Category Archives: REDD
Radio show: False Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Global Justice Ecology Project Communications Director Jeff Conant spoke about “false solutions to the climate crisis” yesterday on KPFA’s show Your Own Health and Fitness. Listen to the show here.
Indonesia: Destroying Tripa peat swamp forest is “an act of criminal vandalism”
By Chris Lang, 15th May 2012 Cross-Posted from REDD-Monitor “Now is the time for action not words here in Tripa. To destroy one of the last great areas of peat swamp forest in Sumatra is an act of criminal vandalism.” … Continue reading
NEW REPORT REVEALS DRIVERS OF UK BIOMASS EXPANSION AS BRAZILIAN SUZANO PAPEL E CELULOSE GAIN APPROVAL FOR LARGEST GM TREE PLANTATION TRIAL
Cross-Posted from Carbon Trade Watch London/Barcelona 14 May 2012: Earlier this month Brazilian pulp and paper giant Suzano Papel e Celulose gained approval for the world’s most advanced trial of genetically modified (GM) trees to meet the global demands of … Continue reading
Richard Sandor: Carbon trading, holy cows and sacred groves
By Chris Lang, 10th May 2012 Cross-Posted from REDD-Monitor Richard Sandor has a new book out. He’ll tell you that markets are thesolution before he hears the problem. Pollution? Climate change? Water shortages? Species extinction? Just create a new market and … Continue reading
Mexico legislation underlines transformation in global warming debate
Cross-Posted from Reuters . –Rt Hon John Gummer, Lord Deben, is President of Global Legislators Organisation (GLOBE) and former UK Secretary of State for the Environment, and Rt Hon John Prescott, Lord Prescott, is a Member of GLOBE, and former UK Deputy … Continue reading
WWF scandal (part 3): Embezzlement and evictions in Tanzania
Note: More on WWF and their nefarious doings, this time from an ally–not a climate denier… –The GJEP Team By Chris Lang, 9th May 2012 Cross-Posted from REDD-Monitor WWF is embroiled in a two-part scandal over its work in Tanzania. … Continue reading
How Climate Change Has Got Worldwide Fund for Nature Bamboozled
Note: our sharp-eyed readers have pointed out to us that author Christopher Booker, below, is one of the UK’s top climate deniers. So while we agree that WWF has strayed from its mission and is not protecting species, as they … Continue reading
Environmental activist Chut Wutty shot dead in Cambodia
Note: We at Global Justice Ecology Project believe it is very important to honor our fallen heroes in the struggle for ecological and social sanity. –The GJEP Team By Chris Lang, 27th April 2012 Cross-Posted from REDD-Monitor Chut Wutty was … Continue reading
The Bioeconomy is Bad for Biodiversity, Global Forest Coalition Warns
NOTE: This morning, the White House released its National Bioeconomy Blueprint.The press release from the White House announced the Obama Administration’s “commitment to strengthening bioscience research as a major driver of American innovation and economic growth.” The National Bioeconomy Blueprint outlines steps that agencies … Continue reading
Video: Not for Sale: The fantasy of carbon offsetting
Cross-Posted from REDD-Monitor This film, produced by WALHI (Friends of the Earth Indonesia), starts with a villager in Aceh, Indonesia, explaining carbon trading. “I don’t really understand,” he says, “but I think it’s ‘cold air’ that may be sold to … Continue reading
