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Industrial Tree Plantations Company Suzano’s agenda at the UN Climate COP26: Expansion, GE Trees and FSC Certification
Industrial Tree Plantations Company Suzano’s agenda at the UN Climate COP26: Expansion, GE Trees and FSC Certification World Rainforest Movement 4 Jan 2022 Included in Bulletin 259 People arriving at Glasgow train station in November 2021 to attend COP26, the UN...
Chilean Leftist Wins Country’s Election
'We did it!' Chile's Boric seals leftist revival with election win Reuters Dec 20, 2021 By Anthony Esposito and Natalia A. Ramos Miranda SANTIAGO, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Chilean leftist Gabriel Boric won the country's presidential runoff election on Sunday, capping...
After Glasgow with Dr. Shannon Gibson
In this episode of Breaking Green we talk with Dr. Shannon Gibson, who studies the United Nation’s process to address climate change. Gibson is an Associate Professor of International Relations and Environmental Studies at...
Groups Worldwide Demand Forest Stewardship Council Protect Forests from Genetically Engineered Trees
Español abajo, Portugués abajo For Immediate Release Organizations Globally Demand Forest Stewardship Council Protect Forests from Genetically Engineered Trees New York, 15 December 2021–The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), one of the world’s largest forest...
FSC Sign On Letter Against GE Trees: English, Spanish, Portuguese
The December 14 2021 sign on letter to the Forest Stewardship Council demanding they not weaken their long-standing ban against GE trees, released in English, Spanish and Portuguese, was endorsed by 217 organizations from 74 countries. It was further endorsed by 1169...
GJEP’s December Update: Rejecting GE Trees & Threats to our Collective Future!
Global Justice Ecology Project December Update Click to make a secure online gift to GJEP. Your donation this holiday season will be doubled! 3rd International Conference, Paulo Freire: The Global Legacy! GJEP was proud to sponsor and present at the 3rd International...
Looking Back: Global Day of Action Against UN Conference of Polluters (COP) in Durban 10 Years Later
[3 December 2011] Thousands of people from around the world hit the streets of Durban, South Africa to protest the UN Climate Conference of Polluters. It was an amazing, vibrant and energetic march of people standing up to the chronic inaction of the UN Climate...
Chilean Anti-Dam Land Defender Murdered
"Javiera Rojas remembered as ‘an emblematic activist who was dedicated to the process of resistance’" By Charis McGowan, The Guardian, 2 December 2021 Excerpts from the article: Environmental activists in Chile have called for justice after a 42-year-old land defender...
New Petition to the FSC: GE Trees Must be Banned! Sign on by Dec 14
Note from GJEP: After numerous people contacted us about the convoluted and confusing nature of the Forest Stewardship Council's public consultation process, we created a petition to the FSC to enable more people to make their voices heard. From the petition: "The...