Sep 17, 2015 | Bioeconomy, Bioenergy, Deforestation, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, No GE Trees News, Rainforest, Social Media News, Tree Plantations, UN Climate COPs, Uncategorized, World Forestry Congress Blog
17 September 2015–by Anne Petermann, Executive Director, Global Justice Ecology Project & Coordinator of the Campaign to STOP GE Trees I am finally getting the chance to send out my analysis of the documents that came out of the UN Food and...
Sep 11, 2015 | Forests, GMOs, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News, Tree Plantations, World Forestry Congress Blog
Statement from the Latin America Network Against Monoculture Tree Plantations to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (F and the World Forestry Congress On the occasion of the XIV World Forestry Congress, organized by the FAO in Durban, South Africa, between 7 and...
Sep 9, 2015 | all other, Bioenergy, Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Deforestation, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, REDD, Social Media News, Tree Plantations, World Forestry Congress Blog
9 September 2015. By Anne Petermann In this blog post, I am reprinting a blog that I wrote at the conclusion of the last World Forestry Congress which I attended in Buenos Aires in 2009. Inside that sterile industry-soaked hellhole, I wrote some scathing posts about...
Sep 9, 2015 | Climate Justice, Environmental Justice, Forests, Rainforest, Social Media News, Tree Plantations, Uncategorized, World Forestry Congress Blog
9 September 2015. By Anne Petermann This morning my blog post is dedicated to Ricardo Carrere, former Coordinator of the World Rainforest Movement, who passed away in 2011. I met Ricardo here in Durban at the founding of the Durban Group for Climate Justice, which...
Sep 8, 2015 | Food Sovereignty, Forests, No GE Trees News, Rainforest, Social Media News, Tree Plantations, Uncategorized, World Forestry Congress Blog
by Anne Petermann, 8 September 2015 Today was an emotional day here in Durban at CSAP, the alternative peoples’ conference planned in parallel to the timber industry-dominated World Forestry Congress. Winnie Overbeek, Executive Director of World Rainforest...
Sep 7, 2015 | Forests, Social Media News, Tree Plantations, World Forestry Congress Blog
Today I am blogging from Durban South Africa where I am presenting at the Civil Society event organized as an alternative to the corporate and timber industry dominated World Forestry Congress, a project of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Last night I...