by No-Redd | Nov 27, 2015 | Climate Change, Forests & Biodiversity
The climate negotiations have done worse than nothing to prevent climate change. Nigerian activist Adesuwa Uwagie-Ero takes us on a historical journey, and suggests some ways to shift the international process onto a path toward climate justice. Seeing REDD As...
by No-Redd | Sep 10, 2015 | Climate Change, Forests & Biodiversity
Yesterday, activists in Durban, South Africa launched the Durban Declaration on REDD. The Declaration opposes REDD, and rejects the “commodification, privatisation and plunder of Nature”. The Declaration was launched at an event organised under the Civil Society...
by No-Redd | Oct 24, 2014 | Climate Change, Forests & Biodiversity, Plantations & Agriculture
Friends of the Earth International has just released its most recent assessment of the suite of carbon-trading forestry policies known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, or REDD. The report, “The great REDD gamble,” is available for...
by No-Redd | Jul 3, 2014 | Climate Change, Forests & Biodiversity, Plantations & Agriculture
Plight of Kenya’s indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 500 million acres of land in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean was acquired or negotiated under deals...
by No-Redd | Feb 25, 2014 | Forests & Biodiversity, Press Release
We, the No REDD in Africa Network and the undersigned organizations and individuals, strongly condemn the massive evictions and forced relocation of the Sengwer Indigenous People, one of the few remaining hunter-gatherers of the world, from their ancestral home in...
by No-Redd | Jan 31, 2014 | Forests & Biodiversity
Last year the Government of Kenya was getting “ready” for REDD in the Embobut Forest, now it is violently evicting the Sengwer People and forcing them “into extinction.” According to Survival International, “as many as a thousand homes have already been torched.”...
