Friday, September 7, 2012

Environmentalists and indigenous people against carbon offset trading

Latinamerica Press: World Bank pushes program that could bring negative environmental and social consequences. Central American environmentalists and indigenous people are intensifying efforts to prevent governments in the region from participating in a program promoted by the World Bank that seeks to include these countries in the carbon credits market, claiming it will have deleterious effects on the environment and the people. Social organizations have sent letters to the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership...

URL: http://lapress.org/articles.asp?art=6700

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