National deforestation workshop in Cameroon looks beyond the forest While it is clear that deforestation is an important source of global carbon emissions, the potential role that agricultural mosaics at the forest margin could play, to help reduce pressure on the forest, store carbon and create benefits for local people is gaining evidence Scientists and fo
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Cameroon Timber Tax Shows Problems Distributing REDD Payments To LocalsA new study finds a lack of transparency and corruption are reducing the impact of an initiative in Cameroon that channels a portion of national timber levies to rural forest communities. The study highlights the challenges of using a climate change pact to do something similar in forested regions around the world.
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The Context of REDD+ in Cameroon
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Progress with formal REDD-plus planning in Cameroon
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Corruption threatens to destroy Cameroon’s domestic timber industry
AOUNDE, Cameroon (18 April, 2011)_The trade in illegally harvested timber provides a living for more than 45,000 people, a major source of income for corrupt officials and not a cent for the state. Follow this 5-part series as I explore Cameroon’s hidden harvest.
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Time for reform of Cameroon’s domestic timber sector
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (23 April, 2011)_The trade in illegally harvested timber provides a living for more than 45,000 people, a major source of income for corrupt officials and not a cent for the state. Follow this 5-part series as I explore Cameroon’s hidden harvest.
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To adapt, to mitigate or both alike? Congo Basin forests in a policy dilemma
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (24 May, 2011)_Bringing together researchers, policymakers, civil society and practitioners on development issues is quite challenging. Particularly more challenging is policy response towards climate change adaptation and mitigation in Congo Basin forests.
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Global Green Carbon Announces First REDD+ Project in CameroonGlobal Green Carbon Corporation ("Global Green Carbon", "GGC" or the "Company") and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Tropical Research (CTR) consortium announced today that it has received formal Letters of Approval from the Cameroon government to advance feasibility assess
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Cameroon government cracks down on illegal loggingThe government of Cameroon has intensified a crackdown on illegal loggers in a measure aimed at conserving the country’s forest resources and combating the effects of climate change.
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MINEPAT Evaluates Japan Funded Programme on Forest Governance
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Counting carbon: Measuring carbon stocks in logging concessions in Cameroon Deep inside a logging concession in southern Cameroon, scientists from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) are measuring the carbon content of a huge tree, selectively felled by a timber company.
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Logging concessions and local livelihoods in Cameroon Sustainable forest management gives the opportunity to better integrate the way local populations use thei
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