This document summarises the key themes that emerged from a series of workshops and interviews about the FTA with representatives from local organisations, collectives, and Indigenous and traditional communities in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. It provides valuable insight into the positions and preoccupations of community members across Mercosur.
Socioenvironmental safeguards and the guarantee of forest people’s rights
Socioenvironmental safeguards and the guarantee of forest people’s rights
For almost two decades, the mechanism known as REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), coined under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), has proved resilient as a proposal for dealing with greenhouse gas...