Years Later, Climatologist Renews His Call for Action

Global Forest Coalition is appalled at the lack of political will displayed at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Ninth Conference of the Parties (COP-9) and the direction the CBD is headed. Although countries in the Africa Group were unified in protecting biodiversity, other countries such as Brazil, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, and Japan blocked most progressive attempts to contain the alarming influence of industry now found in the CBD. Very disappointedly the CBD now makes it easier for genetically engineered trees to be commercialized, which sets back the gains achieved at the last CBD (COP-8) in Curitiba, Brazil in 2006.

 Here's a link to the entire 2007 movie in which director/narrator Leonardo DeCaprio, numerous scientists, scholars & visionaries outline our relationship to our environment and our effect upon it:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5684889615378087510&q=the+11th+hour+romana&ei=j4ogSPO3LYPoqgPBwoXBAQ&hl=en

Asunción, Paraguay--One week before the third meeting of the Roundtable on
Responsible Soy (RTRS) in Buenos Aires, Argentina [1], the Global Forest
Coalition, a worldwide coalition of Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and
Indigenous Peoples Organizations [2], have published an open call to NGOs to
withdraw themselves from the RTRS process [3]. The Coalition states that by
supporting the roundtable, NGOs are legitimizing the expansion of large-scale
soy monocultures that lead to massive deforestation, pesticide contamination,

Groups Condemn Biofuels as
"False Solution" During Brazil's President Lula Tour
of the Netherlands and Czech Republic

(Joint Release from Global Forest Coalition and Corporate Europe Observatory)

The Netherlands--Criticism is mounting denouncing Brazilian President Luiz
Inacio Lula da Silva's visit this week to the Netherlands and the Czech
Republic on a tour focused on promoting ethanol and other biofuels. The

Energy-saving light bulbs? Well, not exactly - Published Letter re Dark Side of CFL bulbs.