Amazon Watch—Asia Pacific Environmental Network—Battle Creek Alliance—California
Environmental Justice Alliance—Carbon Trade Watch—Center
for Biological Diversity—Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment—Communities for a Better Environment—Filipino
American Coalition for Environmental Solidarity—Food & Water Watch—Forests Forever—Friends of the Earth-US—Greenpeace International—Global Community Monitor—Global
Exchange—Grassroots Global Justice Alliance—Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice—Green
Party of Alameda County—Health of Mother Earth Foundation (Nigeria)
—Justice in Nigeria Now! —Indigenous Environmental Network—International
Indian Treaty Council—Movement Generation: Justice and Ecology Project—Oilwatch
International—Rainforest Action Network—
Sierra Club California—Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples
The Honorable Jerry Brown
Governor of California
c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173
Sacramento, CA 95814
Via fax: (916) 558-3160
Mary Nichols
Chairman, California Air Resources Board
1001 “I” Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
Via fax: (916) 327-5748
Climate Change Policy – International Forest Offsets in California’s Cap and Trade Program
Dear Governor Brown and Chairman Nichols,
Following the recent release of the recommendations put forward by the
REDD Offsets Working Group (ROW) we would like to use this
opportunity to explain why we urge you not to approve the use of
international forest offsets as a compliance option within California’s
emissions trading scheme.
For
years our organizations, most of which are based in California, have
been working toward the protection of forests, preventing catastrophic
climate change, and promoting ecological justice
and social equity. In this context we applaud the State of California
for considering new ways to curb its emissions and protect the last
remaining tropical forests. However, ROW’s proposal to use rainforests
as an offset to replace industrial emissions would
achieve none of these objectives.
En ocasión del 21 de marzo, fecha proclamada por la Asamblea General de
las Naciones Unidas como Día Internacional de los Bosques (1), el
Movimiento Mundial por los Bosques Tropicales (WRM) junto a numerosas
organizaciones y movimientos sociales, hacen un llamado a la Asamblea
General y a instituciones e iniciativas de las Naciones Unidas
vinculadas al tema bosques, a que utilicen la nueva iniciativa para
abordar los factores subyacentes de la deforestación. 
