Deforestation

Issue date:

10 November, 2010

World Bank should shift carbon focus off hydro – report

The World Bank Group has been urged to curtail buying carbon credits from hydropower projects, shifting the emphasis of its carbon finance activities to areas where it can have more influence.

Issue date:

November 9th, 2010

How to spend $1m reducing climate change

Suppose you had $1 million to spend on tackling climate change. How would you spend it to get the best bang for your million bucks?

Issue date:

Nov 11, 2010

EU May Allow Carbon Credits From Forestry to Fill Gap, BNP Trader Says

The European Union may allow use of emission credits from forest protection to help fill any gap from a ban of some industrial-gas credits, a banker at BNP Paribas SA said.

Issue date:

2 November 2010

Biofuel power stations in planning pipeline

Two new power stations that use a fuel critics say contributes to the destruction of rainforest in south-east Asia may be built in the UK through subsidies added to customer bills.

Issue date:

October 27, 2010

Deforestation dominates at U.N. biodiversity meeting in Japan

Delegates from 69 countries met Tuesday in Nagoya, central Japan, on the sidelines of the ongoing U.N. biodiversity talks to discuss ways to help developing nations tackle issues of deforestation in a bid to counter greenhouse gas emissions.

Issue date:

October 21, 2010

Tokyo wants to cooperate with countries sharing the Amazon forest

"We are interested in working with Latin American countries that share the Amazon rainforest. We just started it, "said the director of the Climate Change Division, Takehiro Kano, at a press conference in Tokyo.

The Amazon, considered the lungs of the world, covers 4.1 million hectares, but is rapidly losing its trees from deforestation.

Issue date:

Oct 17, 2010

UN hails C-River’s forestry programme

The United Nations REDD Mission to Nigeria, has described the Cross River State Forestry Programme as an ambitious opposition to global warming.

REDD+: Conservation is not the deal at all!

Markus Sommerauer - Mon, 18/10/2010 - 06:15

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Issue date:

12 October 2010

Article Discusses REDD+ and Drivers of Deforestation

Linda Rosengren, UN-REDD Programme, has authored an article on the drivers of deforestation, in particular agricultural expansion, and the role of REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, as well as the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and en

Issue date:

08/10/2010

Belize’s forests vanishing!

We’ve heard recently of the use of satellite imagery in petroleum exploration work in Belize. Local and global observation systems are now being advanced that would allow people around the globe to collect and share data, as easily as one browses the Internet.

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Deforestation

World Bank should shift carbon focus off hydro – report

How to spend $1m reducing climate change

EU May Allow Carbon Credits From Forestry to Fill Gap, BNP Trader Says

Biofuel power stations in planning pipeline

Deforestation dominates at U.N. biodiversity meeting in Japan

Tokyo wants to cooperate with countries sharing the Amazon forest

UN hails C-River’s forestry programme

REDD+: Conservation is not the deal at all!

Article Discusses REDD+ and Drivers of Deforestation

Belize’s forests vanishing!

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Deforestation

World Bank should shift carbon focus off hydro – report

How to spend $1m reducing climate change

EU May Allow Carbon Credits From Forestry to Fill Gap, BNP Trader Says

Biofuel power stations in planning pipeline

Deforestation dominates at U.N. biodiversity meeting in Japan

Tokyo wants to cooperate with countries sharing the Amazon forest

UN hails C-River’s forestry programme

REDD+: Conservation is not the deal at all!

Article Discusses REDD+ and Drivers of Deforestation

Belize’s forests vanishing!

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