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Call Issued for Civil Society Organization Observers to the CIFs

October 2011: The organization RESOLVE has published a call for applications for non-profit Civil Society Organization (CSO) Observers to the Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), to serve for a two-year term, beginning in January 2012.

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September 2011

Workshop Proceedings “Linking community monitoring with national MRV for REDD+”

More than 65 participants from 15 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America shared their experiences and work on MRV during a workshop entitled, “Linking community monitoring with national Monitoring Reporting and Verification for REDD” held in Mexico last month, from 12-14 September 2011.

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26 October 2011

Forests can feed world’s hungry and over-exploitation for timber must be curbed – UN

26 October 2011 – Forests can play an even greater role in feeding the world with products ranging from vitamin-rich leaves to fruits and roots, a United Nations-backed international consortium said today, calling on governments to invest more in sustainable forest

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27 October 2011

Now That the Nation Has Got REDD Alert, What Next?

It is definitely celebration time for environment stakeholders especially the Federal Ministry of Environment now that Nigeria has been granted the green light to benefit from the $4 million (N600 million using official rate) from the United Nations (UN) Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and

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Oct 26, 2011

ERA Holds Annual AGM and Provides Corporate Update on Operations

Oct 26, 2011 VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA ,MARKETWIRE

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Thu, 27 Oct 2011

Timber fees to go up

Ghana's Forestry  Commission (FC) has revealed that a Review  Committee is being set up for upward review of the country's Timber Rights Fee (TRF), popularly known as timber fees meant for the state.  Since 2005, the commission has not revised the TRF, necessitating the review.

TRF is rent that timber companies pay for their concessions annually. When the TRF is reviewed upwards, more revenue will be earned from the numerous timber companies operating in Ghana.

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Oct 28, 2011

New version of Pan-European Forest Map available

Earth Observation data are regarded as a cost-efficient means for locating different types of vegetation cover at the ground level. Two different earth-observation products (Kempeneers et al. 2011 and Schuck et al. 2002 / Päivinen et al.

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Oct 28, 2011

Climate Conversations - Green the economy to check environmental degradation

In Pakistan, environmental degradation is both a cause and consequence of different socio-economic problems including deepening poverty, declining performance of different crops and worsening problems with human and crop diseases.

Dr. Peter Kolb discusses Sustainable Forestry, German-style

How German the sustainable forest management (SFM) system is recognized by the US - spend the time to watch - and have a lough!

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October 18, 2011

Forests to tree farms

We are losing our natural forests to tree plantations yet on paper, all is well because these plantations are considered ‘forests’.

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