"Selling Off Our Forests Is a Business for the Peruvian Government"
Thursday, December 4, 2014 - 10:30
in Mathematics & Economics
On the eve of the arrival of negotiators at a crucial UN conference on climate change, a new report shows that, despite public commitments to protect Peru's forests, the first Amazonian host of the UN COP is ignoring the real drivers of deforestation and failing to safeguard the rights of indigenous peoples. This, despite the fact that these peoples occupy approximately one third of the Peruvian Amazon and offer the best chance of defending the country's precious forests.
