False solutions for climate change are hurting tribal people
Survival International has issued a report exposing four “mitigation measures” that are harmful for tribal people: biofuels, dams, forest conservation and carbon offsetting (PDF). All these measures lead to a massive land grab in places inhabited by indigenous people. Survival Director Stephen Corry says: This report highlights ‘the most inconvenient truth of all’ – that the world’s [...]

Feeding factory farms
To lower the meat production costs, agribusiness corporations have increasingly used soy grown in Latin America to feed cattle. The cheap soy usually comes from deforested areas, namely in the Amazon, and the production methods envolve GMO’s and large doses of pesticides. This is the story of “Killing Fields”, a docummentary made by Friends of the [...]

The Kamburu Story – A community-led response to climate change in Kenya
A video on how a community in Kenya is fighting environmental degradation using traditional farming methods (link). Posted in climate justice

New book on carbon trading
Carbon Trade Watch has just launched a new book on carbon markets. “Carbon Trading – How it works and why it fails” (available here for download) was written by investigators Oscar Reyes and Tamra Gilbertson and is a indispensable tool for anyone who cares about climate justice or simply wonders why is it so hard [...]

They got it all along!
Posted in oil