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Indigenous Peoples Network of Malaysia statement on purported forest carbon deal in Sarawak with Sydney-based company
Tags:Tue 17 Aug 10
We feel it is important to make clear that it is not our network that is involved in this deal as we strongly and consistently endorse a process of free, prior informed consent (FPIC) before signing any deal that involves our forests and territories. This should involve a mandatory process where the communities are fully informed and independent workshops should be conducted to allow the communities to freely make a decision on their communal forest.
Read moreA Statement On Population and Climate Change
Tue 10 Aug 10
In recent months, calls for population control policies have come to the fore in discussions about how best to tackle climate change. Friends of the Earth Sydney is troubled by the risks associated with calling for population control in the name of climate change. Such demands can justify the undermining of women’s reproductive rights and fuel racist migration and border control agendas.
Read moreUpdates from the Yellowcake Road Collective
Tags:Sun 8 Aug 10
As the Yellowcake Road crew make our way from Lucas Heights, Sydney, to Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory we'll be touching base when we can to share our adventures! As the first journey (perhaps of many!) along the proposed radioactive waste transport route we are finding that we are bringing the first news of the waste transport. In our talks with locals and community groups we are hoping to have the opportunity to visit again and hold public meetings to help build awareness and local resistance to the dump and the waste's 3,376km journey!
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NEW REPORT RELEASED: What a Scam! Australia’s REDD Offsets for Copenhagen
Wed 25 Nov 09
Today, Friends of the Earth Australia and AidWatch are releasing a joint report ‘What a Scam – Australia’s REDD Offsets for Copenhagen’, examining the Australian and Indonesian Governments’ program to create carbon ‘offsets’ from reduced deforestation. The Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme will allow 100% of Australian emissions reductions to be found offshore. Indonesia is the first target, with the AusAid funded Kalimantan Forests and Climate Project designed to establish reduced deforestation as an acceptable offset.
Read moreNow available for download: Climate Justice Kit!
Sun 25 Oct 09
Friends of the Earth Sydney Collective is proud to unveil our new Climate Justice Kit! We created it to be a resource for climate justice action – for people organising in their communities and in their workplaces. Download it by clicking through to this page, or from http://tiny.cc/JmgXh
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