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Press kontakt: Frédéric Mousseau [email protected] +1 510-512-5458 Oakland, Kalifornien — I anknytning till klimatmötet One Planet Summit i Paris, släpper Oakland Institute en rapport om kolkolonialism (Carbon Colonialism: Failure of Green Resources’ Carbon Offset Project in Uganda) som avslöjar västerländska företags falska klimatlösningar. Rapporten exponerar det norska skogsindustribolaget Green Resources fortsatta urholkning av livsmedelsförsörjningen och livsuppehället i Kachung, Uganda, där människor hindras från att använda sin egen mark.

Media Contact: Frédéric Mousseau [email protected] Oakland, CA — As the One Climate Summit begins in Paris, the Oakland Institute's new report, Carbon Colonialism: Failure of Green Resources’ Carbon Offset Project in Uganda, lays bare the false solutions to climate change promoted by Western corporations and institutions in Africa. This scathing exposé reveals how Green Resources, a Norwegian industrial forestry and carbon offset project, continues to undermine food security and livelihoods by excluding people from their own land in Kachung, Uganda.

Biofuels Are Not the Solution to Airlines Growing CO2 Emissions Oakland, CA — On October 13, 25 countries convened by the UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) rejected the 2050 Vision on Sustainable Aviation Fuels that included volume-based targets for biofuels proposed by the ICAO Secretariat. The ICAO Secretariat’s proposal intended to see 128 million tons of biofuels a year being burned in plane engines by 2040, going up to 285 million tons (half of all aviation fuel) by 2050.

Today, the Oakland Institute releases Palestine: For Land and Life, an extensive project comprised of nine reports and multimedia materials. 2017 marks 70 years since the Nakba — the Catastrophe — which resulted in the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their land and homes; 50 years since the Six-Day War and Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip; and 100 years since the Balfour Declaration, which laid the foundation for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Photo © Charlie Pye-Smith, AFSP Geneva, Switzerland — Negotiations are underway this week with the Open-Ended Intergovernmental Working Group (OEIWG) on the text of a UN declaration on the rights of peasants and other people working in rural areas. Peasants and rural workers provide nearly 70 percent of the world’s food supply, but are disproportionately impacted by poverty, malnutrition, climate change, environmental degradation, and face ongoing threats of displacement and criminalization.

2017 marks 70 years since the Nakba, the Catastrophe, which resulted in the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their land and homes; 50 years since the Six-Day War and Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip; and 100 years since the Balfour Declaration, which laid the foundation for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Today, most of the world’s 12.1 million Palestinians are still displaced or remain refugees.

World Bank fuels land grabs in Africa through shadowy financial sector investments Oakland, CA — The World Bank Group has indirectly financed some of Africa’s most notorious land grabs, according to a report by a group of international development watchdogs. The World Bank’s private-sector arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), is enabling and profiting from these projects by outsourcing its development funds to the financial sector.

Oakland, CA — As the World Bank Group’s spring meetings get underway in Washington, DC, the Bank’s complicity in corporate grabbing of land and natural resources around the world has become more blatant than ever. As large-scale land acquisitions increased by close to 20 percent over the past year, a growing number of land defenders and indigenous leaders faced intimidation, arrests and even death.

Oakland, CA — As the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) meets to discuss transitional justice and human rights in post-war Sri Lanka, a new report from the Oakland Institute, Justice Denied, exposes the many issues that continue to plague land release and resettlement in the country, and the failure of the Sri Lankan government to fulfill its international commitments to transitional justice.

Oakland, CA — A landmark report from the Oakland Institute, Taking On the Logging Pirates, Land Defenders in Papua New Guinea Speak Out! elevates the voices of communities across the country who are opposing the theft of their land, made possible by the corrupt practices of local officials and foreign companies. In recent years, Special Agriculture and Business Leases (SABLs) — a government scheme — has been instrumental in fueling land grabs all over the country, with over 5.5 million hectares given away to foreign companies.