As large-scale land acquisitions increased by close to 20 percent over the past year, a growing number of land defenders and indigenous leaders faced intimidation, arrests and even death. Environmental devastation is spreading across the developing world, involving...
At the foot of a miniature Eiffel Tower, civil society, environmentalists and Indigenous Peoples rejected REDD, a carbon market mechanism, land-grabbing false solution to climate change that could potentially cause genocide, at the World Climate Summit today....