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Comment 23 for Workshop on the Proposed Rice Cultivation Offset Protocol and Updates to Existing Offset Protocols (offset-protocol-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Tom
Last Name: Goldtooth
Email Address: ien@igc.org
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Subject: No REDD Rice Manifesto from 30 countries
Comment:
To the California Air Resources Board, On behalf of over 125 organizations from 30 countries, I respectfully submit the No REDD Rice Manifesto to you to request that you cancel the proposed Rice Cultivation Projects Compliance Offset Protocol and all existing and proposed Compliance Offset Protocols under the Cap-and-Trade Regulation. Carbon offsets, REDD and carbon trading are false solutions to climate change and must be excluded from California’s Global Warming Solutions Act AB32. The vast diversity of the signatories of the No REDD Rice Manifesto includes social movements of Indigenous Peoples, peasants, organic farmers, anti-GMO activists, environmentalists, scientists, women, youth, and cooks from California and all regions of Mother Earth. The world is uniting to stop the State of California from using our sacred staple crop for carbon offsets. Our food is not a sponge for your pollution. Our agriculture can not be used as an excuse for California's big polluters like Chevron to continue to spew greenhouse gas emissions and destroy the climate. Our climate and our future are not yours to destroy. Mother Earth and her peoples respectfully call on you to definitively reject rice offsets and cut emissions at source. Sincerely, Tom B.K. Goldtooth Executive Director of the Indigenous Environmental Network
Attachment: www.arb.ca.gov/lists/com-attach/55-offset-protocol-ws-UjwCawNdVHVVNgRg.pdf
Original File Name: No REDD Rice Manifesto with sign-ons.pdf
Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2014-03-29 08:20:37
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