[Committee] R4 7:22 New campaign to value the rainforest

[Ms Almuth Ernsting]

Hello,

this is one of many schemes for 'trading in
ecosystems' or 'trading in forests', which are in line
with the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation in
Developing Nations (REDD) proposals that will be
discussed at COP13 in Bali.

For those who haven't seen it yet, here is an article
which Deepak and I wrote about the principle itself:

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/Avoided_Deforestation_Full.pdf
 .

I am not very familiar with this particular scheme,
but the principle of ecosystems trading is strongly
opposed by many forest campaigners and civil society
organisations in the global South.  I am currently
editing and translating a colleague's article about a
very similar initiative in West Papua and Aceh and
it's scary stuff!  We will post that article both on
the Biofuelwatch website and on the yahoo group once
it's ready.

Deforestation can only be stopped by addressing the
underlying causes, by guaranteeing the land and
community rights of the indigenous peoples and the
forest communities who are the true stewards of the
world's last old-growth forests.  You can find the
principles to which the World Rainforest Movement and
many other organisations are committed and which I we
should all support here:
http://www.wrm.org.uy/statements/Mumbai/index.html

Best wishes,

Almuth


--- Janet Alty <janet at alty.net> wrote:

> Many thanks Steve : the networking is happening. 
> Brill...
> 
> atb
> -- 
> Janet Alty, janet at alty.net
> Tel +44(0)1926 427773
> 
> 
> > From: "S.J. Stretton" <sjstretton at googlemail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 08:51:25 +0000
> > To: "Janet Alty" <janet at alty.net>
> > Cc: "Deepak Rughani" <dee.rughani at btinternet.com>,
>  "Almuth Ernsting"
> > <almuthbernstinguk at yahoo.co.uk>,  "Neale Upstone"
> <neale at nealeupstone.com>,
> > committee at zerocarbonnow.org
> > Subject: Re: R4 7:22 New campaign to value the
> rainforest
> > 
> > On 9/12/07, Janet Alty <janet at alty.net> wrote:
> >>  I can't get my machine to play it back to me,
> but I did hear it this
> >> morning and appears to be a new campaign to set
> value on the carbon in the
> >> Amazon, for example, name was Andrew Mitchell, I
> think and website may be
> >> [...]
> > 
> > VivoCarbon Initiative 
> http://www.globalcanopy.org/ ?
> > 
> > "Andrew Mitchell, GCP Founder and Director. Email:
> a.mitchell at globalcanopy.org
> > Hylton Murray-Philipson, GCP Trustee. Email:
> hylton at winven.co.uk "
> > 
> > "The GCP proposes that Britain and Brazil should
> enter into a
> > bi-lateral programme starting 2007 to develop,
> test, and implement a
> > new market in ecosystem services, including
> storage of carbon, with
> > the State of Amazonas (the Amazonas Initiative).
> In parallel, a
> > scientific and economic assessment will be made of
> the ecosystem
> > services forest canopies provide to the atmosphere
> and their value to
> > humanity in collaboration with the United Nations
> Environment
> > Programme."
> > 
> > "The Vivocarbon Fund will support the Amazonas
> Initiative as a "large
> > scale pilot project" called for in the UK
> Government's Stern Review
> > and will inform negotiations leading up to the
> 2012 Kyoto II round."
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> May be worth following up.
> >>  Best
> >>  --
> >>  Janet Alty, janet at alty.net
> >>  Tel +44(0)1926 427773
> >> 
> >> 
> 
> 




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