Category: indigenous peoples
Outcomes of the Global Expert Workshop on REDD in Developing Countries
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Biased media reports that present only part of the story cause damage to serious efforts in nature conservation and sustainable development in Brazil
Instead of helping to solve a problem that governments, scientists and environmentalists all over the world are trying to solve, the PBS-Frontline reports make an extremely negative contribution to this effort. These investigative reports fail to gather all the facts on purpose and lead viewers to a completely erroneous understanding in an anti ethical and unprofessional manner. The reports "The Money Tree" and "The Carbon Hunter", published respectively in October of 2009 and May of 2010,...
REDD in indigneous territories of the Amazon Basin
This document summarizes a study carried out by the Insituto Socioambeintal (ISA), with support from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), on legal frameworks for implementing projects for the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in indigenous territories of the Amazon Basin. Its main objective is to answer the question, "Will indigenous peoples of the region be the direct beneficiaries of REDD projects in their territories?" The study focused on...
