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19 October 2010, 21.05 World Rainforest MovementThe ITT oil exploration block, located within the borders of Ecuador’s Yasuní National Park, is an area of extraordinary biological diversity. The Ecuadorian proposal to leave the estimated 850 million barrels of oil reserves in this block untouched, in perpetuity (see WRM Bulletin Nº 157), marked a change of course in the right direction towards biodiversity conservation. Ecuador, whose economy is largely dependent on oil exports, would thereby prevent the emission of |
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11 September 2010, 22.26 Latin America Energy and Environment MonitorBy Carmelo Ruiz-MarreroYasuni: the battle's not over yetAfter years of intense local and international campaigning and lobbying by environmentalists and indigenous peoples, the Ecuador government finally signed on to the Yasuni-ITT Initiative (link) on August 2. Thus for the first time in history a nation state accepts a binding agreement to leave fossil fuels |
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06 September 2010, 00.18 CNNYasuní is both a place and a metaphor.The place is a UNESCO Biopshere Reserve in the Ecuadorian Amazon where two indigenous communities, the Tagaeri and the Taromenane, live in voluntary isolation. Below the biosphere lie the oil fields Isphingo, Tambococha and Tiputini, abbreviated to |
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30 July 2010, 00.00 Chapter by Laura Rival, University of OxfordOil has been a mainstay of Ecuador’s national development for more than forty years, with oil revenues constituting a major share of government revenues. As the oil frontier continues to expand in indigenous territories and in protected areas, oil has become a source of conflict. Since the early 1990s, there have been conflicts in the Amazon region over extraction, with the opening, for instance, of new fields in Canelo Kichwa, Shuar and Achuar |
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17 March 2010, 09.49
Pamela L. Martin , Ph.D., Coastal Carolina University
Global Governance from the Amazon: Leaving Oil Underground in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador
Paper Presented at the 51st Convention of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 16-21, 2010
Download the paper 423.60 |
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12 March 2010, 04.18 By Pamela L. Martin, PhD, ENS Newswire
CONWAY, South Carolina, February 16, 2010 (ENS) - In December
2009, as the world waited for a global climate change agreement at the
UN Copenhagen climate summit that was never resolved, one bright spot
for conservation remained - the protection of a paradise of
biodiversity, a portion of Yasuni National Park in Ecuador's Amazon.
Ecuador's innovative plan to keep some 850 million barrels of oil
underground and avoid nearly 410 million tons |
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11 March 2010, 08.42 by Gerard Coffey - Alborada.net
The resignation in January of the Ecuadorian Foreign Minister,
Fander Falconí came as a real shock to most observers; it was probably
not something Falconí himself had foreseen. His departure provoked a
minor earthquake within government circles, but a reading of his
dispute with President Rafael Correa suggests that whatever the
personal grievances, the major problem is not what his resignation
implies for the long term well being of the |
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22 January 2010, 08.42 by Kevin Koenig, Northern Amazon Program Coordinator
, Amazonwatch
Ecuador's historic proposal to keep some 850 million barrels of
crude that lay beneath the country's stunning Yasuní National Park hit
a familiar roadblock last weekend, as President Rafael Correa
undermined his own negotiating team, denounced foreign donors, and
threatened to drill in the ITT oil block (named for the oil wells
Ishpingo, Tambococha, Tiputini) in |
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15 January 2010, 10.18
Friends:
For almost three years we have kept alive the proposal to keep the oil
underground in the ITT block of Yasuni National Park in Ecuador.
International support has been impressive. However, we are
now in a high-risk stage.
The initiative to keep the oil underground needed a trust-fund as a
tool to, amongst other things:
1.Guarantee the use of the money according to environmental
principles
2.Guarantee that future governments |
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15 January 2010, 08.27 Treehugger, Fander Falconí, Foreign Affairs Minister of Ecuador, has resigned due
to differences with president Rafael Correa in the issue of the
country's plan to protect the Yasuni reservation at the Amazon forest.
The president of Ecuador has also set a deadline for the |
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15 January 2010, 08.22 New York Times , QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- Ecuador's foreign minister resigned Tuesday after President Rafael Correa criticized his handling of negotiations to prevent oil drilling in a pristine Amazon reserve.
Fander Falconi was the third government official to resign over a plan to seek international donations of $3 billion over the next 10 years to keep an estimated 850 million barrels of heavy crude oil under the ground in the remote Yasuni National |
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16 December 2009, 05.14 Commentary by Nikolas Kozloff, special to mongabay.com
As climate change
negotiations continue full force in the Danish city of Copenhagen,
Latin American countries are hoping the Global North will commit to its
“climate debt” by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and providing
resources to poor nations. It’s certainly an understandable aspiration:
Latin America only produces five per cent of global emissions of carbon
dioxide, a chief greenhouse gas, yet the region has |
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01 December 2009, 06.08
By Naomi Klein - November
11th, 2009
Published in Rolling
Stone
One last chance to save the world—for months, that's how the United
Nations summit on climate change in Copenhagen, which starts in early
December, was being hyped. Officials from 192 countries were finally
going to make a deal to keep global temperatures below catastrophic
levels. The summit called for "that old comic-book sensibility of
uniting in the face of a common danger threatening the Earth," |
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23 October 2009, 06.33
amerias program. Alberto Acosta, Eduardo Gudynas, Esperanza Martínez, and Joseph H. Vogel | August 13, 2009
The government of Ecuador has presented a novel proposal to not exploit
the oil reserves of the Yasuní National Park. The economic benefits of
exporting crude oil are limited compared to the social, economic, and
environmental costs of extracting oil from the Amazon, with its
enormous ecological and cultural diversity. |
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06 August 2009, 16.00 Kevin Gallagher, Guardian.co.uk. Should the world pay Ecuador not to
extract oil? President Rafael Correa's argument makes perfect economic |
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03 July 2009, 06.20
The Economist.
An ambitious scheme to save pristine forest starts to take |
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