Climate Change Monitoring And Information NetworkThe CCMIN was established by AIPP together with its partner organisations as a channel for information dissemination and exchange at the local, national and regional levels on climate change issues relating to indigenous peoples. Through this monitoring and information network, AIPP hopes to facilitate greater sharing and access to information, and to contribute to awareness-raising and drawing of attention to the particular issues of indigenous peoples and climate change. This partnership endeavor pays special attention to Reducing Emission from De-forestation and Degradation (REDD) as a mitigation measure against global warming. |
Rapid growth of palm oil industry tramples indigenous peoples' rights, says report
Rapid expansion of oil palm plantations across Southeast Asia have run roughshod over customary tenure systems, resulting in exploitation of local communities, conflict, and outright human rights abuses, reports a new assessment of the palm oil sector by the Forest Peoples Programme (FPP), an international indigenous rights group.
The report, Palm oil and indigenous peoples in South East Asia, concludes that the rapid growth of the palm oil industry has outpaced safeguards, especially in Indonesia and Malaysia.
5 New Countries Join the UN-REDD Programme
The UN-REDD Programme’s Policy Board agreed in an inter-sessional decision in August to welcome Bangladesh, Bhutan, Central African Republic (CAR), Colombia and Guatemala as partners of the Programme and official observers to the UN-REDD Programme Policy Board.
Norway’s pension fund has disinvested from Barama. What does this mean for REDD in Guyana?
On 23 August 2010, Norway’s Finance Ministry announced that the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) had blacklisted the Malaysian logging giant Samling from its portfolio. The decision was made after a review by the Norwegian Council of Ethics of Samling and two Israeli companies.
Barama, one of the biggest logging companies operating in Guyana, is a subsidiary of Samling.
CIFOR Director General Delivers Keynote on Forests, Climate Change and Communities
24 August 2010: Frances Seymour, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), delivered a keynote address titled "Forests, Climate Change, and Communities: Making Progress up the Learning Curve" at the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) World Congress, being held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from 23-28 August 2010.
