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California Should Reduce Emissions, Not Pretend to Offset Them with Tropical Forests, Says Broad Coalition

Environmental justice, Indigenous, green groups and academics to state regulators: Trading pollution is no climate solution

Sacramento, CA – Today the California Air Resources Board will vote on a proposed policy to pay foreign states and provinces to sequester California's industrial CO2 emissions in their tropical forests. Citing a decade's worth of failed forest carbon projects, a coalition of environmental justice organizations, Indigenous Peoples' representatives, green groups, academics and international forest-dwelling people have come to Sacramento to tell CARB to reject the policy, known as the Tropical Forest Standard (TFS).

Strict Amazon Protections Made Brazilian Farmers More Productive, New Research Shows

Strong environmental protections are necessary to save the Amazon, protecting Brazil and the world from the loss of this critical, fragile habitat. Far from being bad for business, Brazil's Amazonian protections help sustain the country as a global breadbasket. If Bolsonaro scraps them, he won't just imperil a legendary rainforest. He'll hurt Brazilian farmers, too – and the consumers worldwide who depend on them.

Activists Deliver One Million Petitions to Governor Brown to Phase Out Fossil Fuels in California

Día de los Muertos Event at Capitol Celebrates the Resilience of Frontline and Indigenous Communities Fighting for a Healthier Future

Sacramento, CA – With the midterm elections just days away, the Brown's Last Chance campaign delivered nearly 60,000 petitions to Governor Brown urging him to freeze new fossil fuel permits in California during his final time in office. Californians and allies from around the globe have directly petitioned the Governor over a million times to phase out the fossil fuel production harming their communities and the climate since he took office in 2011.

Bolsonaro Victory Spells Disaster for the Brazilian Amazon, Spurs Resistance Movement

"The ascension of the divisive and callous politician Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency poses enormous challenges for democracy, human rights, and environmental preservation in Brazil. His administration could undo decades of hard-fought socio-environmental advances and move the country back toward the dark days of its brutal military dictatorship."

Block 64: The Wampis Nation Denounces the Serious Socio-Cultural Impacts of GeoPark and PetroPeru's Maneuvers

The oil companies GeoPark and PetroPeru have no limits when it comes to forcing their operation in Block 64 in Loreto Region. In recent months these companies have increased their activities designed to confront a small handful of communities that support their project against the majority of communities that are opposed to the risk of seeing contamination in their territory, which is the patrimony inherited from our ancestors.