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Nine reasons why REDD is a false folution: New Report from Friends of the Earth International
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...
World Bank and UN carbon offset scheme ‘complicit’ in genocidal land grabs – NGOs
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 brokered...
Forced Relocation of Sengwer People proves urgency of canceling REDD
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...
Kenya preparing for REDD in the Embobut Forest and forcing Sengwer People “into extinction”
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.”...
No REDD in Africa Network Maputo Statement: “REDD does not reduce emissions, REDD does not halt deforestation”
In August 2013, the No REDD in Africa Network met in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. The members of the Network, which was launched at the World Social Forum earlier this year, produced a short statement, posted in full below. In the past few weeks, REDD...
Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Climate Change against REDD+ and for Life
Dear People of the State of California; Dear Honorable Jerry Brown, Governor of California; Dear Mary Nichols, Chairman, California Air Resources Board; Dear Ashley Conrad-Saydah, Assistant Secretary for Climate Policy, California Environmental Protection Agency; Dear...
NRAN says No to California REDD
Dear People of the State of California; Dear Honorable Jerry Brown, Governor of California; Dear Mary Nichols, Chairman, California Air Resources Board; Dear Ashley Conrad-Saydah, Assistant Secretary for Climate Policy, California Environmental Protection...
Launch of No REDD in Africa Network: “REDD could cause genocide”
By Chris Lang, 3rd April 2013 During the World Social Forum, a group of African organisations and individuals took part in the launch of a “No REDD in Africa Network”. Given the problems with the REDD mechanism, REDD-Monitor welcomes critical debate about REDD, but...
Africans Unite against New Form of Colonialism: No REDD Network Born
Outraged by the rampant land grabs and neocolonialism of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest degradation), Africans at the World Social Forum in Tunisia took the historic decision to launch the No REDD in Africa Network and join the global movement...
10 things communities should know about REDD
The main goal of this booklet is to inform communities about the serious problems that a REDD project can cause for the people involved. WRM has visited a number of these communities over the past few years. All of them, without exception, have a lot to...
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NO REDD in Africa Network (NRAN) is a platform of African Civil Society organizations, movements, activists and individuals that oppose all kinds of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation).