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20 May, 2012

Additional Guidance on REDD+ Safeguards Information Systems

To obtain results-based finance for REDD+, developing country Parties should have in place a system for providing information on how safeguards are addressed and respected – a safeguards information system (SIS).

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21 May 2012

“Cash is king”: Forested countries must see REDD+ financial rewards

Developing countries will not be incentivised to change business -as- usual practices and invest in REDD+ schemes until there’s certainty that the financial rewards that have been used to promote the forest carbon mechanism will materialise in the future, said experts at the sidelines of the clim

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20 May, 2012

Moving REDD+ forward: more structured discussion on the drivers of deforestation is needed

Greater coordination amongst donor countries is required in order to secure environmental and social standar

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22 May 2012

Moving REDD+ forward: more structured discussion on the drivers of deforestation is needed

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May 22, 2012

Lessons Learned from Community Forestry & REDD+ in Brazil

Designing a successful REDD+ strategy is complex, in part because it deals with the intricacies of changing economic incentives and human behaviors toward forests – and toward land in general. That’s where community forestry can play an important role.

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22 May, 2012

Research questions REDD Program in Chiapas for Destroying Indigenous Identity

The program Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD Plus), driven by the UN, has been embraced by the government of Mexico since 2010, and its flagship is Chiapas where, as in other countries, the program is controversial.

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23 May 2012

Ghana: Turning the Back On Forest Revenue Loses

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May 24, 2012

Anti-Corruption Views - Why we need laws to save what's left of our forests

International efforts to protect forests and the people that live in them have failed so badly that just 20 per cent of forest remains untouched by commercial activity. It is really, really crucial that we find a global system that looks after what remains of the world’s lungs.

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21 May, 2012

Forest Management Plan proves controversial

THE state government's newly released Forest Management Plan (FMP) has proved controversial among conservation and green groups.

Conservation Council WA (CCWA) president Piers Verstegen said the government's next forest management plan will be a death sentence to endangered animals.

Issue date: 
21 May 2012

Norway SWF told to invest in land as climate change hedge

Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global should invest in agricultural land and forests as a hedge against any climate change policies that governments around the world may introduce, according to a report specially prepared by investment consultant Mercer.

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