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Indigenous association to sue to shut down Panama's REDD+ program
2013-05-17 20:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Panama's largest association of indigenous people will sue the Panamanian government to shut down the country's Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) program. The National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP) announced its intent after it failed to reach agreement with the United Nation's REDD+ program, which has been working to establish a forest conservation framework in the Central American country. REDD+ aims to compensate tropical countries for cutting...
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Indigenous group: Brazil using military to force Amazon dams
2013-04-08 14:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: An Amazonian community has threatened to "go to war" with the Brazilian government after what they say is a military incursion into their land by dam builders. The Munduruku indigenous group in Para state say they have been betrayed by the authorities, who are pushing ahead with plans to build a cascade of hydropower plants on the Tapajós river without their permission. Public prosecutors, human rights groups, environmental organizations and Christian missionaries have condemned what they call...
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Indigenous People Call For REDD+ Safeguards In California's Carbon Market
2013-03-30 03:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecosystem Marketplace: Using the REDD+ mechanism to fight deforestation and climate change involves a complicated and lengthy process that crosses over several sectors. Because of its complex nature, Valentino Shal of the Mopan Maya Indigenous people says multi-stakeholder engagement is key to REDD's success. Shal is an Indigenous Social Development Consultant for the Mopan Maya community in southern Belize-a region offering pristine rainforest, mountains and rivers. It's an area that could easily work for a REDD (reducing...
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Panama's indigenous people drop REDD+
2013-03-19 14:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP) has announced it is withdrawing from the United Nation's REDD+ program following a series of disagreements. The exit of COONAPIP from the negotiating table with UN officials and the Panamanian government will likely be a blow to the legitimacy of REDD+ in the central American country. REDD, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, is a program to reduce emissions by safeguarding forests. In a statement COONAPIP...
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Indigenous women fight climate change
2013-03-15 09:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Latinamerica Press: Beginning two years ago, about 350 indigenous women farmers from 14 localities of the central Bolivian department of Cochabamba have been applying strategies to confront climate change. These women are part of communities from the municipalities of Tapacarí, Arque, Bolívar, and Sicaya, where in the last years the drought has worsened and there is a shortage of water reservoirs. According to the newspaper La Opinión, of every 10 watersheds, only two can supply water. Likewise, the lack of grasslands...
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