Earth Minute: Why Doha is not where climate justice will happen
Global Justice Ecology Project teams up with the Sojourner Truth show on KPFK Pacifica Los Angeles for a weekly Earth Minute each Tuesday and a weekly Earth Watch interview each Thursday. This week’s...
View ArticleCarbon credits row could derail UN climate talks, says Brazil
By Fiona Harvey, December 2 2012. Source: The Guardian Brazil has said a row over carbon credits could derail the United Nations climate change negotiations taking place in Qatar this week. The row...
View ArticleMaking Contact Radio: Saving or Selling the Planet? REDD, Climate Change and...
Note: This episode of Making Contact is based upon the Global Justice Ecology Project DVD “A Darker Shade of Green: REDD Alert and the Future of Forests,” produced earlier this year. To order a copy of...
View ArticleDoha: Forest groups denounce false solutions to forest loss at UN climate summit
From Global Forest Coalition, Biofuelwatch and Global Justice Ecology Project For immediate release – 6 December 2012 UK alleges it will address drivers of climate change – but aims to subsidise a...
View ArticleDoha climate talks: failed ambition and unfulfilled promises
From the Center for International Environmental Law DOHA, QATAR—Today, countries again recognized the need for urgent action to respond to climate change, and again failed to take that action, says the...
View ArticleOn Not Attending the UN Climate Conference in Doha
By Anne Petermann, Executive Director, Global Justice Ecology Project For the first time since 2004, Global Justice Ecology Project did not sent any representatives to the annual UN Climate Conference...
View ArticleBrazil farmers eye gains on eco exchange
Note: Advanced within the United Nations as a pillar of a free-market ‘Green Economy,’ markets in ‘environmental assets and services’ such as BVRio have been denounced by social movements, Indigenous...
View ArticleTen things communities should know about REDD+
By Chris Lang, December 12 2012. Source: REDD-Monitor World Rainforest Movement has produced a booklet aimed at informing communities about the “serious problems that a REDD project can cause for the...
View ArticleREDD at COP18, Doha: At a crossroads or stuck in neoliberalism’s dead end?
By Chris Lang, 14th December 2012. Source: REDD-Monitor REDD negotiations came to a grinding halt at the end of the first week of COP18 in Doha when Brazil and Norway disagreed over the verification...
View ArticleAudio: Climate change resistance with Anne Petermann of Global Justice...
Note: Anne Petermann is the Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project, and directs the international STOP Genetically Engineered Trees Campaign -The GJEP Team December 17, 2012. Source:...
View ArticlePhoto essay and article–Colonialism and the Green Economy: The hidden side of...
Note: GJEP broke the story about the Chiapas-Acre-California REDD deal with our own investigative trip to Chiapas in March of 2011. Jeff Conant, former Communications Director for GJEP, along with...
View Article‘Carbon pirate’ acquires Amazon resources
Note: REDD-Monitor has been covering this story since April 2011, when carbon cowboy David Nilsson was first denounced by a number of indigenous organizations. –The GJEP Team By Mariana Sanchez,...
View ArticleIndigenous protests return to Panama
By Robin Llewellyn, January 9 2013. Source: Intercontinental Cry The Ngäbe and Buglé peoples are holding protests today to highlight the Panamanian government’s non-compliance with peace accords that...
View ArticleGeographies of evasion: The case of the Oddar Meanchey REDD project in Cambodia
By Chris Lang, 11th January 2013. Source: REDD-Monitor Cambodia’s forests face huge threats from illegal logging, mining and land concessions for plantation crops for export like rubber and sugar....
View ArticleColonialism and the green economy: Villagers defy pressure to forfeit farms...
Note: This article in Truthout came about with the assistance of Jeff Conant, GJEP’s then-Communications Director. GJEP ED Anne Petermann is quoted below. The article follows up on an investigation...
View ArticleWhy is Norway paying Guyana for REDD?
By Chris Lang, January 17 2013. Source: REDD-Monitor In December 2012, the Government of Norway approved a further US$45 million for Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy, bringing the total so far...
View ArticleCamel-slaughter plan rejected for Australian carbon credits
Note: Boy, the real polluters will come up with any scheme, however harebrained or disgusting, to avoid addressing the real cause of climate change–industrial emissions. –The GJEP Team January 16 2013....
View ArticleEU carbon price crashes to record low
Note: The flagship climate policy has so far awarded the biggest polluters to keep on polluting…maybe this is a wake-up call to give up on carbon markets altogether. -The GJEP Team By Damian...
View ArticleWorld Bank spending on forests fails to curb poverty, auditors claim
Note: Yet another interesting report by World Bank evaluators damning the policies of the Bank that they are sure to ignore. –The GJEP Team By John Vidal, January 29 2013. Source: The Guardian The...
View ArticleGuyana court ruling violates indigenous peoples’ rights
Note: Guyana is set to receive tens of millions of dollars from Norway and other investors through the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund, which is managed by the World Bank. In addition to forest carbon...
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