15 years 7 months ago
The seventh session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP 7) has been finished...
As expected, a lot of interesting things happend:
South Africa speaking on behalf of China and the Group of 77 nations damanded to cancel any climate change talks on land use, land use change and forestry for industrialized countries (read more here)
"The bar" was formally presented by the EU, Tuvalu and Canada made their points
Some climate activism took place e.g. the EU got's "The fossil of the day" for proposing the idea of "The bar"
The...
15 years 8 months ago
Parties have submitted their views on further LULUCF treatment!
Die ersten Länder haben ihre Stellungnahmen zur zukünftigen Behandlung des LULUCF Sektors abgegeben!
You can find the text here/Der Text (in Englisch)
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There is also a draft for the negotiations by the chair (see p.6, 14-15)/der Vorsitz hat auch einen Textvorschlag für die kommenden Verhandlungen formuliert
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Some remarkable statements submitted within this first round:
Switzerland
"As an option, accounting for HWPs could begin on a voluntary basis, assuming accounting...
15 years 9 months ago
Es wird ernst: Am 15. Februar 2009 war Abgabetermin für die ersten normalen Stellungnahmen der Staaten zum Nachfolgeprotokoll von LULUCF. Der Bereich LULUCF wird und wurde in der AWG-KP viel diskutiert – österreichische Beiträge dazu findet man allerdings nur sporadisch. Somit ist klar, dass jetzt etwas geschehen muss – spätestens bis Mitte 2009 sollten die Länder wissen, was auf sie zukommt und welche Optionen für sie die besten sind.
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Bisher hat sich in Österreich wenig getan, die Informationen zu diesem Thema fließen spärlich, wenn überhaupt. Einzig in der...
15 years 9 months ago
Why isn't EU selling FLEGT as such as it is?
Nowadays most of EU's programs is
fighting climate change or/and
combating the world economic crises
This knows no halt, not even for initiatives like fighting illegal logging - FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) in short.
The idea of FLEGT was born a couple of years ago by the European Commission when starting to listen to the moaning of specific G-NGO’s. The thoughts standing behind FLEGT might have been quite chivalrously and honest.
But there was politics behind from the very first. Otherwise how could it happen to name...
15 years 10 months ago
September 2012 - a note by the Editor of ForestIndustries.EU: We wrote this article more than three years ago. Many significant events happened since then and a huge amount of new knowledge has been collected by the global community. But two main facts we stated back in 2010 had been proofed rock steady and all right: conservation should NOT be the main deal of any program for forests and illegal logging is NOT the main source of deforestation - recently published knowledge proves us right: Evidence-based Conservation, by Terry C.H. Sunderland (CIFOR Article here) and Agriculture Is the...