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World Rainforest Movement Bulletin – Extractivist Onslaught and Carbon Markets in the Forests: Impacts and Resistances
World Rainforest Movement March 2023 Bulletin: Extractivist Onslaught and Carbon Markets in the Forests: Impacts and Resistances The recently released March 2023 Bulletin by the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) can be accessed through the WRM Website and the PDF...
REDD-Monitor: Living Carbon is selling carbon offsets with no peer-reviewed science to back its claims.
REDD-Monitor: Living Carbon is selling carbon offsets generated from planting genetically engineered trees: A false solution combined with a techno-fix on top of another false solution Chris Lang's March 18, 2023 article in REDD-Monitor is a great overview of...
Mongabay: France seeks EU okay to fund biomass plants, burn Amazon forest to power Spaceport
Mongabay: France seeks EU okay to fund biomass plants, burn Amazon forest to power Spaceport France has requested an exemption that would allow the European Space Agency and French Space Agency to construct and operate two biomass power plants in French Guiana. To...
US proposes new mega-greenwash scheme at COP27 to avoid financial commitments
As the developing world’s demands for wealthy countries to deliver climate finance grow louder than ever at COP27, the carbon offsets Kerry and other U.S. officials are endorsing looks a lot like a distraction from the issue at hand.
Carbon commodification in the Peruvian Amazon: The Kichwa People’s Struggle Against Territorial and Climate Destruction
Carbon commodification in the Peruvian Amazon: The Kichwa People’s Struggle Against Territorial and Climate Destruction Radical Ecological Democracy 1 Aug 2022 As the consequences of climate change continue to upend people’s lives all over the world, the feeble...
Press Release: Stop the Racist Conservation Model!
Press release: Stop the Racist Conservation Model! World Rainforest Movement 20 May 2022 From 24-29 May, 2022, IUCN’s 2nd Asia Parks Congress aims to set the agenda for Protected Areas in Asia for the next ten years. For big conservation NGOs, the UN, corporations,...
REDD myth no.1: Deforestation accounts for 25% of greenhouse gas emissions
Note: Yes, deforestation needs to be addresssed--and NOT through the development of massive-scale industrial monoculture tree plantations, but by addressing deforestation at its very source--namely agro-industrial expansion, especially of GMO crops, livestock...
Madre de Dios Amazon REDD Project
Madre de Dios Amazon REDD Project: EasyJet’s phantom carbon credits are generated by logging the forest By Chris Lang 14 May 2021 “It’s a scam. Neither planting trees nor avoiding deforestation will make a flight carbon neutral.” That’s Britaldo Silveira Soares-Filho,...
10 Years Later: GJEP Looks Back on Trip to Amador Hernandez
Revisiting a Darker Shade of Green 10 Years After Amador Hernandez Ten years after a trip by a documentary team assembled by Global Justice Ecology Project to the Lacandon Jungle of Chiapas, Mexico, GJEP is highlighting the resulting films and releasing a new audio...
Carbon Colonialism and REDD: Reflections on Resistance
Carbon Colonialism and REDD: Reflections on Resistance Amador Hernandez Ten Years Later CounterPunch 3o Apr 2021 Steve Taylor Ten years after a trip by a documentary team assembled by Global Justice Ecology Project (GJEP) to the Lacandon Jungle of Chiapas, Mexico,...