Climate Change

 

 

Carbon Neutral Magicians
WRM Briefing - November 2008

From REDD to HEDD
WRM Briefing . November 2008

"Climate Change Convention: Sinks that stink"
selection of articles published in the WRM's Bulletin.  Also available in Spanish.

Carbon Sink Plantations in the Ecuadorian Andes
Impacts of the Dutch FACE-PROFAFOR monoculture tree plantations' project on indigenous and peasant communities. Joint research of Acción Ecológica Ecuador and WRM - May 2005
Also available in Spanish

The carbon shop: planting new problems. Briefing paper by Larry Lohmann, WRM - 2000. Spanish, French and Portuguese versions.

Tree Trouble - A Compilation of Testimonies on the Negative Impact of Large-scale Monoculture Tree Plantations prepared for the sixth Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention on Climate Change by Friends of the Earth International in cooperation with the World Rainforest Movement and FERN.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Poznan
1-12 December 2008


WRM on Climate Change

Radical New Agenda Needed to Achieve Climate Justice - Poznan statement from the Climate Justice Now! alliance - 12 December 2008

Climate Justice Now! Network: Radical New Agenda Urgently Needed - For Immediate Release - Friday 12 December 2008

Indigenous Peoples Call for the Immediate Suspension of All REDD Projects - Press Release: Friday, 12 December 2008

Endorse UN Global Climate Fund: International Call for Fund Outside World Bank - Over 160 Citizen Groups from Dozens of Countries - December 11

Groups unite to challenge the definition of forests under UNFCCC/REDD - Press Release 11 December 2008

Statement of the International Indigenous Peoples Forum on Climate Change - SBSTA - 10 December

Was the Indigenous Peoples Statement at the UN Climate Change Conference Censored? SBSTA - 10 December

A call for the Philippine government: Implement Measures to help people adapt to Climate Change now! - The Center for Environmental Concerns-Philippines

Indigenous Peoples, local communities and NGO's outraged at the removal of rights from UNFCCC decision on REDD - 9 December

Corporate takeover at Poznan: some facts - 9 December 2008

Video and pictures of FOEI action against World Bank - 9 December 2008

Gender Justice is Climate Justice - Press Release - Poznan, 8 December 2008

Climate Change: Forests Debate Dominates Talks - By Wambi Michael, IPS reporting on Climate Change

Tree monocultures don’t save the climate. Monoculture tree plantations must not be considered as climate mitigation measures and should be excluded from any reward system - Statement by Climate Justice Now - Poznan, 8 December.

Offsets Under Kyoto: a dirty deal for the South - By Kevin Smith - 5 December 2008

GenderCC Contribution to the UNFCCC on REDD - Friday 5 December. Also available in Spanish

UNFCCC: Don't trade off climate! Food sovereignty can cool down the earth! - Via Campesina position on UNFCCC - 5 December

UN Climate Deal Could Pay for Forest Destruction. Carbon Karma Fortune-telling Action Foretells REDD Profits - Joint release: Global Forest Coalition, The Wilderness Society
and Global Justice Ecology Project - 5 December

Indigenous Peoples Fight for Participation in Global Climate Talks Encouraged by limited progress achieved, support of some parties - Press Statement - 8 December 2008

Clean Development Mechanism: dump it, don´t expand it - By Climate Justice Now!, 5 December 2008 Also available in Spanish

Forest For People - Stabilising the Climate

As UN Climate Change Meeting Begins New Voices on Climate Change Initiative Launched - Press Release by Global Justice Ecology Project -1 December, 2008

World Bank's forest and carbon fund is failing forests and peoples - Press release - 1 December

KlimaX rocks the COP15 summit site - Article with photos

Climate Change: Save the Planet from Capitalism - Letter from Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia. November 28, 2008

Photo galleries

World Bank action in Poznan

Civil society demonstrates in Poznan against World Bank role in climate negotiations
and financing extractive and fossil fuel projects
by Elena Gerebizza
more photos here

Poznan 2008-COP/MOP

By Michael Dorsey

 

 

FERN Reports and Briefings on REDD

From Green Ideals to REDD money. A brief history of schemes to save
forests for their carbon. November 2008, 6 pages. A short overview of latest developments with some basic conclusions and recommendations

An overview of selected REDD proposals. November 2008, 24 pages. This report presents the different REDD country proposals that are currently on the table and highlights the differences between them and whether or not they are based on carbon trading and whether or not they respect rights of local communities

Cutting Corners. World Bank's forest and carbon fund fails forests and peoples. November 2008, 24 pages. This joint FPP-FERN report analysis nine country concept notes presented to the World Bank (so called R-PINs) to get REDD money and finds that none of them has been developed in a proper consultative process, nor do they address issues as rights and governance and the whole process has been in violation of the Bank's own procedures and guidelines.

Other FERN's REDD related publications are available here

More analysis on REDD

Seeing ‘REDD’? - Forests, climate change mitigation and the rights of indigenous peoples - Update for Poznan (UNFCCC COP 14) - 1 December 2008 Advance draft
- By Tom Griffiths

The hottest REDD issues: Rights, Equity, Development, Deforestation and Governance by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities - prepared by the Task Force on Communities and REDD of the Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy of IUCN in collaboration with the Global Forest Coalition. It is based on some of the best analysis produced by CEESP members on REDD, rights and equity, and the importance of Indigenous Territories and Community Conserved Areas (ICCAs), and the GFC Life as Commerce report. Also available in Spanish

REDD myths: a critical review of proposed mechanisms to reduce emissions from
deforestation and degradation in developing countries - By Friends of the Earth International. Also available in Spanish and French

Guiding Principles & Policy Recommendations for REDD negotiations at COP 14 - International Youth Delegation

Reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries: approaches to stimulate action. Subsidiary Body on Scientific, and Technological Advice, Agenda item 5 - Contribution by the Global Forest Coalition

Download here the 2 sided and the folded flyer about REDD (in english, spanish and portuguese) which was circulated during the UNFCCC by Earth People

 


TWN Pozan news update

Update No. 6: Continuing differences in technology and financial mechanism discussions by Lim Li Lin & Juan Hoffmaister (04 Dec 08

Update No. 5: Further discussions on "shared vision" in AWG LCA workshop by Meena Raman (04 Dec 08)

Update No. 4: Developing countries disappointed over LDC fund by Juan Hoffmaister & Chee Yoke Ling (03 Dec 08)

Update No. 3: Parties debate "shared vision" in UNFCCC workshop by Martin Khor (03 Dec 08)

Update No. 2: "Shared vision" debate dominates Poznan's opening plenary by Meena Raman (02 Dec 08)

Update No. 1: Key issues dominating the Poznan talks by Martin Khor (01 Dec 08)

Other tools
Forests, deforestation and plantations from a gender perspective
leaflet by GCC - Front and back

Converting forest to plantations is deforestation
 Poster by The Wilderness Society
More posters here and here

 

Blogs

Blogging from Poznan
CEO's Yiorgos Vassalos reports from Poznan, where the UN climate summit reaches its climax in the end of this week. More than 1400 industry lobbyists are present at the summit, representing over 80
corporate groupings. One of the biggest corporate players in Poznan is the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), with 65 lobbyists. Read more here:
http://climatecrashers.blogspot.com/

Blogging from inside the Brussels Bubble
CEO's new blog with reflections on remarkable events happening in the Brussels EU quarter starts with a report on the European Agenda Summit 2008 which took place last week. Read more here:
http://brusselsbubble.blogspot.com/

Earth Peoples
http://earthpeoples.org/blog/

Friends of the Earth in Poznan
http://www.foei.org/en/blog

 

Links

Climate Action
www.climateaction09.org

COP 14 Official Site
http://www.cop14.gov.pl/index.php?lang=EN

Earth Peoples
http://earthpeoples.org/blog/

Gender CC Network
http://www.gendercc.net/

Global Forest Coalition
http://www.globalforestcoalition.org

Global Justice Ecology Project
http://www.globaljusticeecology.org/

REDD Monitor
http://www.redd-monitor.org/

STOP GE Trees Campaign
http://www.nogetrees.org

TNI
http://www.tni.org/

Via Campesina, the International Youth Delegation
http://www.viacampesina.org

The Wilderness Society
http://www.wilderness.org.au

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP 13
 Bali, Indonesia, December 2007

In 1992, governments acknowledged that climate change was real and that something needed to be done to avoid a major catastrophe. As a result, they signed and ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Fifteen years have passed and the Convention’s Conference of the Parties will meet for its 13th time in Bali, Indonesia, from 3-14 December 2007.

Bali Forest Outcomes Trample Indigenous Peoples' & Local Communities' Rights. False "Solutions" to Climate Change Condemned at the UNFCCC - Press Release - 14 December 2007

Arroyo green-washing privatization of power industry - Kalikasan-PNE Press Release - 14 December 2007

Groups Protest World Bank - Say Forest Carbon Partnership Facility Threatens Forests and Indigenous Peoples - For Immediate Release 11 December, 2007 Also Available in Spanish

Closing Day at the Solidarity Village For a Cool Planet - Exposing Flase Solutions, Building Real Answers, Climate Justice For All -- For Immediate Release 10 December, 2007

World Bank Hands Off Forests - Press Release by Friends of the Earth International - World Rainforest Movement - Global Forest Coalition - December 10, 2007

Integrating gender into climate change policy: challenges, constraints and perspectives - Side Event | Dec 10 - Presentation and discussion of gender perspectives on: Future Climate Regime | Financing Adaptation and Mitigation | Avoided Deforestation

Protecting the world’s forests needs more than just money - NGO / IPO Declaration on REDD

Press Conference - 7 December 2007 - 11:30 AM - Indigenous leaders present at the UNFCCC will speak about the systematic exclusion against indigenous peoples from the official UNFCCC process.

Women’s milestones for the Bali roadmap - Press Release by GENDER CC– Women for Climate Justice - December 7th, 2007

Indigenous Peoples shut out of Climate Change Negotiations - 7 December 2007

Joint press release by World Rainforest Movement, Watch Indonesia, Walhi Jambi, Grupo de Reflexion Rural, Biofuelwatch and African Biodiversity Network - 5th December 2007 - Bali

  • Alter-Eco -Alter-Eco is published by a group of non-governmental organizations, indigenous people's organizations and social movements at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change COP-13. The groups came together to make a unified call in support of real solutions to climate change and against the false market-based solutions to climate change that are being implemented under the Kyoto Protocol.

    Fourth Issue - 14th December 2007

    Third Issue - 10th December 2007

    Second Issue - 6th December 2007

First issue - 4th December 2007 - Also Available in Spanish

Alter Eco Web Site - News from the UN Climate Conference in Bali - http://www.altereconews.org

  • Gender and Climate Change Network - Women for Climate Justice - Position Papers

Intervention to be submited to the 14th December plenary

Gender: Women from all regions of the World Strongly Oppose Including Nuclear Energy into the CDM - By Gender CC and WECF

Take 11 Key Steps Towards Gender & Climate Justice

Gender: Missing Links in Financing Climate Change adaptation and Mitigation

Protecting Tropical Forests and Gender Justice

  • The Indigenous Peoples at COP 13

Statement of the International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change - at the high level segment of the 13th Conference of the Parties and the 3rd Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol of The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - December 14, 2007 - Bali, Indonesia

Statement on Climate Change (IFIPCC) - By The International Forum of Indigenous Peoples
The 13th Session of Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC

SBSTA 27, agenda item 5/REDD - By the The International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change (IFIPCC) - The 13th Session of Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC - Also Available in Spanish

SBSTA 27, agenda item 2 - Statement of the International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate Change and the International Alliance of the Indigenous Peoples and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests - The 13th Session of Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC

The 13th round of the climate game in Bali - Editorial, WRM Bulletin nº 124 - November 2007

Food, Forests and Fuel : From False to Real Solutions for the Climate Change - By Dr. Vandana Shiva - November 28, 2007

Global Justice Ecology Project - http://www.globaljusticeecology.org/

Global Forest Coalition - http://www.wrm.org.uy/GFC/

Carbon Trade Watch - http://www.carbontradewatch.org/

Transnational Institute - http://www.tni.org/

FERN - http://www.fern.org/

The Corner House - http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP 12
Nairobi, November 2006

    The 12th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change are having a meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, from 6 to 17 November. Unfortunately, this Convention has until now shown that human greed has prevailed over human intelligence, and has been dominated by interests that care too little about the environment and people and too much about money.

    Here there are some message's on behalf of the people.

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SPECIAL WRM BULLETINS FOCUSED ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Special Bulletin Nº 136 - November 2008 (complete version)
Any struggle for protecting forests is an action in favour of the climate; any opposition to polluting and destructive megaprojects is an action in favour of the climate; any complaint against projects affecting nature is an action in favour of the climate. The articles included in this bulletin describe very diverse realities and situations, but all of them, without exception, have a link with climate protection. In spite of this fact, what communities receive is not applause but repression and, in the best of cases, disregard.

Special Bulletin Nº 128 - March 2008 (complete version)
Life on Earth found its origin in water. And water continues to sustain all forms of life. This precious natural element has been respected and valued by all cultures except for the present dominant market-based culture which is increasingly converting water into a mere resource to be used and abused. Forests are a key component of the global water cycle. Forest degradation and destruction affects water reservoirs which together influence the earth’s climate. In turn, climate change is impacting on forests, water and people. The main drivers of deforestation  --transnational corporations-- by appropriating and destroying water and forests are putting at stake our common future on Earth. We intend this month’s bulletin serves as a tool to highlight these connections and raise local communities’ denounces.

Special Bulletin Nº 128 - March 2008 (complete version)
Life on Earth found its origin in water. And water continues to sustain all forms of life. This precious natural element has been respected and valued by all cultures except for the present dominant market-based culture which is increasingly converting water into a mere resource to be used and abused. Forests are a key component of the global water cycle. Forest degradation and destruction affects water reservoirs which together influence the earth’s climate. In turn, climate change is impacting on forests, water and people. The main drivers of deforestation  --transnational corporations-- by appropriating and destroying water and forests are putting at stake our common future on Earth. We intend this month’s bulletin serves as a tool to highlight these connections and raise local communities’ denounces.

Special Bulletin Nº 124 - November 2007 (complete version)
Climate change is not only already happening and impacting on the lives and livelihoods of millions of people, but is set to accelerate if actions to address the problem are not urgently implemented. The resulting extreme winds and temperatures, floods, droughts and rise in sea levels will affect increasing numbers of people, millions of which will be forced to migrate and become environmental refugees.

Special Bulletin Nº 76 - November 2003 (complete version)
This issue of the WRM bulletin is entirely focused on the crucial issue of climate change. Its aim is to provide people with relevant information and analysis as a means of empowerment to counter the false solutions being promoted by governments to suit the interest of corporations. Climate change is affecting us all and will affect future generations even more. Life on Earth is at stake and civil society must intervene to force governments to change course. We hope that the information contained in this bulletin will encourage people to include climate change in their social and environmental agendas in order to increase pressure for making true solutions possible.

Special Bulletin Nº 37 - August 2000 (complete version)
The Conference of the Parties of the Framework Convention on Climate Change -preceeded by a meeting of its Subsidiary Bodies in September in Lyon- will take place in The Hague in November. The obscure language used in the climate talks -and the even more obscure objectives of many governments and businesses- make it necessary to translate what's being negotiated into understandable concepts in order to facilitate very much needed public participation in the debate. As a contribution to that end, we have focused this issue of the WRM Bulletin entirely on this matter, of vital importance for the future of humanity as a whole.

Special Bulletin Nº 16 - October 1998 (complete version)
The Conference of the Parties (COP4) of the Climate Change Convention will be meeting during the first two weeks of November in Buenos Aires. Much of the discussion will concentrate on the role of forests as carbon sinks and many negotiations will include deals between Northern and Southern countries on how to trade emissions and sinks: we emit, you sink.

STATEMENTS

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
  • Carbon Trading A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power - by Larry Lohmann (editor) - October 2006
    The globe is warming. The more carbon dioxide pours into the air, the less stable the climate becomes and the more urgent it becomes to leave remaining fossil fuels in the ground. Yet the dominant neoliberal approach to the crisis -- carbon trading -- is failing. It is slowing social and technological change; dispossessing ordinary people in the South of their lands and futures; undermining already-existing positive approaches; and prolonging industrialised societies' dependence on fossil fuels. This book lays out the case and describes what can be done.
  • Greenpepper Magazine - The Earth Crimes Newspaper is a special edidion for the COP 6.5 Climate treaty in Bon and explores what is and isnt being done about this world issue. July 2001

LINKS

 

The official Climate Change Convention web page:
http://www.unfccc.int

Third World Network info service on Climate Change
http://www.twnside.org.sg/climate.htm

Cop 12 web site:
 http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_12/items/3754.php

Entre Pueblos - Noticias del Cambo Climático
http://www.pangea.org/epueblos/modules.php?name=BookCatalog&op=category&catid=17

Kyoto Protocol:
http://www.unfccc.de/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.html

SinksWatch:
http://www.sinkswatch.org/

The Corner House
http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/subject/climate/

WRM Plantations Campaign: Carbon Sink Plantations
http://www.wrm.org.uy/plantations/carbon.html

Equity Watch - A Climate Newsletter from the South
http://www.cseindia.org/html/cmp/climate/ew/index.htm

CDM Watch
http://www.cdmwatch.org/

Climate Action Network
http://www.climatenetwork.org/

Climate Ark
http://www.ClimateArk.org/

Climate Justice Now!
http://www.climatejustice.blogspot.com/

Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation
http://www.dhf.uu.se/

FERN - Climate change: the forest connection
http://www.fern.org/pages/climate/intro.html

Friends of the Earth - Climate Change Campaign
http://www.foei.org/climate/index.html  

Foro del Buen Ayre
http://www.foroba.org.ar/

Transnational Institute (TNI)
http://www.tni.org/

A Seed - Rising Tide: A Coalition for Climate Justice
http://www.risingtide.nl/index.html

Rising Tide UK
http://www.risingtide.org.uk/

Climate Institute
http://www.climate.org/

Indymedia Climate
http://www.climateimc.org/

One World - Climate Change Campaign
http://www.oneworld.net/campaigns/climatechange/index.html

Corporate Europe Observatory
http://www.corporateeurope.org/

Corporate Watch 
http://www.corpwatch.org/

Panorama Energético (only in Spanish)
 http://www.panoramaenergetico.com/default.htm

Essential Action and Global Exchange
 http://www.essentialaction.org/shell/report/ 

Ozone Action
http://www.ozone.org/ 

Prototype Carbon Fund
http://www.prototypecarbonfund.org/

Eco - Climate Action Network Newsletter
http://www.climatenetwork.org/eco/  

Global Commons Institute
 http://www.gci.org.uk/ 

 Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Equity Watch - http://www.cseindia.org/html/cmp/climate/ew/index.htm

Eco Equity
 http://www.ecoequity.org/

Gender and climate change
http://www.gencc.interconnection.org/index.htm

Rivers, Dams and Climate Change
http://www.irn.org/programs/greenhouse/

Tiempo - Global Warming and the Third World
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/tiempo/

Mobilization for Climate Justice
http://www.actforclimatejustice.org/



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