The government should work out how to stamp out long-standing illegal logging within two years if the country wants to secure funding from carbon trading in the forestry sector, say environment activists. They warned that failure to tackle illegal logging would also jeopardize the government’s...
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The Jakarta Post |
14 years 5 days ago
Mongabay |
14 years 5 days ago
The Copenhagen Accord, forged at COP15 upended international efforts to confront climate change. Never before have 115 Heads of State gathered together at one time, let alone for the singular purpose of crafting a new climate change agreement. Even though the new Accord is still in intensive...
Rural Media Network |
14 years 5 days ago
Experts are skeptical as to how fast and easy it will be to implement REDD-Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation-in a country like Ghana, where REDD is essentially an issue of forest governance.
The New York Times |
14 years 5 days ago
IT may seem quaint to recall this now, but on the eve of the financial crisis, one of the biggest business stories was how large corporations were going to save the planet and make billions of dollars for their shareholders at the same time.
14 years 5 days ago
Minister of Forestry and the United Nations launch joint effort to combat deforestation and forest degradation Jakarta, 30 March 2010 – Today the Ministry of Forestry and the United Nations launched The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest...
The Liberian Observer |
14 years 5 days ago
On Friday, April 3, 2010, several Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and donor partners including the World Bank and the United Sates Agency for International Development (USAID) gathered at a workshop organized by the Action Against Climate Change (AACC) Liberia. It was organized under the...
Climate-L |
14 years 5 days ago
March 2010: Global Witness, a non-governmental organization (NGO) representing civil society on the UN-REDD Policy Board, has submitted an assessment of the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Readiness-Preparation Proposals (R-PPs) and Joint Program Documents (JPDs) of the...
Focus Web |
14 years 5 days ago
The Guardian |
14 years 5 days ago
Document outlines key messages the Obama administration wants to convey in the run-up to UN climate talks in Mexico in November. A document accidentally left on a European hotel computer and passed to the Guardian reveals the US government's increasingly controversial strategy in the global UN...
Ecosystem Marketplace |
14 years 1 week ago
Delegates to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have gathered in Bonn, Germany, for the first meeting since Copenhagen. This three-day meeting, however, is more about process than product. Ecosystem Marketplace drops in for a quick look at the negotiations.
iisd2010 |
14 years 1 week ago
This paper analyizes the outcomes of the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP-15) held in December 2009 in the area of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in developing countries. The paper assesses key issues for the way forward in the REDD...
CIGAR |
14 years 1 week ago
Despite the virtual failure of the Copenhagen UN climate conference to come to a global agreement, the discussion on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD-plus) has continued with force. The current focus appears to be on helping developing countries get ready for...
DocuTicker |
14 years 1 week ago
Efforts to mitigate climate change have focused on reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into the atmosphere. Some of these efforts center on reducing CO2 emissions from deforestation, since deforestation releases about 17% of all annual anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and is seen...
Stabroek News |
14 years 2 weeks ago
In last week’s column I made a digression to deal with a few issues raised by Ambassador Brattskar, head of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative and the lead negotiator for the Norwegian government as they were reported in the Stabroek News, (March 21, 2010). Specifically, the...
The Himalayan Times |
14 years 2 weeks ago
Nepal, like any other developing country, now could sell carbon credits in the global market by way of reducing its contemporary deforestation and degradation rates and by way of forest conservation and enhancement. It sounds too good to be true? No, surely not. The world has now conceptually...
BBC |
14 years 2 weeks ago
Nestle Waters France wants to offset emissions from its factories in the west by buying trees in a rainforest thousands of miles away.. It is not the first and it will not be the last time a multinational company publicly declares its green intentions.But the public has become used to greeting...
Climate-L |
14 years 3 weeks ago
The UN-REDD Programme Policy Board met for its fourth meeting from 18-19 March 2010, in Nairobi, Kenya, and approved US$14.7 million in funding for national UN-REDD programmes in Bolivia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia. This decision brings the total amount of funding for UN-REDD...
Kenya Forests Blogs |
14 years 3 weeks ago
The KFS recently played host to about 50 UNDP visitors in the Kikuyu Escarpment, all of who are members of the UN REDD Policy Board. The policy members who are drawn from various countries around the world visited tree nurseries and the Kikuyu Escarpment Forest which has been partially fenced...
UN-REDD |
14 years 3 weeks ago
The UN-REDD Programme releases its inaugural Year in Review report for 2009.
Yahoo News |
14 years 3 weeks ago
LONDON, March 26 - The reputation of a Kyoto Protocol carbon finance scheme was dealt another blow after a UN climate panel late on Friday suspended the third emissions cut verifier in 15 months, and partially suspended a fourth. The scheme's executive board suspended emissions auditors TUEV SUED...