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Ecuador - Pay-to-protect plan for Ecuadorian rainforest on the brink Print E-mail
Monday, 13 October 2008
The Guardian. Ecuador's offer to prevent oil drilling in the protected Yasuni national park if it receives compensation of $350m a year has received no firm commitment from the international community.
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Gordon Brown urged to pay millions to stop oil firms destroying Amazon rainforest Print E-mail
Tuesday, 07 October 2008

The Telegraph. Rainforest campaigners will this week urge the Government to pay out millions of pounds to stop oil reserves under the Amazon being exploited.

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German paliament approves motion to support the ITT project in Ecuador Print E-mail
Friday, 25 July 2008

The German parliament, with the support of many different parties, approved to support the proposal by the Ecuadorian Government to keep the oil underground in the ITT field in Yasuní national park.

They ask president Correa to extend the term to collect money untill december 08.

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New Internationalist and Yasuní Green Gold Campaign publication Print E-mail
Monday, 07 July 2008

The New Internationalist , together with the Yasuní Green Gold Campaign and Movimiento Idun will publish a photo book in September about the Yasuní rainforest. 

The New Internationalist has also dedicated their July issue to Yasuní national park.

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Ecuador celebrates world environment day, Marks first anniversary of ITT initiative Print E-mail
Monday, 16 June 2008

(Washington, DC-) In order to celebrate World Environment Day as well as the first anniversary of the signing on the Ishipingo-Tambococha-Tiputini (ITT) Initiative, the Embassy of Ecuador in the United States is please to present the status of this unique initiative.

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Ecuador’s Oil Change: An Exporter’s Historic Proposal Print E-mail
Tuesday, 08 April 2008
UpsideDownWorld Quito, Ecuador — On a clear day, high in this Andean capital city, the nearby volcanoes glisten in the distance under the equatorial sun. Of the five visible volcanoes, the most startling is Cotopaxi — both for its proximity and for its remarkably receding glacier. Cotopaxi has lost 30 percent of its glacier over the last several years and people are taking notice.
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Ecuador's Yasuni Park: Oil Exploration or Nature Protection? Print E-mail
Tuesday, 25 March 2008
Corpwatch by Agneta Enström. Manuela Omari Ima, a Waorani woman from the Ecuadorian Amazon, was born in the Yasuni National Park, a 2.5 million acre primary tropical rainforest at the intersection of the Andes, the Amazon and the Equator. That intersection is also the heart of a struggle between two plans: one for oil exploration and another that would permanently protect one of the most biologically diverse regions of the planet.
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Ecuador: Protecting Diverse Forests and Peoples Print E-mail
Monday, 03 March 2008

Brooke Jarvis, YES Magazine.

Rafael Correa won the Ecuadorian presidency on the strength of his promises to deliver much-needed social programs to his country’s largely impoverished population. He also pledged to protect Ecuador’s natural heritage of biodiversity. Add to this political mix a lot of foreign debt and a billion or more barrels of oil located under a UNESCO bioreserve in the Ecuadorian Amazon, and it’s clear why some observers saw the nation as caught in a classic stalemate between development and environment.

 

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Ecuador to avoid exploitation of oil field in Amazonian forest Print E-mail
Thursday, 24 January 2008
QUITO, Jan. 24 -- Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa Thursday ordered the creation of the ITT Yasuni Project Technical Secretariat to avoid the exploitation of the Ishpingo Tambococha Tiputini (ITT) oil field in an Amazonian natural reserve.
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From False to Real Solutions for Climate Change Print E-mail
Wednesday, 09 January 2008
MRZine by Patrick Bond

Amidst her welcome critique of the biofuel mania, Vandana Shiva's ZNet commentary last month (December 13, 2007) also made this point: "The Kyoto Protocol totally avoided the material challenge of stopping activities that lead to higher emissions and the political challenge of regulation of the polluters and making the polluters pay in accordance with principles adopted at the Earth Summit in Rio.  Instead, Kyoto put in place the mechanism of emissions trading which in effect rewarded the polluters by assigning them rights to the atmosphere and trading in these rights to pollute."

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Voices from the South Print E-mail
Thursday, 13 December 2007

Joan Martinez-Alier and Leah Temper

Kyoto has failed. Despite so many admonitions from the IPCC, the reality is that emissions of carbon dioxide in the world are going up by over 3 per cent per year. This is the failure of the countries that signed up to Kyoto, and even more so, of those like the United States who stayed outside the timid Kyoto framework, and also of those not included in Annex I of the Rio de Janeiro treaty of 1992.

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