Abholzung

Forests / Waelder: Deforestation, REDD+, Abholzung, Klimawandel, Klimaänderung, Climate change

AMONG THE MANY NASTY things that humans are doing to the environment, few rank worse than destroying tropical forests. Rainforests sustain an astonishing diversity of species and keep our planet liveable by limiting soil erosion, reducing floods, maintaining natural water cycles, and stabilising the climate. Yet roughly 10 million hectares of tropical forest are destroyed every year – the equivalent of 50 football fields a minute.

Forestry / Forstwirtschaft: Forstplantage, Industrial forest plantation, Nachhaltige Forstwirtschaft, Nachhaltige Waldwirtschaft, Sustainable forest management

Forests / Waelder: Deforestation, Abholzung

Researchers have questioned 2009 findings by the Forest Survey of India (FSI) that found that India's forests were, unlike many tropical Asian nations', on the rebound. According to the FSI, Indian forests had grown by almost five percent from the 1990s. Yet, were these finding too good to be true?

According to Jean-Philippe Puyravaud and Priya Davidar of Pondicherry University, and William Laurance from James Cook University, the findings were very likely too optimistic.

Forestry / Forstwirtschaft: Nachhaltige Forstwirtschaft, Nachhaltige Waldwirtschaft, Sustainable forest management

Forests / Waelder: Deforestation, REDD+, Abholzung

It must be realised that while population growth and poverty do threaten forests, their destruction is more seriously determined by institutional and economic policies. Institutional failure can occur due to pro-degradation land use development policies or if there is a lack of regulation of resource use or corruption

Forests / Waelder: Deforestation, REDD+, Abholzung, Klimawandel, Klimaänderung, Climate change, Illegal logging, Illegale Holzschlägerungen, Land use change, Landnutzungsänderung, LULUCF

June 2010: The UNFCCC Secretariat has published the report of the informal meeting of experts, which took place in Bonn, Germany, from 25-26 May 2010, on enhancing coordination of capacity-building activities in relation to using the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidance and guidelines as a basis for estimating forest-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, forest carbon stocks and forest area changes.