David Suzuki: A Figure of Left-liberalism — At Its Breaking Point
Image by ‘Mad Love’ Overcoming Doom with Dr. David Suzuki by Andrew...
United Nation’s Sustainable Energy for All (SEFA) – or Sustained Profits for a Few?
"The SEFA 'partnership' model relies on voluntary commitments by governments, companies and civil society and on a large range of public-private partnerships. 'Barriers' to corporate investment are to be dismantled further – Nowhere is it acknowledged that profit-driven corporate practices and investments – including by those involved in the SEFA initiative, are in fact largely responsible for the energy poverty, human rights abuses, environmental damage and climate change that has so profoundly undermined progress towards the aims which the initiative officially exists to address."
Jun 25
20120
Carbon Markets | REDD, CIDOB | Confederation of Indigenous People of Bolivia, The International Campaign to Destabilize Bolivia
False Solutions: CIDOB and COICA Call for REDD Indigena at Rio+20 (Spanish)
In Bolivia, CIDOB and COICA continue to undermine the Morales (MAS) Government's position on REDD: "La Coordinadora de Naciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (Coica) plantea en los foros de la Conferencia sobre Desarrollo Sostenible de las Naciones Unidas Río+20, que se realiza en Brasil, la creación de una Redd Indígena para el respeto de los territorios originarios, informó Carlos Mamani de la delegación boliviana que participa en el evento internacional."
WWF Scandal (Part 3): Embezzlement and Evictions in Tanzania
"WWF is embroiled in a two-part scandal over its work in Tanzania. In October 2011, thousands of villagers were evicted from a WWF project area in the Rufiji Delta. This year WWF Tanzania staff were caught embezzling funds."
Who is the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) & Who Are Their Sponsors?
WKOG admin: If you are still among the disillusioned who believe that...
Apr 16
20121
Carbon Markets | REDD, Conservation International, Environmental Defence Fund, Greenpeace, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Rainforest Action Network (RAN), World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
How Environmental Groups Gone Bad Greenwash Logging Earth’s Last Primary Old Forests
"Primary forest logging is a crime against Earth, the human family and all life - and those doing the logging, profiting and greenwashing the ecocide are dangerous criminals - who must be stopped and brought to justice. There is a zero chance of protecting and ending first time industrial logging of primary rainforests when the NGO Old Forest Sell-Outs say it is sustainable, even desirable, and continue to greenwash FSC old growth timber markets – now to be expanded with potential REDD funding – providing crucial political cover and PR for forest ecocide through their presence in the organizations."
WWF Scandal | Part 2 | Corporate Capture, Commodities and Carbon Trading
"A recent article asks whether corporations have captured big conservation? The subheading could have read, “Do bears shit in the woods?”
WWF Scandal | Part 1 | Bears Feeding on Toxic Corporate Waste
"WWF, the world’s biggest environmental organisation, is under fire. On 23 June 2011, the German TV station ARD broadcast a documentary highlighting WWF’s cozy relationship with distinctly unsustainable companies like the genetically modified giant Monsanto and the rainforest destroying palm oil company Wilmar. This week Global Witness published a report criticising WWF’s Global Forest and Trade Network."
Mar 28
20125
Carbon Markets | REDD, CIDOB | Confederation of Indigenous People of Bolivia, The International Campaign to Destabilize Bolivia, USAID
The Morales Government: Neoliberalism in Disguise?
"A useful starting point is the politics of the first TIPNIS march. Among the 16 demands of the protest were calls to support converting Bolivia’s forests into carbon credits (in line with the imperialist-sponsored Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation scheme) and shutting down 90 percent of Bolivia’s gas industry. The consequences of these demands would have been to auction off Bolivia’s forests to capitalist interests while closing off the major resource in Bolivia’s efforts to industrialise. Far from representing an anti-capitalist programme, these demands could only pave the way for transnational capital to reassert its power over Bolivia. Of course, the international campaign against the Morales government made no mention or criticism of these issues."
Three Indigenous Nations in Altamira area, Para, signed REDD contracts with Carbon Cowboy: Benedito Milleo Junior; A Representative from TopoGeo
"I was in the city of Altamira, the Amazon area in the state of Para, preparing to leave the next day. It was with a knot in my throat when I promised the young chief of one of the three indigenous nations in this area that had signed REDD contracts, not to reveal their identity. For years I have tried to inform indigenous peoples about the lies and wrongs that one day soon they will be told in order to obtain their consent for REDD projects on their indigenous territory." ...