Forests and climate: Press Releases
Leading southern NGOs slam Durban proposal to create new forest carbon market
Recent collapses in carbon markets and widespread opposition from forest peoples and non-governmental organisations have not stopped governments gathered in Durban from trying to build momentum for the creation of a new forest carbon market as part of the response to deforestation and climate change. In thie press release, the Accra Caucus on Forests and Climate Change, a coalition of around 100 civil society and indigenous peoples organisations from 38 countries, calls on governments in Durban to reject forest carbon trading.
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 Accra caucus press release_Dec 8.pdf | 125.02 KB |
Durban climate talks put forests at risk
In this press release, NGOs from all continents voice their concern over draft rules on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) finalised in Durban for the 17th Conference of the Parties (CoP 17) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The NGOs claim that the draft rules would allow governments to set their own reporting guidelines for social and environmental safeguards, as well as to propose their own reference levels against which to determine emission reductions from deforestation. There is also no process to determine if there are overall global emission reductions from deforestation.
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| Durban climate talks put forests at risk.pdf | 34.72 KB |
World Bank launches new forest carbon fund amidst secrecy and concerns for the safety of forest peoples
A press release launched at the margins of the 8th Carbon Expo in Barcelona on 31 May 2011, to tie in with the launch of a new fund from the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF). The new fund (known as the Carbon Fund) is designed to pay developing countries for reducing carbon emissions caused by the destruction of their forests.
Four industrialised countries, the European Commission, The Nature Conservancy and BP, have to date pledged a total of US$156 million to the Carbon Fund, which is expected to eventually provide performance payments to countries for curbing deforestation while investors in the fund will receive some form of forest carbon offset in return for their investment.
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| Barcelona Carbon Fund Press Release_May 31.pdf | 234.73 KB |
World Bank’s forest climate fund slammed for sidelining indigenous peoples’ rights and failing to protect forests
A press release by FERN and Forest Peoples Programme released at the 8th meeting of the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF). It launched their new report Smoke and Mirrors: a critical assessment of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility which exposes the World Bank’s failure to uphold its commitments on human rights and its engagement in never-ending changes to its social and environmental policies, weakening its accountability to affected communities and the public.
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| Vietnam Press Release.pdf | 322.57 KB |
Civil Society supports growing rejection of carbon trading to finance REDD
A press release by FERN, Friends of the Earth and the Rainforest Foundation UK outlining the key questions that need to be answered before a new UN mechanism to address deforestation can be finalised. The concerns they raise in Cancun include the lack of safeguards needed to guarantee rights for indigenous peoples and protection of natural forests, and how money for REDD will be mobilised.
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| growing rejection of carbon markets for REDD.pdf | 130.87 KB |
A red light for REDD
UNFCCC decision on REDD poised to undermine rights and increase conflict in forested areas. International NGOs call for a halt to REDD+1 until guarantees can be made that indigenous rights can be respected, it will not be funded by carbon trading and funds will not be diverted to logging and agribusiness.
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| OPEN | 437.17 KB |
Gordon Brown’s post Copenhagen rhetoric likely to turn a tragedy into a catastrophe
Four days after the Copenhagen summit ended without an agreement, NGOs are warning that Gordon Brown’s finger pointing and the growing media hum about the need for ‘major reform of the UN process’ are the first steps in a process whereby wealthy nations can unilaterally come up with “solutions” that will condemn millions to death.
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| Tragedy into a catastrophe Press Release 23 Dec 2009.pdf | 72.56 KB |
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