Open Letter of Concern to the International Donor Community about the Diversion of Existing Forest Conservation and Development Funding to REDD+

The No REDD Platform has been collecting signatures from all over the world and would like to encourage other groups to support this initiative. With this letter we aim to alert communities, activists, civil society groups and social movements of the diversion of funding by the international donor community to dubious schemes to “Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and enhance forest carbon stocks” (REDD+), which are being promoted within the framework of the United Nations Climate Convention.

Please sign on by 14 October 2011 !

 

• ‘Reduced Emissions From Deforestation’ (REDD): Can Carbon Trading Save Our Ecosystems?

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• REDD: An introduction - By REDD Monitor

• ´What is REDD+? An introduction to forests and climate change - By Carbon Trade Watch. Also available in Spanish

• Letter from the State of Acre - In defence of life and the integrity of the peoples and their territories against REDD and the commodification of nature - Rio Branco, Acre, October 07, 2011 - Also available in Portuguese and Spanish

  REDD e Cidades - Depoimento (audiovisual) de Sandra Lineia de Caritas Manaus (AM), sobre a relação entre o mecanismo REDD e a migração de populações tradicionais e rurais para as Cidades, durante oficina "Serviços Ambientais, REDD e Fundos Verdes do BNDES: Salvação da Amazonia ou Armadilha do Capitalismo Verde?", em Rio Branco, estado de Acre, entre 3 e 7 de Outubro de 2011 - Only available in portuguese

REDD e Povos Indígenas - Depoimento (audiovisual) de José Luiz Kassupá sobre os impactos do mecanismo REDD na vida dos Povos Indígenas, durante a oficina "Serviços ambientais, fundos verdes e REDD: Salvação da Amazônia ou Armadilha do Capitalismo Verde", 3-7 de outubro em Rio Branco (AC), Brasil. José Luiz é primeiro secretário do movimento indígena no estado de Rondônia. - Only available in portuguese

• Key Arguments Against Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) - Carbon Trade Watch, June 2011

• Some Key REDD Players - Carbon Trade Watch, June 2011

• Amador Hernandez, Chiapas: Starved of Medical Services for REDD+ - short documentary video by Global Justice Ecology Project

• The Carbon Hunters. On the trail of the climate's hottest commodity - VIDEO
  In a remote corner of Brazil's Atlantic coast, they say time is a fiction. This ancient forest is seemingly unspoiled by modern life -- beyond the reach of men, machines, and markets. But a closer look reveals something very different happening here. Reported by Mark Schapiro, produced by Andres Cediel & co-produced by Daniela Broitman.

• Position on Women and REDD - Women and organizations at COP 16, Cancun, December 9, 2010 - To sign-on! Also available in French, Portuguese and Spanish

• Why REDD is wrong - By Global Justice Ecology, 2010

• The Cancun agreement on REDD: Four questions and four answers - By Chris Lang, 18th December 2010

• NO REDD - A READER: a collection of articles written by REDD Monitor, Global Justice, Ecology Project, Censat Agua Viva, Amazon Watch, Acción Ecológica, COECOCEIBA-AT, OFRANEH, World Rainforest Movement, Carbon Trade Watch, RisingTide, ETC Group and Indigenous Environmental Network - December 2010 - Also available in Spanish See here the presentation of the book: http://webcast.cc2010.mx/webmedia_en.html?id=121
• Is REDD the New Green? Indigenous Groups Resist Carbon Market-Based Forestry Scheme to Offset Emissions - Anne Petermann excellent discussion of REDD on Democracy Now!
• The Top 10: What’s wrong with REDD? - By Chris Lang - Decmber 2010
• What to do with REDD? A manual for indigenous trainers - 23rd June 2010
• "REDD Not Fixable Nor Reformable - Don’t Greenwash REDD" - Indigenous Delegates at the Climate Change Convention in Copenhagen - By Rebecca Sommer, 10 December 2009

• Joint statement on REDD climate scheme at Climate Change Convention in Copenhagen - December 2009

• Seeing ‘REDD’? Forests, climate change mitigation and the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities - Update for Poznań (UNFCCC COP 14) - December 2008 Advance draft by Tom Griffiths
• GenderCC Contribution to the UNFCCC on REDD - December 2008 . Also available in Spanish

• Groups unite to challenge the definition of forests under UNFCCC/REDD - Press Release - December 2008 (UNFCCC COP 14)

• Indigenous Peoples Call for the Immediate Suspension of All REDD Projects - Press Release - December 2008 (UNFCCC COP 14)
• 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 - December 2008 (UNFCCC COP 14)
• Carbon Karma Fortune-telling Action Foretells REDD Profits. UN Climate Deal Could Pay for Forest Destruction - For Immediate Release - Joint release: Global Forest Coalition, The Wilderness Society and Global Justice Ecology Project - December 2008 (UNFCCC COP 14)
• 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 - December 2008 (UNFCCC COP 14)
• Guiding Principles & Policy Recommendations for REDD negotiations at COP 14 - International Youth Delegation - December 2008 (UNFCCC COP 14)
• 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 - December 2008 (UNFCCC COP 14)
• 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 - December 2008 (UNFCCC COP 14)
• No REDD! No REDD Plus! - Durban Group for Climate Justice. Statement against Schemes for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
• Protecting the world’s forests needs more than just money - NGO / IPO Declaration on REDD - (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP 13
  Bali, Indonesia, December 2007)

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

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