A Darker Shade of Green - REDD Alerts & the Future of Forests
- When
- Fri Mar 16, 2012
- Where
- Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists
- Time
- 7 pm - 9 pm
- Tags
- Movies, Film Screenings
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Description
Jeff Conant of Global Justice Ecology Project present this new film, documenting opposition among Indigenous Peoples, forest-dependent communities and environmental justice groups around the globe, to controversial programs that claim to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) by putting forests into the carbon market.As REDD policies and programs are promoted around the world by corporations and governments, some are raising the alarm that these programs will have serious negative impacts—and will not mitigate climate change.
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