Forest CO2 Storage Plans Should Aid Poor – Alliance
SPAIN: October 9, 2008
BARCELONA, Spain – Forest protection can help fight climate change but any UN-led projects must also ease poverty and safeguard rights of indigenous peoples, an international alliance said on Wednesday.
The group, spanning 250 representatives of business, trade unions, forestry companies, governments and local and indigenous peoples, laid down guidelines for an international drive to tap forests to help soak up heat-trapping carbon dioxide.
Deforestation, with trees burnt to clear land for farming from the Amazon to the Congo, accounts for 20 percent of world emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. Trees store carbon dioxide as they grow and release it when they die.
Author: postMigrator
Indigenous People’s Day Events-Denver Colorado; Oct. 12, 2008
FYI-From Denver, Colorado-Events for Columbus Day/Indigenous
Resistance.
Hi of people could not open my previous attachment for the events this
Saturday, so I am trying, again. Sorry for the incovenience.
Glenn
Some of the events for the week:
1. RACE, RESISTANCE AND THE COLUMBIAN LEGACY
Join nationally-known activist Glenn Spagnuolo, co-founder of Re-create
68, for a night of education and dialogue about race in America
and resistance to the Columbian Legacy!
When: 5pm Thursday, October 9, 2008
Where: CU Boulder Campus, Hale Hall Room 240
2. Columbus Day Resistance March and Rally
The annual protest of the Columbus Day Holiday and the racism that it
embodies will begin with a march from Four Winds that ends at the
Capitol Building followed by a rally for a better future.
When: March starts at 8 am, Rally at 9am, Saturday, October 11
Where: Start of March is at Four Winds at 5th and Bannock in Denver, CO
3. People’s Council
Following the Columbus Day resistance, people will be gathering to
organize a new alliance locally that can act as a national vehicle for
radicals. Bring your thoughts and cooperative energy. Please come and
represent R68.
When: 1pm, Saturday, October 11
Where: The Great Hall at the Iliff School of Theology just past Evans on
University Blvd, Denver.
4. Student Walk-out on Racism
Whether you are a student or not, join the students of Iliff, CU Denver,
CU Boulder and DU as the educate the public about Denver’s hidden racial
past on the 101st Anniversary of the Columbus Holiday. There will be a
student walk-out, a short rally, followed by a march to locations with a
racial history that will end at Civic Center Park.
When: 12 Noon, Monday, October 13
Where: CU Denver’s Auraria Campus, The Plaza Building Lawn
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Environmentalists Score Phosphate Mine Victory in Florida Wetland
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 6, 2008
4:00 PM
Environmentalists Score Phosphate Mine Victory
CONTACT: Earthjustice
David Guest/Monica Reimer, Earthjustice, (850) 681-0031
Environmentalists Score Phosphate Mine Victory
Project that would have destroyed 480 acres of wetlands halted
BRADENTON, Fla. – October 6 – Earthjustice scored a major win today when
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers suspended a permit that gave Mosaic
Phosphate the go-ahead to destroy 480 acres of high-quality wetlands
within the Peace River watershed.
“This permit suspension is a victory for the people of Manatee County and
everyone who lives in the Peace River basin” said Earthjustice attorney
Monica Reimer. “This establishes that the permit should never have been
granted. It didn’t comply with the law.”
Polar Bear Critical Habitat to Be Designated
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 6, 2008
2:37 PM
Polar Bear Critical Habitat to Be Designated
CONTACT: Environmental Groups
Kassie Siegel, Center for Biological Diversity, cell: (951) 961-7972,
ksiegel@biologicaldiversity.org
Josh Mogerman, Natural Resources Defense Council, cell: (773) 853-5384;
office: (312) 780-7424, jmogerman@nrdc.org
Mike Crocker, Greenpeace, office: (202) 319-2471; cell: (202) 215-8989,
michael.crocker@greenpeace.org
Polar Bear Critical Habitat to Be Designated
Lawsuit Settlement Will Increase Protections for Species Imperiled by
Global Warming
OAKLAND, Calif. – October 6 – The Center for Biological Diversity, the
Natural Resources Defense Council, and Greenpeace have reached a partial
settlement with the federal government of the conservation groups’ lawsuit
that seeks to strengthen protections for the polar bear under the U.S.
Endangered Species Act and other laws. The agreement, filed today in
federal court, sets deadlines for the Secretary of Interior to designate
“critical habitat” for the polar bear, as well as to issue guidelines on
non-lethal strategies to deal with bears that pose a threat to public
safety under the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act.