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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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/
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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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| 2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
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| SPECIAL
WRM BULLETINS FOCUSED ON CLIMATE CHANGE |
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.
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Climate
Justice NOW!
"A
Call for Peoples’ Action Against Climate Change"
"The Durban Declaration on
Carbon Trading"
Durban, South Africa -
10 October 2004
(also available in Spanish,
French and Portuguese)
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Position
paper on Energy Sovereignty
Oilwatch
/ New
Delhi - October 2002
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Bali
Principles of Climate Justice
International Climate Justice
Network
August 2002
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2001-
A Year of Freak Weather, Rising Tide Uk - Climate Action
News Sheet, 8th January 2002
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Declaración
de los representantes indígenas asistentes a la COP7 en Marrakech
(only in Spanish)
Marruecos, 5 de noviembre de 2001
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Oilwatch Statement for the 7th Conference on Climate Change.
French version.
November 2001
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Resolution of the Amazonian Indigenous Forum on Climate Change
/ Versión en portugués
Manaus, October 11, 2001
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An
appeal before the next crucial meeting of the Convention on Climate
Change Bonn,
July 2001
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Declaration
of the Third International Forum of Indigenous Peoples and Local
Communities on Climate Change
Bonn, July 14-15, 2001
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'Saving'
the Kyoto Protocol Means Ending the Market Mania -
Bonn Statement on Climate Change by Corporate Europe Observatory
- Bonn
- Germany, July 2001
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Fossil
Fuels and Climate Change
Oilwatch International Position Paper
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Sinking
the Kyoto Protocol, October 2000
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Stop
climate negotiators from bargaining away forests for their carbon
content!, October 2000
-
$INKS
-- Who wins, who loses? 10 arguments against the Inclusion
of Sinks in the Clean Development Mechanism
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"The
Hague Mandate" - Declaration on the
need for an effective and fair agreement to protect the global
climate A statement prepared for the COP6 in The Hague,
November 2000
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Latin
American NGO Statement on CDM
/ verşao
em português
The Hague, November, 2000
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Declaration
of the Second International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate
Change
The Hague, November 11-12, 2000
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Declaration
of the First International Forum of Indigenous Peoples on Climate
Change Lyon - France, September 4-6, 2000
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Position Paper presented at Lyon by the Indigenous people and
local communitites France, September 4-15,
2000
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Recommendations
of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations Regarding the Process
of the Framework Convention on Climate Change Quito, July
2000
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The
Mt. Tamalpais Declaration San Francisco, May 2000
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WRM
statement to the Fourth Conference of the Parties of the Climate
Change Convention Buenos Aires, November 1998
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NGO
Forest Working Group: Every Tree a Good Tree?
The NGO Forest Working Group, Buenos Aires, November 1998
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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.
- WRM
at the COP 10 - Buenos Aires, December 2004
- Genetically
Modified Trees must be banned from the Kyoto Protocol,
Flyer by Friends of the Earth International and World Rainforest
Movement
- Environmental
and Human Rights Groups Condemn Carbon Trading Cite Potential
Human Rights Abuses - Press Conference -
Friday 10th - 11 AM.
- Human Rights
and Climate Justice, by Raquel Núñez
- World Rainforest Movement
- Indigenous
Peoples, Carbon Trade and Climate Change, by
Tom Goldtooth - Indigenous Environmental Network
- Forests, Plantations and
Climate Change - workshop organized by World Rainforest
Movement, Friends of the Earth International and Greenpeace, Salón
del Jardín Botánico, Monday 13 December 9 AM.
- Genetically
modified trees : The ultimate threat to forests,
World Rainforest Movement and Friends of the Earth International
invite to the presentation of the research commissioned to Chris
Lang on GMTrees, Salón
del Jardín Botánico, Monday 13 December 4 PM.
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Emissions
Trade Instead of Climate Protection. Why planting trees does not
compensate for flying
by Jutta Kill and Chris Lang. Published in Verträglich
Reisen, November 2004.
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The
Sky is Not the Limit. The Emerging Market in
Greenhouse Gases - Carbon Trade Watch, TNI Briefing Series,
January 2003
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Impactos
de la aplicación de políticas sobre Cambio Climático
en la forestación del Páramo del Ecuador
Verónica Vidal i Oltra - Universitat Autònoma
de Barcelona
- Climate
Change Solutions - New Internationalist, Issue 357 -
June 2003.
- 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
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| LINKS
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| 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/
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