The Green Economy

The Green Economy is a tactic used to “clean up” the image of corporations rather than address corporate capture and capitalism as the true drivers of deforestation. False solutions promoted under the Green Economy include certification, sustainable forest management, ecosystem services, REDD+, the bioeconomy, nature-based climate solutions, and zero net deforestation. Rather than stopping it, these “solutions” support corporate-driven destruction that is causing a deep social and ecological crisis.

Other information 8 December 2014

The green economy, forest peoples and territories: rights violations in the state of Acre

Fact-finding and advocacy mission preliminary report, by Cristiane Faustino y Fabrina Furtado Download the preliminary report as pdf here
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Publications 3 December 2014

REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies

REDD: A Collection of Conflicts, Contradictions and Lies presents summaries of reports from 24 REDD projects or programmes with a common characteristic: they all show a number of structural characteristics that undermine forest peoples' rights, or fail to address deforestation. As offset projects, they all fail to address the climate crisis because by definition, offset projects do not reduce overall emissions: emission reductions claimed in one place justify extra emissions elsewhere.
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Bulletin articles 31 October 2014

‘Sustainable Forest Management’: the ‘change’ that keeps destroying

  This year, 2014, seems to have reached a new ‘record’ of international declarations in which the signatories commit to drastically reducing, or even halting, deforestation. It is noteworthy that all of them are supported by large transnational corporations linked to the tree plantations for pulp and paper industry and the oil palm plantations industrial processing, as well as institutions linked to financial capital. Besides, some NGOs are also always involved.
Bulletin articles 31 October 2014

Forests Plunder: discourse of ‘sustainability’ hides destruction caused by logging

 
Other information 31 October 2014

Two-years research into business links of the NGO WWF in all corners of the world uncover the true face of the panda

Bulletin articles 31 October 2014

REDD+ myth: Sustainable Forest Management

  Myth: Sustainable Forest Management will reduce forest emissions and bring sustainable development.
Publications 27 September 2014

REDD moves from forests to landscapes: More of the same, just bigger and with bigger risk to cause harm

Text: Jutta Kill Published in September 2014 (previously as an article of the monthly electronic bulletin of WRM of July 2014) Also available in Indonesian
Publications 26 September 2014

“Blue Carbon” and “Blue REDD”: Transforming coastal ecosystems into merchandise

Also available in Bahasa - Translated by KIARA Text: Winfridus Overbeek Photos: Redmanglar Internacional, Kiara, CPP, Canco Published in September 2014 (previously as an article of the monthly electronic bulletin of WRM of July 2014)
Other information 26 September 2014

Stop GE Trees campaign urged FSC to keep GE trees out!

Other information 26 September 2014

Grassroots organizations in France alert the participants of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Safety and Nutrition organized by FAO

Bulletin articles 26 September 2014

Beware the bioeconomy

   
Publications 23 September 2014

Nuevas tendencias en la expansión de los monocultivos industriales de árboles en América Latina

Only available in Spanish and Portuguese. Download here the full document in pdf format in Spanish or in Portuguese Documento informativo del Movimiento Mundial por los Bosques Tropicales (WRM)