May 17, 2012
The Indian Law Resource Center has called on the UN Permanent forum on Indigenous Issues to ensure that the World Bank implements the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
At the 11th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, which is taking place this week in New York, [...]
May 16, 2012
Janette Bulkan recently wrote a series of six articles published in Guyana’s newspaper Stabroek News. The articles look in detail at the operations of an Indian coffee company with logging operations in Guyana.
The articles, which are posted in full below (and can be downloaded here – pdf file, 306.7 KB), ran under [...]
May 14, 2012
A round up of the week’s news on REDD, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). REDD-Monitor’s news page (REDD in the news) is updated regularly.
Corruption and REDD+: Identifying risks amid complexity
By André Standing, U4, May 2012 | Corruption and other factors can influence [...]
May 11, 2012
The REDD+ Safeguards Information System Working Group has produced a briefing paper on safeguards information systems. The briefing was produced ahead of the climate meetings in May 2012 in Bonn.
The REDD+ Safeguards Information System Working Group is a North-South group of civil society organisations and indigenous organisations working on REDD+, formed [...]
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May 8, 2012
May 6, 2012
A round up of the week’s news on REDD, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). REDD-Monitor’s news page (REDD in the news) is updated regularly.
Bioenergy and REDD+: Opportunities and Challenges
UNEP Issue Paper No.7, 2012 | How do bioenergy policies relate to the REDD+ [...]
May 3, 2012
There are plenty good reasons for not eating meat. Cancer, heart disease, diabetes, meat glue, pink slime, antibiotics, steroids, pesticides, heavy metals, salmonella, E. coli, mad cow disease and the inhumane treatment of livestock – to mention just a few.
Another is climate change. Robert Goodland and Jeff Anhang argue that livestock accounts [...]
May 1, 2012
A new animated film about REDD was launched yesterday at the annual meeting of the Forest Movement Europe in Portugal. “This film attempts to explain the key issues in a simple to understand way,” says Wolfgang Kuhlmann of ARA, one of the seven NGOs that produced the film.
“Global deforestation cannot be solved [...]
April 30, 2012
A round up of the week’s news on REDD, in chronological order with short extracts (click on the title for the full article). REDD-Monitor’s news page (REDD in the news) is updated regularly.
23 April 2012
Companies try to reduce humanity’s footprint
By Sarah Murray, [...]
April 27, 2012
Chut Wutty was the director of the Natural Resource Protection Group and one of Cambodia’s leading campaigners against illegal logging and land grabs. He was shot dead by police on Wednesday.
He was guiding two journalists from the Cambodia Daily to investigate illegal logging in the Cardamom Mountains in Koh Kong province. In [...]