Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts
21 March 2012
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10 March 2012
Indigenous Peoples Say No To ‘Disaster Development’ In Sarawak
It's no mere coincidence that Sarawak is one of the most impoverished states in Malaysia. For more than 30 years the governments of Malaysia and Sarawak have been far too busy ransacking the region's precious rainforest to secure and strengthen what has been there for thousands of years
By Ahni | Intercontinental Cry | March 9, 2012
02 March 2012
In the REDD: New report from Friends of the Earth International about the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership
A recent report from Friends of the Earth International takes a further look at the Australian-funded Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership. The report looks at the social and environmental effectiveness of the KFCP project and concludes that forest carbon offsets are a false solution to climate change
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 1st March 2012
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Economic growth, obesity, and the creed of greed
Who’s right? Gordon Gekko (greed is good) or Tim Jackson (prosperity without growth)? It should be a simple question, but the answer is not so clear
by Garry Egger | Feb 27 2012 by The Daly News in Energy Bulletin | Feb 27 2012
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Discriminatory Forestry Regulations and REDD projects in Indonesia
Earlier this month, a group of Indonesian and international organisations wrote to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination about the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE) project in Papua
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 24th February 2012
14 February 2012
Commission for Social Development Adopts Resolution on NEPAD
The 50th session of the Commission for Social Development (CSocD), which focused on the theme “Poverty Eradication,” concluded with the adoption of six resolutions, including on the need to mainstream disability in the development agenda and the social dimensions of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD)
Climate Change Policy & Practice | 10 February 2012
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Making the Forest Sector Transparent
Since October 2008, Global Witness has been working on a project called “Making the Forest Sector Transparent“. The project has recently released its 2011 Annual Transparency Report, looking at the transparency record in seven countries: Cameroon, Ghana, Liberia, Peru, Ecuador, Guatemala, and the Democratic Republic of Congo
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 10th February 2012
09 February 2012
Will REDD benefit Papua’s Indigenous Peoples?
In 2007, Barnabas Suebu, the Governor of Papua, was named as one ofTime magazine’s Heroes of the Environment. “We have to save the forests before it is too late. If we do that, we can help save the planet and alleviate poverty at the same time,” Suebu said
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 8th February 2012
04 February 2012
Who are the Davos class?
Just who makes up the global elite that has been gathering at Davos?
Red Pepper | 27 January 2012
5 shot in conflict over oil palm plantation in Sumatra
Five villagers were shot in Indonesia's Riau Province on the island of Sumatra during a clash in a land dispute over an oil palm plantation, reports The Jakarta Post and Republika
mongabay.com | February 03, 2012
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The stampede by wealthy states for arable land across Africa and other developing regions could trigger a series of conflicts if governments fail to protect the rights of their people, two recent studies on land grabs warn
United Press International | Feb. 3, 2012
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Emissions from palm oil biodiesel highest of major biofuels, says EU
Greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil-based biodiesel are the highest among major biofuels when the effects of deforestation and peatlands degradation are considered, according to calculations by the European Commission
mongabay.com | January 30, 2012
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Today our planet and our world are experiencing the best of times, and the worst of times. The world is experiencing unprecedented prosperity, while the planet is under unprecedented stress. Inequality between the world’s rich and poor is growing, and more than a billion people still live in poverty
by the High-level Panel on Global Sustainability | United Nations in Energy Bulletin | Jan 31 2012
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Muara Tae’s last stand against big palm oil
The fate of a Dayak community deep in the interior of East Kalimantan demonstrates how Indonesia must safeguard the rights of indigenous people if it is to meet ambitious targets to reduce emissions from deforestation
Environmental Investigation Agency | January 24, 2012
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Can REDD save the forests of Muara Tae in East Kalimantan, Indonesia?
The Dayak Benuaq Indigenous People of Muara Tae in East Kalimantan are defending their last remaining area of forest against two palm oil companies. “This is the last remaining forests that we have and the only land we have to survive. If my forests are gone, our lives will end,” says Pak Singko, a leader of the Dayak Benuaq of Muara Tae
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 26th January 2012
26 January 2012
Fracking: Anatomy of a free market failure
A recent New York Times article reported that rural landowners who had signed leases with gas and oil companies exchanging drilling rights on their property for royalty payments have discovered that they may have been misled
By Robin Hahnel | Real Climate Economics | January 12, 2012
Read more... Sphere: Related ContentNew video: “A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests”
A new video by the Global Forest Coalition and the Global Justice Ecology Project is deeply critical of REDD. Much of the criticism focusses on carbon trading, but through interviews with communities in Chiapas, Mexico, the video illustrates the perverse impacts that REDD can have on the ground
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 25th January 2012
A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests
21 January 2012
Why now? What’s next? Naomi Klein on Occupy
Naomi Klein in discussion with Occupy Wall Street activist Yotam Marom
Naomi Klein, Yotam Marom | Red Pepper | January 2012
From Davos to Dystopia
Not long ago the World Economic Forum (WEF) found itself in the sights of the global economic justice movement. At the turn of the last century, before anyone was “occupying” public spaces in protest at the growing inequalities between the top strata of society and the rest, a broad global coalition of environment, development, and peace activists were targeting the public meetings of major institutions such as the WTO, the IMF, and the G8
By Ben Zala | Foreign Policy in Focus | January 19, 2012
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Greedy Lying Bastards: US filmmaker attacks oil industry
Craig Rosebraugh's new documentary highlights the 'influence, deceit and corruption' of fossil fuel industry
by Leo Hickman | guardian.co.uk | 20 January 2012
Provocative, frank and impossible to ignore. And that's just the title
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