Category: RT Newswire

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Action Alert-Support Indigenous Peoples! CALL the Secretary of Interior & Office of Surface Mining

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Subject: [Action Alert – Support Indigenous Peoples!] CALL the Secretary
of Interior & Office of Surface Mining
From:    “Indigenous Environmental Network” <ienonlinenews@igc.org>
Date:    Mon, December 8, 2008 9:36 am
To:      stormf5@riseup.net
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Forest Hotspots Pinpointed For Climate, Biodiversity

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Posnan, Poland Climate Talks: Forest Hotspots Pinpointed For Climate,
Biodiversity:

http://planetark.org/wen/50811

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UN Climate Deal Could Pay for Forest Destruction

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For Immediate Release        Friday 5 December

Joint release: Global Forest Coalition, The Wilderness Society and Global
Justice Ecology Project

UN Climate Deal Could Pay for Forest Destruction
Carbon Karma Fortune-telling Action Foretells REDD Profits

Poznan, Poland–<http://www.globalforestcoalition.org>Global Forest
Coalition, <http://www.wilderness.org.au/>The Wilderness Society,
<http://www.globaljusticeecology.org>Global Justice Ecology Project and
concerned youth highlighted the risks associated with the implementation of
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in a
“REDD fortune-telling” action today at the UN Climate conference here.  In
its current form, they argue, REDD could derail the Climate Convention and
undermine a post-2012 Climate agreement.

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Forests, REDD, & Posnan

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So-REDD is being marketed heavily in Posnan-where Indigenous Peoples’ are largely locked out (again)…aren’t these climate parties a regular hoot?

ASW

In concept, forests can be used for carbon offset programs. However,
at the same time, getting from concept to policy and practice is
another matter, involving “difficult” choices, as a report to be
released today from climate and forest scientists makes clear.
Lance
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“But there are a range of complex issues facing the talks, such as:
the appropriate scale for implementing REDD projects; how to
incorporate forest degradation (as opposed to simply deforestation)
as part of the agreement; whether or not technology is sufficiently
advanced to measure and monitor forest-based carbon; how to guarantee
that forests conserved for carbon are not subsequently lost; and how
to ensure that the rights of forest-dwelling communities are
recognized and respected.”
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NEWS RELEASE
Center for International Forestry Research
Public release date: 5-Dec-2008

Contact: Jeff Haskins
jhaskins@burnesscommunications.com
48-510-853-540

Megan Dold
mdold@burnesscommunications.com
44-79-1754-4966

Report offers options for negotiators seeking to craft critical
accord on forests and climate change

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