REDD+ sounds so wonderful???? But beware, is not. It is not at all saving ecosystems, but the opposite. Market forces win with REDD++.
REDD++ directly means more global warming, instead of reducing. Long term longevity will continue to eat away at the world’s valuable natural habitats resources.
I am sure everyone has read numerous informational materials that promote REDD+++++++ But please be aware, REDD has never been created with the idea to save nor protect forests, but to create a scam - in which trees (reduced to plantations, with some "posterchild" projects to show . . ..) are reduced to "carbon sinks" to "store" carbon for polluters, that want to claim to have reduced emissions, while they are not ..
Please look into the current LULUCF text that would allow that exhausted plantations would receive carbon credits for planting "another plantation" that would replenish the soil (rewarding those that do anything else but "saving" ecosystems), the terrible definition of forests in the text of the UNFCCC (allows plantations, a forest in the global south is a forest when 2 m high and 10% forest canapé = plantations). GMOs will win with REDD with nothing that would ensure that biodiversity nor ecosystems are preserved.
Also look at the basics, that REDD would be an offset, serving polluters to buy time, and to offset their emissions via carbon credits, instead of reducing their emissions !
That is why at the Via Campesina march last December 7, 2010, the Climate Justice Now movements, and the Cochabamba Accord say: NO REDD !!!!!!
text by Rebecca Sommer
text by Rebecca Sommer
Including my activist organization SAVE, A.C.
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