On 11 March 2010, an international conference took place in Paris, hosted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy: the International Conference on the Major Forest Basins. While 64 nations took part in the conference, Indigenous Peoples were not invited. A press release from the Forest Peoples Programme denounces the lack of transparency and participation in the discussions By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 19th March 2010 The Paris conference was widely hailed as a success, with a furtherUS$1 bill... [Read Post]
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