REDD+ initiative for saving forests in Khyber PakhtunkhwaTHE FORESTS in Pakistan are severely threatened by growing consumption of fuel wood and illegal logging. It is feared that if immediate action is not taken this natural resource would be totally consumed within next 15 years.
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Deforestation now driven by profit, not povertyThe main drivers of deforestation worldwide are no longer subsistence-level farmers trying to put food on their tables, but corporations, converting massive tracts of land for industrial agriculture, said the founder of the Mongabay website, adding that this offers a rare opportunity for conserva
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East Africa's forests shrink, especially near parks
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Consumer demand 'can influence sustainable forestry'Harvesting forestry sustainably and profitably is entirely possible, but requires consumers and businesses to pressurise governments into action.
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REDD+: An incentive structure for long-term performanceReducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) was agreed at the UNFCCC as part of the 2010 Cancun Agreements, with an objective to ‘slow, halt and reverse forest cover and carbon loss’.
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Bolivia should prioritize cattle ranching, law enforcement in deforestation fight Bolivia should prioritize environmental law enforcement and slowing expansion of large-scale cattle ranching to reduce Amazon deforestation, argues a study published last month by researchers from G
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Poor seek to cut CDM access at U.N. climate talks(Reuters Point Carbon) - More than 130 of the world's poorest nations have sought to pressure richer countries to agree new legally-binding goals to cut greenhouse gas emissions by threatening to deny them access to cheap U.N.
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Agriculture Is the Direct Driver for Worldwide DeforestationA new synthesis on drivers of deforestation and forest degradation was published during the Bangkok climate change negotiations in September by researchers from Canada and from Wageningen University, Netherlands.
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Forest governance critical to global forest conservation, industry sustainabilityCOLLEGE STATION – Protecting forests and the livelihoods they support depends on the ability to develop and implement effectively policy and other initiatives with global cooperation, according to Dr.
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Going once, going twice….. the great green land grab“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore!” Mark Twain’s wry observation on the North American land acquisition boom of the late 19th century remains just as pertinent today as it was then.
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WB expresses concern over increasing deforestation in BangladeshThe World Bank (WB) has expressed deep concern as deforestation is alarmingly increasing in the country.
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Ilona Jankovits - 320217- Msc Global Business and Stakeholder Management - The Different Colours of REDD
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Agricultural expansion: an “either or more” factor in deforestation Pastureland has been identified as the leading driver of deforestation in many parts of Latin America.
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Ethiopian forest project gets UN carbon creditsThe U.N. has issued carbon credits to a reforestation project in Ethiopia, the second time tree planting has received emission reductions. The project in the village of Humbo, Ethiopia, which was approved by the U.N.
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Germany Beats Fast-Start Finance Commitment But Sees Need For More ScaleDeveloped countries have been uneven at best in defining
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Chainsaws massacre Tanzania`s green coverTanzania, which once prided in being among the greenest countries on the continent faces major threats of looming desertification brought about by major acts of deforestation.
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Can adaptation be a hook for local engagement in REDD+?As a primarily local issue, adaptation has more direct relevance to local people than the mitigation potential of REDD+, and in the absence of long term monetary benefits from REDD+, could emphasising the tangible contributions to local environmental conditions and wider governance reforms of RED
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Forests or Agriculture: not necessarily an ‘all or nothing’ trade-off BOGOR, Indonesia (16 October, 2012)_Making informed decisions on how to reduce carbon emissions from forestry and agriculture requires some solid knowledge about potential tradeoffs between development and conservation objectives: what you manage to win through avoided deforestation or reduced c
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Does cutting down tropical forest emit less carbon?To date, most estimates of the carbon emissions resulting from tropical deforestation have used data on changes in forest area and timber harvesting submitted to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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Kenya loses $145 million to deforestation in two yearsA joint Kenya Forest Service (KFS) and UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report released Monday, November 5, 2012, has revealed that deforestation deprived Kenya’s economy of 6.6 billion shillings ($77million) in 2009 and 5.8 billion shillings ($68 million) in 2010, making it a total of $ 14 in jus
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A Struggle for the Soul of the GCFExistential crises usually kick in mid-life, as one wakes and wonders: what is my purpose in life? Why am I here, and where am I going?
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The chairman of the world’s largest coal producer, the state-run Coal India Ltd., has a solution in mind to solve the country’s coal shortage: mine forest areas in a big way.
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Norway Pays Brazil for Deforestation Cut Amid Verification Row
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REDD+: What is needed to make it work for the poor?
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The UK sets out new efforts to tackle global deforestation
Energy and Climate Secretary Edward Davey today outlined new innovative plans to tackle deforestation as part of the UK’s international climate change commitments.
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An article of Aljazeera - the topic says everything...
You're buying an airplane ticket online. Scroll to the bottom of the website, and there's an option to "buy carbon credits" to "offset" the climate change-inducing emissions you are about to produce during your flight.
It sounds like an attractive, market-based way to appease your environmental conscience - and quite affordably, too. But what are you actually buying? And how much - if any - difference can it really make in the fight against global warming?
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MRV as a Trojan Horse for Carbon Markets?While the spectacular conference centre where the current climate talks are held looks rather unworldly, it is important to look at the realities behind these negotiations. In Paraguay, for example, the main cause of greenhouse gas emissions is deforestation.
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Give land to farmers, and they will stop deforestationLocal residents who have been living together with the forests, considering the forests as their homes, still devastate the forests. It’s because they need land for agricultural production.
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Deforestation Drivers: Population, Migration, and Tropical Land UseThe tiny global minority residing in rural frontier areas—how long people remain there; the timing, magnitude, and characteristics of their consumption; and their demographic transitions—promises a vast impact on future tropical deforestation.
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Forestry carbon cash boost could 'help drive forest REDD+ scheme' claims FRA The news that the World Bank's Forestry Carbon Fund has been boosted by an impressive $180 million in funding, has been welcomed by FRA.
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How Two Different Studies Found Consensus On Emissions From Tropical DeforestationIn order for the United Nations to achieve its goal of reducing carbon emissions from tropical deforestation by 50% between now and 2020, they have to know the amount of emissions that is currently caused by destroying tropical forests.
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WWF’s Living Forests Report forecasts a tripling of wood consumption in society by 2050 due to rising population and demandBy 2050, rising population and demand, as well as an increase in use of wood for bioenergy, could triple the amount of wood society takes from forests and plantations per year, according to the latest instalment of WWF's Living Forests Report .
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Land grabs and human rights violations exposed in Liberia ahead of global development summit
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Will more trees cause more rain?JOHANNESBURG, 8 February 2013 (IRIN) - It is commonly believed that destroying trees will influence the climate of a region. But scientific evidence to support that deforestation and afforestation influence local climate - affecting temperature and rainfall - has only just started emerging.
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EC Study "The impact of EU consumption on deforestation"Introduction
Deforestation is the permanent conversion of forest land into other uses. The main drivers of worldwide deforestation are agricultural expansion, logging, expansion of urban areas, and natural or human-induced disasters (e.g. wildfire).
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Europas Fleischhunger vernichtete zehntausende Quadratkilometer Wald
Zwischen 1990 und 2008 90.000 Quadratkilometer Wald für Agrarprodukte für Europa abgeholzt
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A new study shows what is wiping out our national forests, and how to find an environmentally friendly way forwardForest areas in Thailand have been shrinking at an alarming rate. Between 1973 and 2009, 30.9 million rai of land was cleared of trees, according to a study by Khwanchai Duangsathaporn, assistant professor at the Department of Forest Management, Faculty of Forestry at Kasetsart University.
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New study forecasts over 25 percent depletion of world's forestsForests worldwide will continue to slowly shrink before leveling out at a lower level, say researchers based at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, in a new study.
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“Zero” deforestation targets misleading, say expertsWARSAW, Poland — Targets set by governments and others to cut deforestation can be misleading and might not save as much rainforest as intended, undermining the fight against climate change, scientists say in a review published on
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