On Friday, Nov. 16, environmental justice groups, indigenous people’s organizations, scholars and international forest protectors will hold a press conference and rally at the California Air Resources Board (CARB) in Sacramento to denounce the agency’s misguided plan to endorse the proposed Tropical Forest Standard.
Friday’s event marks a continuing push by affected community members in California and the Global South to alert policymakers to the destructive and divisive nature of tropical forest offsets programs like (REDD+) and to call on the CARB to exclude them from the state’s cap and trade system.
Leaders from Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria and California are rejecting the Air Resources Board’s proposed forest carbon credit scheme
What: Trading Pollution is Not a Climate Solution: Press briefing and rally.
When: Friday, Nov. 16, 7:30 am rally, 8 am press briefing
Where: California EPA, 1001 I Street, Sacramento, CA – outside the front atrium
Who:
- Marlon Santi, Sarayaku Nation, Ecuador
- Ninawa Huni Kui, Chief of the Huni Kui Federation, Acre, Brazil
- Isaac Asume Osuoka, Social Action, Nigeria
- Ana Valadez Ortega, Centro de Estudios para el Cambio en el Campo Mexicano, Mexico
- Tom Goldtooth, Indigenous Environmental Network
- Pennie Opal Plant, Idle No More SF Bay
- Leila Salazar-López, Amazon Watch
- Michelle Chan, Friends of the Earth
- Gladys Limon, California Environmental Justice Alliance
- Brian Nowicki, Center for Biological Diversity
Interviews and Multimedia: Available upon request.
For more information, visit Climate Justice Alliance or the Facebook page.
The event is co-sponsored by Idle No More SF Bay, California Environmental Justice Alliance, Climate Justice Alliance, Women’s Earth & Climate Action Network, Asia Pacific Environmental Network, Indigenous Environmental Network, Amazon Watch, Friends of the Earth U.S., Center for Biological Diversity and Rainforest Action Network.
MEDIA CONTACT: Zoë Cina-Sklar: zoe@amazonwatch.org, (510) 671-1878
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Amazon Watch is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 to protect the rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with indigenous and environmental organizations in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability and the preservation of the Amazon's ecological systems.