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17 March 2010, 09.49
Pamela L. Martin , Ph.D., Coastal Carolina University
Global Governance from the Amazon: Leaving Oil Underground in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador
Paper Presented at the 51st Convention of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 16-21, 2010
Download the paper 423.60 |
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12 March 2010, 04.18 By Pamela L. Martin, PhD, ENS Newswire
CONWAY, South Carolina, February 16, 2010 (ENS) - In December
2009, as the world waited for a global climate change agreement at the
UN Copenhagen climate summit that was never resolved, one bright spot
for conservation remained - the protection of a paradise of
biodiversity, a portion of Yasuni National Park in Ecuador's Amazon.
Ecuador's innovative plan to keep some 850 million barrels of oil
underground and avoid nearly 410 million tons |
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11 March 2010, 08.42 by Gerard Coffey - Alborada.net
The resignation in January of the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister,
Fander Falconí came as a real shock to most observers; it was probably
not something Falconí himself had foreseen. His departure provoked a
minor earthquake within government circles, but a reading of his
dispute with President Rafael Correa suggests that whatever the
personal grievances, the major problem is not what his resignation
implies for the long term well being of the |
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22 January 2010, 08.42 by Kevin Koenig, Northern Amazon Program Coordinator
, Amazonwatch
Ecuador's historic proposal to keep some 850 million barrels of
crude that lay beneath the country's stunning Yasuní National Park hit
a familiar roadblock last weekend, as President Rafael Correa
undermined his own negotiating team, denounced foreign donors, and
threatened to drill in the ITT oil block (named for the oil wells
Ishpingo, Tambococha, Tiputini) in |
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15 January 2010, 10.18
Friends:
For almost three years we have kept alive the proposal to keep the oil
underground in the ITT block of Yasuni National Park in Ecuador.
International support has been impressive. However, we are
now in a high-risk stage.
The initiative to keep the oil underground needed a trust-fund as a
tool to, amongst other things:
1.Guarantee the use of the money according to environmental
principles
2.Guarantee that future governments |
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15 January 2010, 08.27 Treehugger, Fander Falconí, Foreign Affairs Minister of Ecuador, has resigned due
to differences with president Rafael Correa in the issue of the
country's plan to protect the Yasuni reservation at the Amazon forest.
The president of Ecuador has also set a deadline for the |
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15 January 2010, 08.22 New York Times , QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Ecuador's foreign minister resigned Tuesday after President Rafael Correa criticized his handling of negotiations to prevent oil drilling in a pristine Amazon reserve.
Fander Falconi was the third government official to resign over a plan to seek international donations of $3 billion over the next 10 years to keep an estimated 850 million barrels of heavy crude oil under the ground in the remote Yasuni National |
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16 December 2009, 05.14 Commentary by Nikolas Kozloff, special to mongabay.com
As climate change
negotiations continue full force in the Danish city of Copenhagen,
Latin American countries are hoping the Global North will commit to its
“climate debt” by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing
resources to poor nations. It’s certainly an understandable aspiration:
Latin America only produces five per cent of global emissions of carbon
dioxide, a chief greenhouse gas, yet the region has |
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01 December 2009, 06.08
By Naomi Klein - November
11th, 2009
Published in Rolling
Stone
One last chance to save the world—for months, that's how the United
Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen, which starts in early
December, was being hyped. Officials from 192 countries were finally
going to make a deal to keep global temperatures below catastrophic
levels. The summit called for "that old comic-book sensibility of
uniting in the face of a common danger threatening the Earth," |
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23 October 2009, 06.33
amerias program. Alberto Acosta, Eduardo Gudynas, Esperanza Martínez, and Joseph H. Vogel | August 13, 2009
The government of Ecuador has presented a novel proposal to not exploit
the oil reserves of the Yasuní National Park. The economic benefits of
exporting crude oil are limited compared to the social, economic, and
environmental costs of extracting oil from the Amazon, with its
enormous ecological and cultural diversity. |
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06 August 2009, 16.00 Kevin Gallagher, Guardian.co.uk. Should the world pay Ecuador not to
extract oil? President Rafael Correa's argument makes perfect economic |
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03 July 2009, 06.20
The Economist.
An ambitious scheme to save pristine forest starts to take |
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26 June 2009, 04.00
Climate Protection (From: Wir Klimaretter ) Germany wants to pay 50 million US dollars
annually into a trust fund so that Ecuador won´t exploit its huge
oil reserves in the jungle.
Gerhard
Dilger, Porto |
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01 April 2009, 06.38 22 members of the European parliament sent a letter to President Correa in which they ask him to extend the ITT proposal to the whole of the Yasuní biosfere reserves, as well as other UNESCO recognized biosfere reserves in Ecuador. |
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05 March 2009, 07.24 By Esperanza Martínez
Acción Ecologica
On Februray 5, 2009, presidential decree number 1572 indefinitely
extended an initiative not to exploit crude oil located in Yasuní
National Park in |
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16 February 2009, 13.18 President Indefinitely Extends Historic Rainforest Protection Proposal
Quito, Ecuador, Feb 24 (AW)--The President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa,
recently signed a decree that breathed new life into the country’s
pioneer proposal to keep its largest oil field permanently underground in
one of the most pristine areas of rainforest in the world. |
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