Action alert!

CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW! A CALL FOR PEOPLES’ ACTION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
Representatives from organizations and peoples’ movements from around the globe came together in Durban, South Africa October 4-7, 2004 to discuss realistic avenues for addressing climate change. The group emerged from the meeting with a Call for a global grassroots movement against climate change and the Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading. Please sign on to the Durban Decalration on Carbon Trading by submitting the form below or by sending an email to info@fern.org directly.

Declaración de Durban sobre el Comercio de Carbono
JUSTICIA CLIMÁTICA YA! LLAMADO A LOS PUEBLOS PARA ACTUAR CONTRA EL CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO
A DECLARAÇÃO DE DURBAN SOBRE O COMÉRCIO DO CARBONO
JUSTIÇA CLIMÁTICA JÁ! CONVOCAÇÃO PARA AÇÃO POPULAR CONTRA A MUDANÇA DO CLIMA
Déclaration de Durban sur le commerce du carbone
Maintenant la justice climatique ! Appel à l’action populaire contre le changement climatique

Watch this space for regular updates of the sigatories list:
Durban Declaration sign-ons as of 27 October 2004

 
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Say 'no' to carbon credits from industrial tree plantations!
Carbon credits from industrial tree plantations? That's neither climate protection nor sustainable development. Since March 2003, over 50 Brazilian organisations have been urging EU companies and governments not to buy carbon credits from eucalyptus plantation projects like the Plantar project in Brazil. At the world's first carbon trading fair, the Carbon Expo in Cologne, Germany, on 09 June 2004 representatives of Brazilian civil society greeted visitors with a banner reading 'Stop Plantar'.

Please take action and inform decision-makers in your country who are involved in this project about the controversy and the demand by Brazilian civil society groups to withdraw support for the project. Urge them to exclude the use of carbon credits from industrial tree plantations in achieving their Kyoto Protocol emission reduction targets because of the significant environmental and social impacts of these plantations on local communities and the environment (see report commissioned by the World Rainforest Movement on the local impact of the Plantar plantations in the Plantar section of the publications page.

Remind those companies and governments involved in the World Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund (click here for list of PCF investors and participants) that CDM carbon sinks projects like this will attract local opposition, cause grief for those in the vicinity of the project and are not a contribution to halting climate change!