Category: RT Newswire

USE ME! Essentially, this is a catch all for everything. This is probably the ONLY category where things that are not directly related to Rising Tide affiliates/allies should go. For example if a coal company goes out of business (and we didn’t directly cause it) it should probably only go here.

Activist Groups Challenge UN Definition of Forests

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For Immediate Release 11 December, 2008

Groups unite to challenge the definition of forests under UNFCCC/REDD

Poznan, Poland (UN Climate Conference)–Global Forest Coalition, The
Wilderness Society, World Rainforest Movement, Global Justice Ecology
Project, Via Campesina, the International Youth Delegation and the STOP GE
Trees Campaign united today to challenge the UN/REDD definition of forests.

Currently the UN considers industrial tree plantations as forests. This is,
simply put, an egregious error. Plantations are not forests. Forests are
diverse ecosystems and plantations are void of biodiversity. The UN
definition endangers Indigenous Peoples, forest dependent people, peasants,
small farmers, biodiversity and exacerbates climate change.

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Insurers: 2008 2nd Worst Year for Weather-Related Disasters

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Insurers: 2008 2nd Worst year for Weather-Related Disasters

POZNAN – Weather-related disasters and earthquakes are likely to make 2008 the second most costly year for insurers after 2005, when Hurricane Katrina struck the United States, a leading insurer said on Wednesday.

Losses in 2008 are around $160 billion so far, Thomas Loster, chair of Munich Re Foundation, told Reuters on the sidelines of December 1-12 climate talks in Poznan, Poland.

He said it was likely to have been surpassed only by 2005, when Katrina contributed to losses of $220 billion.

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UPDATE: Navajo & Hopi Protest OSM in DENVER!!

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Navajo and Hopi tell Office of Surface Mining in Denver "NO!" to coal mining

Navajo and Hopi tell Office of Surface Mining in Denver

THANKS to everyone who helped us make our point to the Office of Surface Mining yesterday! OSM disconnected their phone line because so many people flooded them with calls!

This is just the begining of this battle, we are more determined than ever to not allow our homelands to be turned into “minor” decisions for coal interests! I hope you will continue to stand in solidarity with Indigenous Peoples and the “front line” communities that are taking a stand against these major entities!

Please help us get this update out and again thank you!!

-Enei

Enei Begaye
Co-Director, Black Mesa Water Coalition
PO Box 613 Flagstaff, AZ 86002-613
phone: (928) 213-5909
fax #: (928) 213-5905
www.blackmesawatercoalition.org

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