Nouveau Livre: Pas de REDD en Afrique - Appel à la décolonisation de l’Afrique

La pire forme d’esclavage consiste à se vendre aux enchères de plein gré,
de se faire acheter et ensuite de faire semblant d’être libre. C’est ce à quoi
revient la participation à l’initiative des REDD (réduction des émissions issues
du déboisement et de la dégradation des forêts). À un moment où l’action
climatique a renoncé aux exigences obligatoires au profit de « contributions
volontaires définies au plan national, » les REDD offrent un espace idéal pour les helpful community
pollueurs de continuer à polluer tout en prétendant qu’ils sont des champions de
l’action sur le climat.

L’initiative REDD cause déjà la violation de droits individuels ainsi que des
droits collectifs des communautés et des peuples autochtones. Les REDD offrent
aux industries polluantes, aux spéculateurs du carbone et aux gouvernements
qui les servent la liberté de maintenir leurs comportements répréhensibles en les
approuvant officiellement.

La présente publication du Réseau Pas de REDD en Afrique (No REDD in
Africa Network) a pour but de démystifier le mécanisme des REDD, les projets
de type REDD et toutes leurs variantes, et de montrer ce qu’ils sont vraiment :
des mécanismes injustes conçus pour lancer une nouvelle phase de colonisation
du continent africain. Les exemples présentés ci-dessous démontrent clairement
que le mécanisme des REDD est une escroquerie et que les pollueurs savent qu’il
leur permet d’acheter le « droit » de polluer.

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Auteurs: Nnimmo Bassey
Anabela Lemos
Cassandra Smithies

Traduction: Raymond Robitaille

INVESTIGATION: How a $4 million UN climate programme impoverished, tortured Nigerian communities

Things were looking up for William Obio when he decided to invest more in his logging business. For the first time in years, his nine children and three brothers were eating well, and he could support his over half-a-dozen team of machine operators, saw men, scouts, and wood carriers.

Such success, rare in Owai, a heavily forested and impoverished community less than 20 kilometres from Nigeria’s southern border with Cameroon, emboldened Mr. Obio. He took a chance and purchased a small cassava crushing machine and got more saws.

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"This COP will determine how Africa will be colonized again, through climate change" - Boaventura Monjane on the Paris Climate Talks

In this interview by WST TV  Boaventura Monjane, a journalist and activist from Mozambique speaks about the outcomes of the Paris Climate Talks, COP21 and argues that most of the solutions proposed by Conference Of the Parties and Corporations are marketed oriented and that mechanisms like REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) are a new form of colonialism for Africa

 

COP21: What’s happened so far? (REDD Monitor)

By Chris Lang, REDD MONITOR

7 December 2015 - Today marks the start of the second week of the UN climate change negotiations in Paris. After a week of negotiations we have a Draft Paris Outcome.

The draft outcome contains 940 pairs of square brackets. There’s nothing in there about fossil fuels. The word forest appears 11 times and the word deforestation once. REDD appears 11 times.

There’s a REDD paragraph (Article 3 bis), which does little more than refer to the Warsaw Framework for REDD Plus.

Negotiations on REDD were completed in June 2015, so there’s no real need to mention REDD in Paris. But Kevin Conrad and the Coalition for Rainforest Nations have spent a large part of the last ten years telling us how important REDD is, and they are not likely to stop any time soon.

New carbon markets to be created in Paris?

The word “market” only appears once in the Draft Paris Outcome, and its in the context of enhancing “non-market-based approaches”. However, as Oscar Reyes points out, this is partly because markets have been replaced by variations on the theme of internationally transferred mitigation options. Clever, eh?

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