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Fri 12 Mar 10

Australia REDD offset model violates Australia's international obligations and should be considered as a fraud: the scheme aims to reduce deforestation is not, in fact aims to create a source of cheap credit for the increase in emissions in Australia.

Mon 4 Jan 10

Danish authorities are continuing to detain an Australian, Natasha Verco, for a fourth week since the Copenhagen climate conference. She is currently detained in the Vestre Faengsel prison, and will appear in court in Copenhagen on Monday January 4th 2010. Natasha was arrested on Sunday December 13th, three days before the major ‘Reclaim Power’ protest during the United Nations climate negotiations. She is being charged with “incitement” for her role in organising the climate justice protest.

Sun 3 Jan 10

See this page for a letter you can adapt and send, and also a letter from Federal Greens Senator to the Danish Consulate.

Thu 10 Dec 09

Now that the dust has settled on the immediate future of the carbon pollution reduction scheme, at least for the time being, and with the Copenhagen climate summit upon us, it makes sense to take stock of the state of the Rudd Government's policy proposal.

Wed 9 Dec 09

We are representatives from Dayak Ngaju tribe in Central Borneo, Indonesia, [and] we urge the Annex 1 States... to decrease their carbon emissions immediately, and not hide behind the projects, carbon trading, REDD, Nuclear Power Development and pay the money for these things that they do. We urge the forum COP 15 UNFCCC negotiations [to] break off negotiations under the pretext of conservation to climate change. Because behind the negotiations, there is a large project negotiations mining, oil palm plantations, Forest Plantation, which will add more damage to this earth. These negotiations have forced the developing countries (including Indonesia) became colonized countries had the mastery of natural resources through a scheme of climate solutions.

Thu 26 Nov 09

The national elections set for Sunday 29 November will be fraudulent, militarized with threatened massacres, and if recognised will legitimise the military coup regime. These proposed elections will not be free and transparent unless the constitutional president is first reinstated, and these elections postponed for a proper period. The level of violence to be unleashed is uncertain; people are expecting the worst, with memories of the atrocities against humanity of the 1980s in Central America. People had really hoped that these were history, never to be repeated.