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Reducing CO2: Vietnam stands at the forefrontVietNamNet Bridge – On the occasion of an international conference on “Payments for Environmental Services and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” (REDD)
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Vietnam Implementing Nationwide Payments for Forest Ecosystem ServicesThe government of Vietnam has spent two years piloting regional schemes that use economic incentives to preserve forests by getting businesses that benefit from them to pay people who preserve them. Now it’s taking the scheme nationwide.
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Fighting deforestation in Lam Dong22/09/2010 // Vietnam is about to enter a second phase in its efforts of reducing green house gas
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Workshop on Finn funded Deforestation and Forest Degradation research A workshop to discuss a report aiming for technical assistance in the Development of the National REDD programme (United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries) for Vietnam was organised at the
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Asian Development Bank grants $69m for forest protection projectMANILA — The Asian Development Bank last week approved loans and grants worth US$69 million to Cambodia, Laos, and Viet Nam for a community-based initiative to protect more than 1.9 million ha of threatened forests where 170,000 mostly poor people live.
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Forest protection scheme benefits 10,000 highland families
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UN provides $2.7m to manage forests
HA NOI — The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) signed an agreement with the Vietnamese Government yesterday, committing itself to a technical assistance partnership to develop the country's capacity in forest resources assessment.
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Vietnam: Preventing corruption in the forestry sector
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Community forestry plan unveiled
The Forestry Administration yesterday launched a new US$3.8 million project to conserve forests in four provinces in the Cardamom region through sustainable community forestry.
Kampong Speu, Kampong Chhnang, Pursat and Battambang provinces have been targeted because they contain forests with “globally significant biodiversity … and at the same time act as major carbon reserves”, yet face threats from logging and land concessions, according to an official summary of the project plan.
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Habitat cleared in carbon sink forest
A forest in Oddar Meanchey province is facing environmental “disaster” after thousands of people destroyed up to 1,000 hectares of natural habitat, putting revenues from a carbon credit scheme worth tens of millions of dollars at risk.
Proceeds from a United Nations-backed Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation scheme are said to be in danger after waves of settlers destroyed parts of the forest in Samroang district, chief of the Romdoul Veasna community forest programme, Malis Hoeuth, said yesterday.
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New road now path to forest destruction HCM CITY — A road completed four years ago has lured farmers who have cleared hundreds of hectares of evergreen forest in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong's Lac Duong District.
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This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the wood flows from smallholder plantations to industrial buyers in the Binh Dinh and Phu Tho provinces of Vietnam.
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Two new REDD projects in Vietnam to be launched soonTwo more REDD projects are to be launched in Vietnam after the successful completion of examination phase of a REDD project in the National Park Bach Ma, Vietnam.
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VIETNAMESE ARMY NAMED AS TIMBER SMUGGLERBANGKOK: A new report released today (July 28, 2011) exposes the pivotal role played by the Vietnamese military in a multi-million dollar operation which is smuggling threatened timber over the border from the shrinking forests of neighbouring Laos.
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Illegal logging: from the rainforest to your dining roomBANGKOK, Thailand — Is your coffee table stamped “Made in Vietnam”?
If so, there’s a decent chance it was once a tree in the dwindling jungles of Laos, sawn down illegally by a timber syndicate and smuggled into Vietnam for processing.
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PM earmarks $30m for forestry sectorHA NOI — Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved an additional US$30 million to develop the forestry sector. The funds, from the World Bank's International Development Association, bring the total received to $99.8 million.
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Comments on Viet Nam's timber legality definition VPA/FLEGT
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Timber traffickers targeted by forest management body HA NOI — The forest management sector is planning stricter measures to fight timber trafficking following a recent spate of illegal activities.
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Laos & Vietnam: The real chainsaw massacreA new documentary film follows investigators from the Environmental Investigation Agency on a dangerous mission to uncover the stages of the illicit timber trade in Vietnam and Laos.
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IDLO Publishes Reports on Legal Preparedness for REDD+ in Mexico, Vietnam and ZambiaTo advance legal knowledge and action for REDD+ development and climate change mitigation, IDLO, in collaboration with the UN-REDD Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), prepared country studies on Legal Preparedness for REDD+.
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Illegal road fosters illicit logging in Quang NgaiA recent investigation into illegal logging in Hamlet No. 3, Tra Ka Commune in Bac Tra My found that road had been constructed over the course of a year.
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Preparedness for REDD+ Climate Finance - Vietnam, Mexico & ZambiaReducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, including conservation, forest management and enhanced carbon stocks (REDD+), is an evolving international climate finance mechanism that may provide considerable sustainable development opportunities for developing countries.
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Ministry, German firm team up for biodiversity conservationMinistry of Natural Resources and Environment and the German consulting company GITEC Consult GmbH have agreed to partner in biodiversity conservation in southern Laos under a project set to run until 2018.
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Na Hang special-use forest unavoidable of illegal lumberjacks?The Na Hang special-use forest, the land of many kinds of rare and precious trees which are hundreds of years old, have been in serious danger.
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Certifying Vietnam’s timber plantations would help smallholders profit from lucrative export marketf Vietnam wants its timber producers to benefit from the growing eco-conscious and more lucrative international furniture market, national forest institutions should look for ways to get smallholder plantation forests certified, said Louis Putzel, a senior scientist at the Center for Internationa
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