Governance

INTRODUCTION

Nature is essential for our lives and is essential for how life can exist.

"The communities are closely connected to forests. It is impossible to imagine communities without forests because everything communities need is provided by the forests ... by preserving forests, families are preserving their own livelihoods. " -Campesino de Acre, Brasil

The coming UN climate conference in Paris, France, will likely produce an agreement on implementing Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD).

All humans have two things in common and that is, we walk on two legs and on each hand we have five fingers that we use in common. We are taught from infancy to use these hands and fingers as gifts of the Creator.

In early June 2015, the CEO of oil giant BP, Bob Dudley, gave a remarkable speech at the World Gas Conference in Paris. He presented a new role for oil multinationals like BP in “shaping the age of gas”.

Awareness of the problem of climate change and recognition of its roots in capitalism and inequality has grown, but all too often, big conservationist NGOs and groups focusing on the amount of CO2 molecules in the atmosphere end up having vague and unspecified demands for “action” or “solutions”

Over twenty years have passed since governments within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) began to discuss the impending climate crisis.

Climate change, the biggest threat to the planet, appears to be amplifying, as the “financialization of nature” through carbon markets resumes in earnest.

Over recent years, and especially since the financial crisis of 2008, the term Green Economy has become a hub around which the hegemonic discourse is reorganizing.