Anne Petermann, Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project on Democracy Now!- Is REDD the New Green? Indigenous Groups Resist Market-Based Forestry Scheme to Offset Emissions

Cross-posted from Democracy Now!

A controversial proposal to protect forests worldwide is on the table at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Cancún. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), would include forests in the emerging carbon markets, allowing governments and corporations to purchase permits to protect forests as a way to offset the carbon released into the atmosphere through its industrial pollution. Though often reported as a means to stop deforestation, there is widespread opposition to REDD from environmental and indigenous groups. We speak to Anne Petermann of the Global Justice Ecology Project.