By Joseph Rahall and Milton Kainyande - Green Scenery
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Some 6000-7000 indigenous people and other communities in Embobut Forest in the Cherangany Hills of the ElgeyoMarakwet County, in Kenya, are threatened with forced eviction.
REDD Monitor website with articles and blog in English.
Most widely read website with information and analysis critical of REDD and trading in ‘ecosystem services’
www.redd-monitor.org
Academic article by R. Muradian and others.
http://r1.ufrrj.br/cpda/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Conservation-Letters.pdf
In October 2013, the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) denounced the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam project, on the grounds that its execution would impact on their ancestral lands, which had been illicitly seized to open the way for the dam’s construction.
FERN Briefing that describes “how biodiversity offset schemes have fared so far and shows that the picture is far from rosy”. With examples showing how biodiversity offsets are used in the UK and France to undermine local opposition against unnecessary large infrastructure projects.
Article from IATP explains the connection between the Green Economy and PES trading related to water.
Available at: http://www.iatp.org/files/2012_03_09_GreenEconomyWater_SV.pdf
Leaflet produced by Les Amis de la Terre France that shows why making nature, ecosystems and water tradable will not solve our current global crisis. It also criticises the finance sector’s ‘Natural Capital Declaration’ which outlines new market mechanisms which the finance sector aims to use as part of the so-called ‘green economy’.
A short animated film about the takeover of nature by financial markets and the real alternatives coming up from civil society. An initiative of SOMO, European ATTAC Network, Food & Water Europe, Friends of the Earth, Carbon Trade Watch, WEED, Ecologistas en Acción, AITEC and Campagna per la riforma della Banca Mondiale.
Only available in Spanish.
Por Diego Cardona, CENSAT Agua Viva Friends of the Earth Colombia,
Available at: http://www.wrm.org.uy/html/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Esp_Biodiversidad_12_2013.pdf