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What is the difference between REDD and REDD+?

Markus Sommerauer - Fri, 10/09/2010 - 19:27

Many people are questioning the difference between REDD and REDD+, here is the ultimate answer to them:

REDD stands for:

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation

REDD+ or REDD plus or REDD-plus:

extends REDD by

Sustainable forest management in the tropics – panacea of folly?

Markus Sommerauer - Sun, 25/07/2010 - 09:49

A note by the Editor of ForestIndustries.EU: We wrote this article a long time ago. Many significant events happened since then and a huge amount of new knowledge has been collected by the global community:

REDD+ for low deforestation countries: How to solve this issue?

Markus Sommerauer - Tue, 20/07/2010 - 16:16

The European Union (EU) isn't able (or willing) to get the idea of Forests issues...

Markus Sommerauer - Fri, 16/07/2010 - 12:14

October 2015: The Guardian simply ignores knowledge related to illegal logging and deforestation and furthermore isn't addressing the core problem of the EU FLEGT/EUTR/VPA initiative. Seems the just ongoing evaluation of the FLEGT/VPA/EUTR initiative will also not address the core problem and will just address the mismanagement of the process. There is still no political will to end this disingenuous campaign...

All that glistens is not REDD+

Markus Sommerauer - Tue, 13/07/2010 - 10:10

“Put the buzzwords deforestation, degradation, indigenous people and local communities, stakeholder process and carbon inventory in the terms of reference of your next forests based project and you can classify this project as a REDD+ project!”

Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity of Forests - intrinsically bound toegether and to REDD+

Markus Sommerauer - Fri, 09/07/2010 - 14:48

Recently someone sent me a special issue about Ecosystem Services of the EU DG environment

When starting to read this leaflet I began to realize the difficulties of Central European Foresters (CEF) in understanding why the rest of the (biology/ecology/forestry) world is going to have endless discussions on how to differ between biodiversity and ecosystem services when applying forest management.

LULUCF: Post Kyoto - logging loophole for dummies

Markus Sommerauer - Fri, 11/06/2010 - 18:25

June 11, 2010: The logging loophole - some thoughts about this issue:

Before you read further, just have a look here:

''This is a massive loophole. All rich countries except Switzerland are now trying to avoid the consequences of increasing the harvesting of forestry.''

June 2010: Wood still no option for UN-REDD...

Markus Sommerauer - Wed, 09/06/2010 - 18:45

What are the best performers doing differently?

Markus Sommerauer - Mon, 07/06/2010 - 18:24

RISI - Christer Idhammar - May 31, 2010:

USA, Mai. 31, 2010 (RISI) - Here a best performer is defined as an industrial plant that has achieved a high reliability and fast throughput of manufactured products and as a consequence, manufacturing costs, including maintenance costs, are low.

Results of the Oslo Climate and Forests Conference at a glance

Markus Sommerauer - Sat, 29/05/2010 - 09:31

AP - May 28 2010 - The Oslo Climate and Forest Conference as a successor of the Paris conference:

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