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Coalition calls for indigenous representation in REDD Partnership
2013-10-13 21:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Post: Indigenous people should have a permanent representative in a partnership of 75 countries that aims to decrease the global carbon footprint through reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), a civil society coalition says. Asia- and Australia-based members of the REDD+ Safeguards Working Group (R-SWG), a North-South coalition of civil society and indigenous peoples organizations, issued the call for indigenous people to be granted full partner status in the REDD+ Partnership,...
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Indigenous peoples resume occupation of Brazil's Belo Monte dam site
2013-09-19 07:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: 150 indigenous protesters have once again occupied the Belo Monte dam site in an effort to block the controversial project, reports Amazon Watch, an NGO that is helping lead the fight against the dam. Amazon watch says that members of the Parakan and Juruna indigenous communities blocked a key access road, shutting down construction activities for the day. It was the eighth occupation since 2012. This demonstration aimed to push the government to respect the tribes' rights as well as earlier...
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Will Norway withdraw from Repsol because of indigenous people?
2013-09-18 16:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: NGO claims Norway's Council on Ethics recommends blacklisting oil company but the Finance Ministry won't budge Share Tweet this Email Women from Ecuador's Amazon region join a march in Quito in support of the government's proposal to allow oil drilling in a section of the Yasuní national park. Photograph: Dolores Ochoa/AP Some years ago, the Council on Ethics within Norway's Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) began investigating oil and gas company Repsol. The council's stated aim is to...
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Indigenous people of Honduras granted one million hectares rainforest
2013-09-12 21:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: One-hundred and fifty years after a treaty with England granted the Miskito people rights over their land--a treaty which was never fully respected--the government of Honduras has officially handed over nearly a million hectares (970,000 hectares) of tropical forest along the Caribbean Coast to the indigenous people. The Miskito are found along the eastern coast of both Honduras and Nicaragua and number around 200,000. "This is an unprecedented and historic moment for our peoples," said Norvin...
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Starvation, Poverty Follow Indigenous Land Sales in Indonesia
2013-09-03 21:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment News Service: The village of Zanegi in Merauke Regency of Papua Province, Indonesia, lies desolate and silent, in contrast to the rumble and drone of bulldozers and chainsaws in the distance. At the end of a row of humble wooden houses, 31-year-old Yosefa, an indigenous Malind mother of three, crouches beside her hearth, raking the embers of a dying fire, whilst rocking to sleep her three-year old infant. The child is emaciated and hollow-eyed. Gaunt and lethargic from severe malnutrition herself, Yosefa wipes...
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