Tackling the drivers of deforestation (and let’s not forget the drivers of forest degradation) is key to move towards REDD+, but it requires progress on three key issues:
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ODI |
11 years 10 months ago
Farm Online |
11 years 10 months ago
PLANTING of more than 10,000 hectares of mallee eucalypt trees is now underway as part of one fo the largest carbon forestry projects in Australia. A leading developer of carbon forestry projects, Carbon Conscious Limited, says thanks to timely rain, carbon forestry planting is now underway across...
Indian Law |
11 years 10 months ago
The REDD+ Principles identify a pathway to implement a human rights-based approach to development within REDD+ initiatives. The goal of the REDD+ Principles is to educate actors engaged in REDD+ and indigenous communities potentially affected by REDD+, regarding the human rights implications of...
ALLAFRICA |
11 years 10 months ago
The negligence of state institutions, including Parliament, to review Ghana's Timber Rights Fees (TRF), popularly known as 'Forest Fees', meant for the state is having rippling effects on the Mills-led government and the Grace Bediako 'cooked figures' middle-income country.
FNI |
11 years 10 months ago
Greater coordination amongst donor countries is required in order to secure environmental and social standards and to monitor the readiness of host countries to move from the preparatory phase of REDD to generating actual reductions in emissions. Clear and binding environmental and social...
Financial News |
11 years 10 months ago
Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global should invest in agricultural land and forests as a hedge against any climate change policies that governments around the world may introduce, according to a report specially prepared by investment consultant Mercer. The Nkr3.3 trillion ($550bn) fund, the...
REUTERS |
11 years 10 months ago
(REUTERS) - Negotiators aim to finish work on how to measure the CO2 content of tropical forests by the year-end U.N. meeting in Qatar. But, according to a draft U.N. document, nations will take another year to complete work on ensuring that any move to cut emissions by slowing down deforestation...
Climate Connections |
11 years 10 months ago
The program Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD Plus), driven by the UN, has been embraced by the government of Mexico since 2010, and its flagship is Chiapas where, as in other countries, the program is controversial.
IFG |
11 years 10 months ago
Bonn, 22 May (Hilary Chiew) – Parties differed in their views on the use of private finance for forest-related activities at the spin-off group under the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long term Cooperative Action under the Framework Convention on Climate Change (AWG-LCA) to...
REDD-Earth |
11 years 10 months ago
Earlier this month, political ecologists Betsy Beymer-Farris and Thomas Bassett published “The REDD Menace: Resurgent Protectionism in Tanzania’s Mangrove Forests” in the journal Global Environmental Change. The article critically examines the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)’s involvement in both...
The REDD Desk |
11 years 10 months ago
This document is part of the publications series produced by the Forest and Climate Change Programme of FAO.
The Sun Daily |
11 years 11 months ago
The government plans to allocate RM3 billion for expansion of forest plantations in the country to achieve an area covering 375,000 hectares by 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pic) said today. He said the government had so far allocated more than RM600 million for the...
UC Davis |
11 years 11 months ago
A new study from the University of California, Davis, provides a deeper understanding of the complex global impacts of deforestation on greenhouse gas emissions. The study, published May 13 in the advance online edition of the journal Nature Climate Change, reports that the volume of greenhouse...
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CIFOR |
11 years 11 months ago
Despite recent research that has closely linked climate change and water scarcity with a rapidly rising deforestation rates, the international climate community still mainly thinks of forests in terms of their carbon storage potential rather than the critical role they play in regulating rainfall...
Hardwood Flooring |
11 years 11 months ago
The Tropical Forest Foundation (TFF) recently launched a 60-day fundraising campaign to establish a Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) training center in the Peruvian Amazon. TFF will work with communities and government officials to teach SFM practices to harvesting companies in order to...
StateImpact |
11 years 11 months ago
Woe is the eco-conscious consumer. Just when they think they’re buying green, something screws it all up. The latest group allegedly mucking things up is the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), which is losing corporate sponsors amid allegations of “green-washing.”
NBC Bay Area |
11 years 11 months ago
California's new Cap and Trade program has been hailed as the gold standard in environmental law for the entire world. Not only are other states looking to the law but other countries, too, are watching to judge its effects on the global economy and environment. Now, NBC Bay Area's Investigative...
Irin News |
11 years 11 months ago
The world’s largest producer of teak, an Indonesian state-owned company on the island of Java, has again been awarded sustainable forest management (SFM) certification. But the company has a long and sometimes contentious relationship with forest communities in the area, and the forest rights of...
Environmental Leader |
11 years 11 months ago
There is not a single matter related to papermaking that touches each of us as personally and emotionally as forestry. Simply put, people love trees. Some people envision responsible paper manufacturer as engaging in deforestation but, in fact, our suppliers are harvesting sustainability with a...
Your-Story |
11 years 11 months ago
Forestry Research Associates (FRA) has stated that the signing of a sustainable forestry agreement between China, the Republic of Korea and Japan is an "extremely positive move” in the fight against desertification and deforestation. The three nations met at the Fifth Trilateral Summit Meeting over...