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Reduction of emission from deforestation and degradation

Issue date: 
September 26, 2011

Forest Carbon in Ghana

This report provides insight into Ghanaian statutory and case law and its potential implications for REDD+.

Issue date: 
September 14, 2011

Will REDD conserve natural forests and protect local livelihoods?

This blog was written by an intern in GBMI’s Europe office, Antoni Michael

Issue date: 
17 September 2011

Iwokrama, REDD attract CIFOR Director General to Guyana

Director General of the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Frances J. Seymour, is in Guyana to live her dream of embarking on an excursion to Iwokrama which she has for decades longed to visit.

Issue date: 
13 September 2011

LTS Safeguarding REDD+: Working Towards Robust, Efficient and Transparent Financial Governance

Global Witness has contracted LTS to identify the main risks in REDD financial flows (from both public and private sources) from international to local level, and to propose appropriate financial audit mechanisms and safeguards to mitigate these risks.

Issue date: 
13 September 2011

Finance sector favours ‘nested’ approach to REDD+

A hybrid mechanism, in which tradable credits can be issued directly to forest carbon projects, as well as to national governments, is the clear preference of the private finance sector for rewarding projects that reduce deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), according to a report from the

Issue date: 
6 May, 2011

REDDy – Set – Grow: Financial leaders call for investors-friendly forest-carbon market at UNEP FI report launch

Leading financial institutions upped the ante on their future role in mitigating climate change as they called for more effective forest-carbon regulations on the occasion of a UNEP FI report launch at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s European headquarters in London.

Issue date: 
13 September 2011

UNEP Risoe launches NAMA database

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Risoe Centre has launched the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) Pipeline and Analysis Database. The database contains all submissions from developing countries and countries with economies in transition to the UNFCCC for NAMAs.

Issue date: 
September 13, 2011

Rimba Raya debacle casts pall over Indonesian REDD

The world has eagerly watched as Indonesia pilots public and private investments to curb the country’s massive forest losses while still meeting economic development goals.  But conflicting interests between the nation’s leadership turned ugly last month when a leading forest conservation project

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September 6, 2011

The REDD Market Should Not End Up a Subprime House of Cards: Introducing a New REDD Architecture for Environmental Integrity

Issue date: 
Sep 7, 2011

Think Tank Warns About Flaws in Sustainable Forestry Scheme

The UK-based International Institute for Environment and Development has issued a warning that tropical countries participating in REDD+ schemes, whereby they get compensated for protecting their forests to limit emissions of greenhouse gases from deforestation, could fail to reap social and environmental benefits.

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