build fences to keep them out. And let’s ask the world’s biggest polluters to pay for the fences. (more…)
Indigenous peoples demand a halt to UN forest trading plan
“REDD+ threatens the survival of Indigenous Peoples and forest-dependent communities and could result in the biggest land grab of all time.” (more…)
Amazonian peoples' report exposes the grim reality of REDD
New report by Amazonian indigenous peoples exposes the reality of REDD+ in Peru: Land conflicts, carbon piracy and violations of indigenous peoples’ rights (more…)
Indigenous statement condemns REDD
“We call upon all people committed to climate justice to support life, and we implore the global community to take responsibility for reducing emission of green house gases at the source and to reject REDD+ as a false solution that breads a new form of climate racism.” (more…)
Report: Get forests out of carbon trading; Stop REDD
Including forests in cap-and-trade plans undermine indigenous peoples’ rights, while doing nothing to cut emissions (more…)