Climate News Network: Indigenous people in Panama are asking the United Nations to close down its global forestry programme, REDD, in their country.
REDD -- Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation -- is designed to slow climate change by preventing the destruction of the worlds most vulnerable forests. It is a key part of the UN`s attempts to tackle a warming climate, and failure in Panama will have impacts much further afield.
The demand, by the National Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples...