Below is a news advisory from a coalition of groups opposing California’s “Cap-and-Trade” Program, otherwise known as “pollution trading.” I have written several articles against the neo-liberal carbon trading program that presents many,
“The pay-to-pollute scheme enables partner states and provinces in tropical regions to generate credits from their remaining tropical forests and to sell those credits to polluters in California to ostensibly ‘offset’ carbon emissions from the industrial burning of fossil fuels,” according to the news advisory.
MEDIA ADVISORY
April 26, 2016
Contacts:
Gary Hughes, Friends of the Earth, 707-223-5434, foe.org
Kay Cuajunco, California Environmental Justice Alliance, 619-889-7865, caleja.org
Tere Almaguer, PODER, 415-637-5832, tere@podersf.org
Sandra Lupien, Food & Water Watch, 510-681-3171, fwwatch.org
Thursday, April 28
Nigerian Environmental and Human Rights Advocate Visits Sacramento to Oppose Expanding Cap-and-Trade
Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface joined by California environmental justice and environmental advocates for rally at Air Board Hearing on controversial plan to add international forest offsets to California Cap-and-Trade Program
Sacramento — As the California Air Resources Board continues efforts to fast-track a controversial proposal with wide-reaching implications for the global climate and for poor and vulnerable communities internationally and in California, a visiting Nigerian environmental and human rights advocate will rally alongside California residents Thursday outside an Air Board hearing to protest expanding the state’s cap-and-trade plan to include offset credits generated under the United Nations’ Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) program.
After the rally, Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface will attend the hearing to share the findings of Seeing REDD: Communities, Forests and Carbon Trading in Nigeria, a report he co-authored for the Nigerian NGO Social Action, which highlights various human rights, land tenancy and economic justice concerns associated with REDD. The pay-to-pollute scheme enables partner states and provinces in tropical regions to generate credits from their remaining tropical forests and to sell those credits to polluters in California to ostensibly “offset” carbon emissions from the industrial burning of fossil fuels.
WHAT
Rally and Press Conference opposing California Air Resources Board proposal to expand the state’s cap-and-trade program to include REDD credits.
WHEN
Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 12:30 p.m.
WHERE
California Environmental Protection Agency Building
California Air Resources Board Sacramento Headquarters
1001 “I” Street, Sacramento (at building entrance at corner of 10th and I Streets)
WHO
Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface, Social Action, Nigeria
Mari Rose Taruc, Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Amy Vanderwarker, California Environmental Justice Alliance
Tere Almaguer, PODER
Gary Hughes, Friends of the Earth
Sandra Lupien, Food & Water Watch
Brian Nowicki, Center for Biological Diversity
VISUALS/AUDIO
People holding colorful signs
English and Spanish language interviews available.
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Nigeria: A new generation fights for a pollution free future – Amnesty International Interview with Fyneface D. Fyneface
California Environmental Justice Alliance Action
Cap and Clear-Cut: Article in East Bay Express
California plays fast and loose with environmental justice and climate science: Friends of the Eath – US
Food & Water Watch comments on expanding California’s Cap-and-Trade Program in include REDD credits
MEDIA ADVISORY
April 26, 2016
Contacts:
Gary Hughes, Friends of the Earth, 707-223-5434, foe.org
Kay Cuajunco, California Environmental Justice Alliance, 619-889-7865, caleja.org
Tere Almaguer, PODER, 415-637-5832, tere@podersf.org
Sandra Lupien, Food & Water Watch, 510-681-3171, fwwatch.org
Thursday, April 28
Nigerian Environmental and Human Rights Advocate Visits Sacramento to Oppose Expanding Cap-and-Trade
Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface joined by California environmental justice and environmental advocates for rally at Air Board Hearing on controversial plan to add international forest offsets to California Cap-and-Trade Program
Sacramento — As the California Air Resources Board continues efforts to fast-track a controversial proposal with wide-reaching implications for the global climate and for poor and vulnerable communities internationally and in California, a visiting Nigerian environmental and human rights advocate will rally alongside California residents Thursday outside an Air Board hearing to protest expanding the state’s cap-and-trade plan to include offset credits generated under the United Nations’ Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) program. After the rally, Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface will attend the hearing to share the findings of Seeing REDD: Communities, Forests and Carbon Trading in Nigeria, a report he co-authored for the Nigerian NGO Social Action, which highlights various human rights, land tenancy and economic justice concerns associated with REDD. The pay-to-pollute scheme enables partner states and provinces in tropical regions to generate credits from their remaining tropical forests and to sell those credits to polluters in California to ostensibly “offset” carbon emissions from the industrial burning of fossil fuels.
WHAT
Rally and Press Conference opposing California Air Resources Board proposal to expand the state’s cap-and-trade program to include REDD credits.
WHEN
Thursday, April 28, 2016 at 12:30 p.m.
WHERE
California Environmental Protection Agency Building
California Air Resources Board Sacramento Headquarters
1001 “I” Street, Sacramento (at building entrance at corner of 10th and I Streets)
WHO
Fyneface Dumnamene Fyneface, Social Action, Nigeria
Mari Rose Taruc, Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Amy Vanderwarker, California Environmental Justice Alliance
Tere Almaguer, PODER
Gary Hughes, Friends of the Earth
Sandra Lupien, Food & Water Watch
Brian Nowicki, Center for Biological Diversity
VISUALS/AUDIO
People holding colorful signs
English and Spanish language interviews available.
###
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Nigeria: A new generation fights for a pollution free future – Amnesty International Interview with Fyneface D. Fyneface
California Environmental Justice Alliance Action
Cap and Clear-Cut: Article in East Bay Express
California plays fast and loose with environmental justice and climate science: Friends of the Eath – US
Food & Water Watch comments on expanding California’s Cap-and-Trade Program in include REDD credits