Aqui indicamos dois materiais para quem busca informações para uma crítica consistente a essa suposta ‘transição energética’ propagandeada pelo capitalismo verde. Mais do que isso: para aqueles que querem ir além da crítica e conhecer exemplos concretos de experiências comunitárias que apresentam alternativas a esse modelo de energia — seja ela "verde" ou não — típico da sociedade capitalista, que transforma a natureza em recurso e a energia em mercadoria.
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Escrito por quem pisa o território com os pés no chão, esse artigo faz uma afiada crítica às políticas climáticas elaboradas em negociações internacionais, como as COPs, que beneficiam os interesses econômicos daqueles que aceleram a destruição do planeta. Em nome dessas políticas, ‘biopiratas do carbono’ têm ameaçado diferentes comunidades indígenas e seus territórios ao redor do mundo. O autor, Arlen Ribeira Calderón, sabe do que fala. Ele é uma liderança indígena do povo Huitoto, na Amazônia peruana.
Empresas de energia lucram continuamente com atividades que alimentam e financiam o regime colonial de apartheid e genocídio de Israel contra o povo palestino. É isso que se destaca na recente publicação de uma coalizão global de dentro e fora da região.
A Conferência de Movimentos Florestais de Toda a Índia foi realizada em Nagpur, de 5 a 7 de abril de 2025. Reuniram-se mais de 400 representantes dos Adivasi (Povos Indígenas) e comunidades que vivem nas florestas, de 14 estados do país, para compartilhar experiências, desafios e estratégias. Com forte presença de mulheres, os participantes denunciaram as violações e ameaças sistêmicas que enfrentam, incluindo assédio, remoções forçadas para a criação de áreas protegidas, mercantilização das florestas e avanço de projetos extrativistas.
On the side-lines of the UN climate conference in 2023 in the United Arab Emirates, the government of Brazil introduced the “Tropical Forests Forever Facility” (TFFF). The fund, an idea initially thought up by the World Bank in 2018, is expected to be launched at the 2025 UN climate conference in the Amazon city of in Belem, in Brazil. Private sector and public investments and donations would provide the seed capital for financial managers to speculate on capital markets.
Communities in the Apouh à Ngog region of Edéa, Cameroon, continue to resist the violence of the Socapalm company (a subsidiary of SOCFIN) and heavily armed soldiers who seek to prevent the community from recovering a portion of their ancestral lands for food crops, after years of occupation by industrial oil palm plantations. International and national opinion must be vigilant and keep an eye on this situation.
Samling is a notoriously destructive Malaysian logging, plantations and construction company which has faced decades of opposition from indigenous peoples such as the Penan and the Kenyah for destroying their customary lands. In December 2023, the Samling subsidiary SaraCarbon listed a carbon project in the Malaysian state of Sarawak in the registry of the carbon standard provider Verra.
Meticulous research conducted by the New Social Cartography of the Amazon Project in conjunction with traditional communities in the upper Acará River area over the course of five years has resulted in the dossier “Indígenas Turiwara Tembé no alto rio Acará: conflitos étnicos e territoriais”. This outstanding work describes in detail the history and resistance struggles of traditional communities in this part of Pará, proving that the Turiwara Tembé belong in the territory they have demanded for many years.
Climate change is not a natural disaster. It is the result of decisions, practices and policies adopted and maintained by a relatively small number of actors, primarily for their own interests. Its consequences, however, are global and have the most significant impact in places and on communities that bear the least responsibility for creating the crisis.
COP29 approval of Article 6.4 is “opening the floodgates for a global carbon market that will have devastating impacts on communities in the Global South”
In her latest book, Cassandra, a long-standing activist against the carbon markets, puts together important information about the “overdose” of false solutions to the current climate emergency. Who is responsible for the current crisis? What have they done to get rid of their responsibility while making profits and destroying peoples’ livelihoods? By presenting past and recent cases, the book provides an anti-colonial analysis of the environmental crises and highlights Indigenous and forest-dependent peoples’ resistance.
The growing trend of corporations, particularly in the tech and agribusiness sectors, investing in carbon offset projects through tree planting is leading to large-scale land grabs in the global South. In this recent article, the organisation Grain shows that the rise in tree planting projects, fueled by corporate demand for carbon credits, has led to over 9.1 million hectares being targeted for conversion, primarily in Africa and countries like Brazil and India.