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- The Story of REDD
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Every six months, FERN produces an update looking at the present situation with regards the EU's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan, with a specific focus on VPAs. This May 2012 example looks at the six VPAs (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Ghana, Indonesia, Liberia and the Republic of Congo) that have been finalised; and two (Ghana and Cameroon) that have been ratified. Ratification of the VPAs of Liberia and the Central African Republic is expected soon.
BRUSSELS, 30 April 2012: This new press release heralds the launch of the animation “The story of REDD” which was launched during the weekend at the annual meeting of the Forest Movement Europe in Portugal. Developed by a coalition of seven European NGOs working on forest peoples’ rights,1 the animation shows that reducing deforestation will require an end to unsustainable consumption of meat, fuel, food and wood fibre, and the strengthening of forest communities’ rights to the land they live on.
This briefing note by Sustainable Development Institute Liberia (SDI) is based on analysis of the Concession Agreement between the Government of Liberia and Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), dated August 16, 2010. This brief highlights key areas of concern related to community rights, and shows the lack of justice and equality in the concession agreement.
This briefing note by Sustainable Development Institute Liberia (SDI) is based on an analysis of the Concession Agreement between the Government of Liberia and Sime Darby, dated July 23, 2009. This brief highlights key areas of concern related to community rights, and shows the lack of justice and equality in the concession agreement.
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Learn why the carbon trading gamble and ‘Clean Development Mechanism’ won’t save the planet from climate change and why African civil society is resisting. Read the second EJOLT report, “The CDM in Africa Cannot Deliver the Money”, by the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society and Dartmouth College Climate Justice Research Project. A dozen researchers from around the globe, under the guidance of Professor Patrick Bond, explain in full detail – and through case studies from South Africa, Niger, Kenya, Mozambique, Ethiopia, the DRC and Tanzania – why the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is failing.
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 ccs-dartmouth-ejolt-cdms-cannot-deliver-the-money-web.pdf | 2.73 MB |
Carbon trading has become the central pillar of international efforts to halt climate change. It is a term that most people will recognise, but far fewer will have a good understanding of what it means and how it is supposed to work. Fewer still will feel confident to judge whether it is a success or not.
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