Germany to pay $ 650 million in order to protect Rainforests in EcuadorGermany has apparently agreed to fund a significant portion of Ecuador's scheme to leave Amazon rainforest oil reserves in the ground, according to Business Green.
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The world's first really green oil dealThe world's first genuinely green energy deal is about to be sealed. In a plan which could be a blueprint for saving large tracts of the planet from exploitation, a greater value is being put on a pristine wilderness than on the oil that lies beneath.
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Trees on Shaky Ground in Texaco’s Rainforest
NUEVA LOJA, Ecuador, Mar 29, 2011 (Tierramérica) - When the trunks of the trees move with every step you take, you know you are in a swamp. This is what happens when you walk over the seemingly firm and vegetation-covered ground over what was once a pit used to dump oil sludge in the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest.
The extent and impact of oil contamination on the environment and human health in northeastern Ecuador are much worse than anyone could imagine, as Tierramérica discovered during an extensive tour of the area.
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Germany's Withdrawal of Funding Threatens Plan to Save Ecuador Forest
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Four months to save the world's last great wilderness from 'oil curse'
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Ecuador's climate plan worth a look
Developed countries including Canada have insisted it is imperative that developing countries should also shoulder responsibility for combating greenhouse-gas emissions if they expect a truly effective international approach to dealing with climate change.
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Ecuador: Threats From Carbon Market Ecuador’s participation in the global carbon market has generated complications in indigenous peoples and Afro-Ecuadorian communities, which have not only seen cutbacks in their rights to use land for ancestral activities, but whose organizations have also undergone fracturing due to the governme
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Ecuador, Nepal and Acre Leading by Example on REDD+ Safeguards
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TIME MAGAZINE - The canoes slip away from the dock, the morning mist still clinging to Anangucocha Lake in eastern Ecuador's Yasuni National Park. The water is the ink black of old tea, the paddles vanishing beneath the surface with every stroke.
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CCBA & CARE’s REDD+ Social and Environmental Standards: Experience using REDD+ SES November, 2011. REDD+ Social and Environmental StREDD+ SES consists of principles, criteria and indicators that define high social and environmental performance of government-led REDD+ programs. They provide a framework for country-led multi-stakeholder assessment of REDD+ program design, implementation and outcomes.
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Ecuador Asks World to Pay to Keep Yasuni Oil UndergroundEcuador is eyeing the international Green Climate Fund as a way to help pay for its plan to trade oil for forests, a top government representative said.
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South-South Learning: From Payments for Environmental Services to REDD+ in Latin America
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Sustainable development needs more than just green economy: Ecuador minister Sustainable development in Ecuador should consider climate-change mitigation measures and capacity building of local communities in addition to a green economy, the Ecuador deputy environment minister told CIFOR.
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BluForest Inc. Acquires 30,000 Hectares of Forest in Ecuadorian AmazonBluForest Inc. today announced that it has acquired 30,000 hectares of native forest in the province of Esmaraldas in Ecuador.
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Ecuador says companies join novel Amazon protection fundAbout a dozen companies are contributing to a novel conservation plan that pays Ecuador to protect part of the Amazon rainforest in return for barring oil drilling, the head of the initiative said on Friday.
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REDD+ related risks, opportunities and safeguards for biodiversity conservation – a survey of issues and options in Lao PDR and Ecuador Intact ecosystems – particularly forests – contain significant amounts of carbon.
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Ecuadorian tribe gets reprieve from oil intrusionAn indigenous community in the Ecuadorian Amazon has won a reprieve after building up an arsenal of spears, blowpipes, machetes and guns to fend off an expected intrusion by the army and a state-run oil
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Can oil save the rainforest?American biologist Kelly Swing thwacks a bush with his butterfly net and a dozen or so bugs and insects drop in.
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Ecuador treads fine line in preserving Amazon reserveEcuador's plan to refrain from drilling for oil in its rainforests in return for money remains controversial. Critics have questioned the tangible benefits of the project for the forest and its residents.
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The Yasuni Project: Protecting the rainforests and fighting climate changeTHE GREEN Party is excited to announce a special session “The Yasuni Project” at its spring conference; a fringe event hosted by Dr. Derek Wall in conjunction with the Ecuadorian Embassy.
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Yasuni: Ecuador abandons plan to stave off Amazon drilling
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Oil drilling in Yasuni creates tension between Germany and EcuadorAfter Ecuador announced it would drill for oil in its pristine Yasuni National Park while blaming international donors for failed conservation efforts, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa has now canceled German aid.
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Why Ecuador's president is misleading the world on Yasuni-ITT
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