CLIMATE CHANGE [SCAM]: Native Peoples Reject Market Mechanisms - IPS ipsnews.net

SAN JOSÉ, Apr 1, 2010 (IPS) - Solutions to global warming based on the logic of the market are a threat to the rights and way of life of indigenous peoples, the Latin American Indigenous Forum on Climate Change concluded this week in Costa Rica.

Proposals from governments and international non-governmental organisations (NGOs), such as the Clean Development Mechanism and the UN-REDD Programme (United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries), "are new forms of economic geopolitics" that endanger indigenous rights enshrined in treaties, says the final declaration of the forum, which ended Wednesday.

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Reptile traders say the freeze killed so many snakes that the government should stop worrying about it.

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Of particular concern are the bittern and the Dartford warbler. "The population of the Dartford warbler was down to around 10 males in the 1960s but has made a comeback recently," added Madge. "However, it is now looking as if it has taken a bad hit this winter and it is quite possible some local populations will have been snuffed out."

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It is important to emphasise that at this time the important thing is to keep a clear and accurate record of what persons in positions of responsibility are doing. Then, when all is clear, to hold them to account for what they have done. It is much too early to understand the economic devastation that is coming as a result of misguided and corrupt institutional policies. The chain of causation will be much clearer in the future.