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REDD+ versus indigenous people? Why a tribe in Panama rejected pay for their carbon-rich forests

Read more...There isn’t a word or phrase in the Kuna language for "carbon trading,” and much less for something as complex as REDD+. Standing for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, REDD+ is the worldwide UN backed climate change mitigation scheme that relies on carbon trading within forest landscapes for funding. And yet, since 2008, the Kuna people have been hearing lots about it and referring to it often in their private conversations.

"It has something to do with the value of our forests to non-Kuna people,” said a young man to me recently, trying to explain REDD+. "I only know that I don’t agree with it.”

A majority of the indigenous Kuna reside on just under 40 of the 365 islands that comprise the San Blas Archipelago in eastern Panama, an area known as Kuna Yala, or 'land of the Kuna.' They depend on fishing, subsistence farming — including crops like banana, coconut and sugar cane — and eco-tourism for their livelihoods. On the mainland the Kuna also possess rights to a vast old-growth coastal forest, which they have managed sustainably and communally for hundreds of years.

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2014 SADC Peoples Summit Declaration: "We reject externally driven false solutions to climate change such as REDD+"

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The NO REDD in Africa! Network (NRAN) was at the 2014 SADC Peoples Summit in Bulawayo City, Zimbabwe. The summit final declaration brings strong demands to the Heads of States. The Rejection of the False Solutions to Climate Change, such as REDD+, is one of the demands.

The SADC Peoples called on SADC member states  and Governments to: "Reject externally driven false solutions to climate change embedded in for example the existing REDD Plus, Green Revolution and Climate Smart Agriculture proposals".

The following is the Declaration...

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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
 
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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 on behalf of foreign governments or transnational corporations.

Many such deals are geared toward growing crops or biofuels for export to richer, developed countries – with the consequence that small-holder farmers are displaced from their land and lose their livelihood while local communities go hungry.

The concentration of ownership of the world's farmland in the hands of powerful investors and corporations is rapidly accelerating, driven by resource scarcity and, thus, rising prices. According to a new report by the US land rights organisation Grain: "The powerful demands of food and energy industries are shifting farmland and water away from direct local food production to the production of commodities for industrial processing."

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Call for UN carbon credit mechanism to reject Guatemalan project following allegations of murder and intimidation

Note from the NRAN: The No REDD in Africa Network expresses our solidarity with the Peoples' Council of Tezulutlan, Guatemala and calls for the cancellation not only of this proposed project but of the Clean Development Mechanism in its entirety and all carbon trading mechanisms including REDD.

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28 May 2014, For immediate release

Guatemala City-Brussels – In a meeting starting today, the Executive Board of the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) will decide whether to approve the Santa Rita Hydroelectric plant in Guatemala. The Peoples´Council of Tezulutlán and Carbon Market Watch call on the Board to reject this project because essential community consultation rules have been violated, tragically resulting in the alleged murders and intimidations of the affected community. 
 

The Santa Rita Hydroelectric Plant (project 9713) is a project under development on the Icbolay River, in the municipality of Cobán, in the Alta Verapaz region of Guatemala and currently applying for approval under the UN’s carbon offsetting mechanism. The project is subject to community opposition over its environmental and social impacts and violation of community consultation rights which are at the heart of the Guatemalan Agreement on Identity and Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

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  1. The expansion of industrial oil palm plantations in Africa: A call for greater solidarity and action
  2. International campaign to define Forests by their true meaning!
  3. Forced Relocation of Sengwer People proves urgency of canceling REDD
  4. PRESS RELEASE - Forced Relocation of Sengwer People proves urgency of canceling REDD

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