[WSMDiscuss] Fwd: REDD Alert! Xapuri Declaration: “We reject any form of climate colonialism”

[Estelle Fein]

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> Subject: REDD Alert! Xapuri Declaration: “We reject any form of climate colonialism”
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> NO-REDD Alert!
> Xapuri Declaration: 
> “We reject any form of climate colonialism”
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> >From 26 to 28 May 2017, a meeting took place in Xapuri, in the state of Acre, Brazil. The meeting brought together Apurinã, Huni Kui, Jaminawa, Manchineri and Shawadawa indigenous peoples, representatives of traditional communities, rubber tappers, academics and supporting organisations. The meeting’s theme was, “The effects of environmental / climatic policies on traditional populations”.
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> The meeting was supported by Friends of the Earth International, the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI), the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the World Rainforest Movement.
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> In a short report about the meeting, Daniel Santini of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, writes that the participants reject the term “carbon credits”, because they are actually “pollution credits”. Trading pollution makes the climate problem worse by giving the illusion that something is being done, when in fact it allows pollution to continue.
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> Santini writes,
> Instead of policies based on restrictions on the way of life of traditional peoples, the participants argued that the political-economic model of occupation of the region should be changed, with the suspension of generous public financing for agricultural expansion, industrial logging, and monoculture tree plantations.
> Days before the meeting, in Rio Branco, the capital of Acre, corporate and state government representatives met to discuss the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA). This is the aviation industry’s disastrous proposal to continue polluting, while using carbon credits to “offset” its emissions.
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> The World Bank is in talks with the International Civil Aviation Organization about using REDD credits in CORSIA.
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> Acre is one of the states from which California is looking to buy REDD credits as part of its cap-and-trade scheme. In April 2016, Dave Clegern, a Public Information Officer at the California Air Resources Board, said that,
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> “The projects that we’re looking at are supported by the locals. They are what is known as sector-based projects, which means that they would be run in conjunction with the government of that country which would provide the opportunity for regular monitoring, verification of the quality of the offsets.”
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> Read the declaration here: Xapuri Declaration, May 28, 2017
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> Leia a declaração aqui: Declaração de Xapuri, 28 de maio de 2017
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> Carbon Trading / Carbon Offsets are FALSE market-based solutions to climate change. Learn More about REDD / REDD+ at NO-REDD.com
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