industryterm:forest management

Greenpeace International ends its Forest Stewardship Council membership
▻https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/greenpeace-international-ends-its-forest-stewardship-council-membersh

https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2018/03/30005236/colombia_1160.jpg

“We believe robust timber certification is a helpful but imperfect tool for protecting people’s rights and improving forest management, which is why Greenpeace International will not renew its Forest Stewardship Council membership,” Matt Daggett, a campaign leader at Greenpeace International, said in a statement.

#Greenpeace announced its decision on March 26, saying in a briefing statement that the #FSC was not accomplishing its goals of protecting forests and the rights of people who live there. The organization called on the FSC to increase the transparency of its certification process and to do more to ensure that certified companies were indeed adhering to the FSC’s social and environmental standards. Greenpeace also said the FSC needed to go beyond the certification of timber operations to safeguard standing forests. The briefing statement noted that the FSC’s application of its policies across countries was “uneven,” especially in places where forest governance was lacking.

#certification #bois #industrie_forestière

World Bank and UN carbon offset scheme ’complicit’ in genocidal land grabs - The Ecologist
▻http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2523733/world_bank_and_un_carbon_offset_scheme_complicit_in_genocidal_land_gra

The plight of Kenya’s Sengwer people shows that carbon offsets generated by ’sustainable’ forest management are empowering a corporate recolonisation of the South backed by the World Bank against its own guidelines, writes Nafeez Ahmed. Indigenous forest peoples are at risk of genocide while corporations let rip.

Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 500 million acres of land in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean was acquired or negotiated under deals brokered on behalf of foreign governments or transnational corporations.

Many such deals are geared toward growing crops or biofuels for export to richer, developed countries - with the consequence that small-holder farmers are displaced from their land and lose their livelihood while local communities go hungry.

The concentration of ownership of the world’s farmland in the hands of powerful investors and corporations is rapidly accelerating, driven by resource scarcity and, thus, rising prices. According to a new report by the US land rights organisation Grain:

“The powerful demands of food and energy industries are shifting farmland and water away from direct local food production to the production of commodities for industrial processing.”

And now, the carbon market is joining the race

Less known factors, however, include ’conservation’ and ’carbon offsetting’.

In west Kenya, as the UK NGO Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) reported, over a thousand homes had been torched by the government’s Kenya Forest Service (KFS) to forcibly evict the 15,000 strong Sengwer indigenous people from their ancestral homes in the Embobut forest and the Cherangany Hills.

Les pays tropicaux doivent suer jusqu’à la dernière goutte et payer pour les pays riches