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. Read
the call to action and sign the Durban
Declaration on Carbon Trading.
Even-aged, evenly spaced and
monotonous: Industrial tree crops like this eucalyptus plantation
in Minas Gerais, Brazil, have lost nearly all the biological and structural
diversity that characteristic for forests.