Avoided Deforestation and Degradation
European Parliament passes resolution to end taxpayer support for fossil fuels projects
Brussels,
29 November 2007 – With
a resounding majority (540 MEPs in favour), the European Parliament today passed
a resolution on trade and climate change which calls for “the discontinuation
of public support, via export credit agencies and public investment banks, for
fossil fuel projects”.
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Open letter to the EU calling for biofuel targets to be abandoned
Open Letter to the EU calling for biofuel
targets to be abandoned, and warning that the proposals could have a
devastating impact on local communities, rainforests, on the global climate,
food security, and biodiversity.
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Letter to Ministers to abandon EU biofuel targets
Letter to EU Ministers to highlight the concern of over 160 environmental, development and social organisations worldwide about the proposed EU targets for biofuel use.
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Human rights abuses, land conflicts, broken promises
A new report by WRM of carbon offset projects in Uganda shows a string of human rights abuses linked with carbon trading and that carbon projects undermine development.
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Bad for the South, bad for the North, and bad for the climate
New Book Exposes Flaws of Carbon Trading. The book is published by Sweden’s Dag Hammarskjold
Foundation together with the international Durban Group for Climate Justice and
the UK-based NGO The Corner House.
‘This is the most absurd and impossible market human civilization has ever seen,’ said Indian activist and researcher Soumitra Ghosh, a contributing author on carbon projects in the South. ‘Carbon trading is bad for the South, bad for the North, and bad for the climate.’ ‘ Claims that carbon credits mitigate climate change have not been verified’, added Jutta Kill of FERN, another contributor to the book. Carbon trading impedes positive investment in the South while thwarting popular movements against subsidies for fossil fuel extraction, she said.
In detailed case studies from nine Third World countries, the book shows how carbon offset projects such as those promoted under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) have had a detrimental impact on local communities. At the same time, they prolong industrialized countries’ excessive pollution of the atmosphere.
Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power is available for download at http://www.dhf.uu.se A paper edition will be published by the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation in November 2006.
‘This is the most absurd and impossible market human civilization has ever seen,’ said Indian activist and researcher Soumitra Ghosh, a contributing author on carbon projects in the South. ‘Carbon trading is bad for the South, bad for the North, and bad for the climate.’ ‘ Claims that carbon credits mitigate climate change have not been verified’, added Jutta Kill of FERN, another contributor to the book. Carbon trading impedes positive investment in the South while thwarting popular movements against subsidies for fossil fuel extraction, she said.
In detailed case studies from nine Third World countries, the book shows how carbon offset projects such as those promoted under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) have had a detrimental impact on local communities. At the same time, they prolong industrialized countries’ excessive pollution of the atmosphere.
Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power is available for download at http://www.dhf.uu.se A paper edition will be published by the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation in November 2006.
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Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power
The book Exposes Flaws of Carbon Trading. In detailed case studies from nine Third World countries, the book shows
how carbon offset projects such as those promoted under the Kyoto Protocol’s
Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) have had a detrimental impact on local
communities. At the same time, they prolong industrialized countries’
excessive pollution of the atmosphere.
Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation
and Power is available for download at http://www.dhf.uu.se
A paper edition will be published by the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation
in November 2006.
Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation
and Power is available for download at http://www.dhf.uu.se
A paper edition will be published by the Dag Hammarskjold Foundation
in November 2006.FERN's submission to the FSC regarding the Plantar certificate.
FERN's SinksWatch initiative submission to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) regarding
the accreditation audit of Scientific Certification
Systems at Plantar S.A., in
Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Also, see preliminary report by SILVA Ecossystem Consultants complements the FERN / SinksWatch submission to FSC.
Also, see preliminary report by SILVA Ecossystem Consultants complements the FERN / SinksWatch submission to FSC.
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Letter urging the European Parliament to exclude sinks project from the EU Linking Directive
FERN's SinksWatch initiative letter urging Members of the European Parliament's Environment Committee to
exclude sinks project from EU Linking Directive.
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Environmentalists Cry Foul at Rock Stars’, Polluting Companies’ “Carbon-Neutral” Claims
Environmental and social justice groups including
FERN's SinksWatch launch protests against Future Forests and Climate Care over
the UK-based firms' claims to make their clients' products and services
harmless to the climate.
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The CDM methodology approval process and the exclusion of avoided fuel switch projects
Explanatory
Briefing on avoided fuel switch projects and the CDM approval process
for project methodologies.
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