Apr 23, 2021 | Brazil, Carbon Markets / Carbon Offsets, Climate Justice, Deforestation, False Solutions, Featured, Forests, Latin America, Social Media News, UN Climate COPs
The Summits of the Destroyers-in-Chief: We must resist the corporate takeover of the UN’s food, biodiversity and climate agenda 22 Apr, 2021 By Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition The US is back. Back in the Paris Agreement, and back to faithfully promoting the...
May 27, 2020 | Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Featured, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Rainforest, Social Media News
Photo courtesy of World Rainforest Movement The Coronavirus is enabling a mass increase in logging globally, as criminal groups and illegal loggers take advantage of the disruptions associated with the pandemic. In the month of March, more than 2,500 square miles of...
May 12, 2020 | COVID: All Posts, Daily Digests of COVID-19 News, Forests, Rainforest, Social Media News, Uncategorized
CLIMATE CRISIS WEEKLY: TRUMP HAS ROLLED BACK 98 ENVIRONMENTAL RULES — NYT (9 MAY 2020) Elektrek: Donald Trump promised to deregulate environmental and climate policies, and he’s delivered. Why did he want to do that? Because he thinks the rules are unnecessary, that...
Jan 7, 2019 | Brazil, Climate Justice, Featured, Indigenous Peoples, Social Media News, Videos
Global Justice Ecology Project received this video from a Brazilian activist on the ground there. The video comes from the Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil (APIB). It is a strong critique against Brazil’s newly inaugurated right wing...
Jan 2, 2019 | Brazil, Earth Radio, Environmental Justice, Featured, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Rainforest, Social Media News
DEC. 22, 2018 – As Brazil prepares to inaugurate Jair Bolsonaro as president, we the undersigned organizations wish to voice our deep concern regarding positions held by the president-elect that represent a serious threat to democracy, human rights and the...