Presentations

• Tribal Development
  An illusive story on sustainable development …with a touch
  of humor, created by the River Basin Friends in Assam,
  India, to share, laugh, and shiver (part 1)
• Tribal Development
  An illusive story on sustainable development …with a touch
  of humor, created by the River Basin Friends in Assam,
  India, to share, laugh, and shiver (part 2)

REDD:

• Country Presentations REDD report
• EDD Realities
  Simone Lovera, Global Forest Coalition and Sobrevivencia-Paraguay, October 2009
• Road map for safeguarding indigenous rights in EU REDD policy and proposals
  Bas Clabbers, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality, the Netherlands. May 2009
• The Hottest REDD Issues:
  Rights, Equity, Development, Deforestation and Governance by Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. Poznan December 2008. 
  The current debate on policies and incentives to reduce deforestation and forest degradation could have a positive outcome if it is reshaped into a discussion about a coherent cross-cutting compliance regime with the main legally binding agreements.
• REDD versus People
  The impact of REDD and other market mechanisms on women
• Reducing deforestation in developing countries
  Incentives to reduce emissions from deforestation in developing countries (REDD) and their impacts on indigenous peoples, local communities and woman

• Eat Fuel: Biofuels in Asia
  Anna Pinto, CORE the centre for organisation research & education . Manipur- Goa India. May 2009.  
• Biofuel Certification Schemes 
  Resistance To ‘Sustainability’ Criteria For Soy
  Nina Holland, Corporate Europe Observatory. May 2009
• European Committee for Standardization’s initiative for sustainability criteria for biomass, CEN/TC383
  Leo van der Vlist, Netherlands Centre for Indigenous Peoples (NCIV). May 2009 

• Impacts of soy monoculture in Paraguay 1
  Impacts of soy monoculture in Paraguay 2
  And the opposition against certification systems.
  
• Oil palm plantations in Indonesia 1
  Oil palm plantations in Indonesia 2
  Million hectares of oil palm plantations are a tremendous disaster for indigenous
  Peoples. By AMAN Indonesia.
  
• The agrofuel plantation horror show (part 1)
  The agrofuel plantation horror show (part 2)
  Exploiting people and places. By Timberwatch South Africa.
  
  
  

• Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change: From Bali to New York
  Side Event at the 7th Session of the UNPFII

• Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change:
  Experiences of Pastoralists of Africa
  Presentation by Adam Kuleit Ole Mwarabu at IAITPTF & GFC side event April 2008
  UNPFII, New York, US.

• Climate Change
  Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation - in the Pacific
  The Liquid Continent
• Payment for Environmental Services (PES) and Indigenous Peoples
  The impacts of market-based biodiversity conservation on Indigenous Peoples, local communities and women

• Worldbank : Climate Profiteer

• Forest and Climate Change
  Reducing emissions from deforestation 

• Kaa he'e
  Presentation by Simone Lovera about the theft of Paraguayan traditional knowledge regarding the zero-calorie natural sweetener Stevia by Coca-Cola and Cargill
  
• Trading biodiversity : Life for Sale!
  Presentation on the privatization of biodiversity and
  traditional knowledge. Who has the right to own biodiversity? Are markets the panacea for biodiversity conservation?
• Ecotourism…sustainable enough?
  Presentation on the impacts of ecotourism by Equations, India.
• Protected Areas Aotearoa: The reality of Maori Land
  New Zealand is known for it’s record on human rights, indigenous rights and environmental protection, but how much of this is reality?
  
• The SAN-CSIR ABS agreement
  Presentation by Anneta Bok, representative of the San People in South Africa, on the theft of traditional knowledge of the San People regarding the Hoodia plant, and the unfair and inequitable access and benefit agreement they were offered.
• International Regime on Access and Benefit Sharing
  Presentation by Simone Lovera, managing coordinator of the Global Forest Coalition on the different elements of the existing international regime on access and benefit sharing of genetic resources and traditional knowledge, and how they promote biopiracy.
• Introduction to the FCCC, the Kyoto Protocol and Carbon Trade
  A Depressing Story. Partly based on the report: Carbon Trading, a Critical Conversation about Climate Change, Privatisation and Power, edited by Larry Lohmann, published by the Dag Hammerskjold Foundation
  
• The Big Business -as-Usual Fraud
  Why does the climate regime allow carbon trading?
• Carbon Trade and its impact on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples
  Why does the Climate Regime allow Carbon Trading?
• Climate Change and Biodiversity
  The new wave of colonization for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
  
• Reducing Deforestation and the Climate Regime
  Proposals, complications and questions
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