Affiliates from the Durban Group for Climate Justice request urgent solidarity in a new statement rejecting schemes for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). The REDD Statement recognizes the need to support the growing voices opposing REDD and REDD-like projects and draws attention to the dangers of REDD including land grabs and the inclusion of REDD in the carbon market.

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Potential Impacts of Tree Plantation Projects under the CDM

An African Case Study

Our newest project, which is supported by the Siemenpuu Foundation in Finland, involves a study that will focus mainly on tree plantation carbon sinks in Tanzania, and in particular the planned tree plantation project of a Norwegian company, Green Resources Ltd, at Idete in southern Tanzania.

THE FOCUS OF THIS ISSUE: WOMEN ON THE MARCH
Doing honour once again to Woman’s Day, thousands of peasant, working and unemployed women are on the march in Brazil. They are marching to express their rejection of the criminalization of social movements, against violence falling on women, against agribusiness and monoculture eucalyptus and sugarcane plantations. They