Source: Lecho.be

Par: Esmeralada de Belgique, activiste de l'environnement 

Les peuples indigènes du Brésil voient leur environnement disparaître sous leurs yeux. En important des ressources issues du déboisement de terres protégées, la Belgique s'en rend complice.

Par: Elena Garcia

Date: 31 janvier 2020

Date: 23 septembre 2019

Source: Farmlangrab, RFI

Par: Laurent Correau

A conversation with Julie Maldonado, Associate Director at Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (LiKEN), and Co-Director of Rising Voices: Climate Resilience through Indigenous and Earth Sciences.

Date: 11 septembre 2019

Source: Mediaterre.org

Souvenons-nous : "L'Ile Maurice ne doit pas seulement être la vitrine des hôtels de luxe. La destination mauricienne ne se résume pas aux plages ...", clamait Joël de Rosnay, conseiller spécial des questions environnementales auprès du Premier Ministre mauricien lors de la campagne Maurice Ile Durable déployée en 2009.

Introduction

The Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Amazon Biome map was produced by Imazon in order to contribute towards monitoring in the region. The methodology applied simultaneously generates mapping of deforestation and forest degradation [caused by logging activity and forest burning] using Landsat satellite images. Existing methods individually detect and map those processes, which can lead to overlaps in the results and increasing uncertainty in estimates of annual deforestation rates.

By Kathleen Buckingham

Trees have become an iconic image of environmentalism, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we should plant millions of them.

Author: Ahmadou Aly Mbaye

Editor's Note: 

The 2015 U.N. climate change conference was a historic moment in which the world agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Through the Paris Agreement, parties consented to a long-term pathway of climate-resilient development.

The failure to secure the property rights of rural communities shows a clear policy gap between citizens and rights to land as per the Constitution and the attitude and practices of the state, traditional leaders, white farmers and mining companies in relation to such rights. 

Absent from the discourse spurred by the motion passed in the National Assembly on 27 February is what could be achieved in the interim for land reform programme using existing legislation while the country awaits a verdict on the constitutional amendment to determine whether is possible to expropriate land w

Date: 2 janvier 2018

Source: Farmlandgrab

Par: Gaëlle CLOAREC

Total s’apprête à importer dans le sud de la France des quantités massives d’huile de palme, fruit d’une monoculture intensive, pour produire des biocarburants. Alors que l’Union Européenne, 2e importateur mondial, cherche à réglementer.

In March, the Trump Administration released a new budget proposal that would cut funding to the Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development by 28 percent. The proposal also reduces funding to the United Nations for ongoing climate change efforts.