The third issue of Alter-Eco, the climate justice newsletter of the
Bali climate conference, is now online. It can be downloaded from:
http://www.altereconews.org
Or direct download from:
http://www.tni.org/altereco/altereco3.pdf
In this issue:
New World Bank Find Triggers REDD Alert
Nusa Dua?s Burdened Past
Taking a Chainsaw to the World while Promising to Protect Forests
Carbon Financing for Ocean Dumping
Making Money Grow on Trees will not Protect Forests
Fuel from Trees Risks Opening Pandora?s Box
If you would like to contact people for further information about any
of the articles in Alter-Eco, contact:
Janet Redman - janet@ips-dc.org - +62-8174779143
(New World Bank Find Triggers REDD Alert)
Marianne Klute ? klute@snafu.de - +62-81318063680
(Nusa Dua?s Burdened Past)
Jutta Kill ? jutta@fern.org - +62-81936183387
(Taking a Chainsaw to the World while Promising to Protect Forests)
Kevin Smith ? Kevin@carbontradewatch.org
(Carbon Financing for Ocean Dumping)
Ronnie Hall - ronnihall@googlemail.com - +62- 81338959738
(Making Money Grow on Trees will not Protect Forests)
Anne Peterman - globalecology@gmavt.net - +62-81338918437
(Fuel from Trees Risks Opening Pandora?s Box)
For more photos of the climate protest in Bali, or of the devastating
impacts of the carbon market on communities around the world, contact
Tamra Gilbertson, tamra@tni.org - +62 -8174779110
Who We Are:
Alter-ECO is published by a group of non-governmental organizations,
Indigenous Peoples Organizations and social movements at the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change COP-13, who have come together
to make a unified call in support of real, relevant, effective and
human rights-based solutions to climate change.
We oppose the false market-based response to climate change, including
carbon trading, carbon financing and agrofuels, that is being
implemented under the Kyoto Protocol. Because of their commercial
appeal these 'solutions' are at the top of the political agenda.
However, they are being used as a smoke-screen to ward off legislation
and delay the urgent action needed to cut emissions and develop
alternative low-carbon solutions that allow for a shift from fossil
fuel dependence. At the same time they encourage business and people
to continue with, or even increase, polluting activities, as well as
reducing life to a mere commodity to be bought and sold.
We join together to produce Alter-ECO as an instrument through which
to project our collective voice, which reflects the views and concerns
of grassroots constituencies and impacted communities all over the
world.
To submit an article, event, photo or graphic to Alter-ECO, please
email globalecology@gmavt.net
Organizations contributing to this issue: Global Justice Ecology
Project, Global Forest Coalition, Carbon Trade Watch, Transnational
Institute, FERN, CORE (Center for Organizational Research and
Education), PIPEC, The Corner House, SEEN, Biofuel Watch, World
Rainforest Movement. Alter-ECO does not necessarily reflect the views
of all of the participating organizations or contributors to Alter-ECO.
Para leer Alter-ECO en Español visite: www.altereconews.org