Forestry

PLANTING of more than 10,000 hectares of mallee eucalypt trees is now underway as part of one fo the largest carbon forestry projects in Australia.

Bonn,  22  May  (Hilary  Chiew)  –  Parties  differed  in their  views  on  the  use  of  private  finance  for  forest-related  activities  at  the  spin-off  group  under the Ad Hoc  Working  Group  on  Long  term  Cooperative Action under the Framework Convention on Climate Change  (AWG-LCA) 

Earlier this month, political ecologists Betsy Beymer-Farris and Thomas Bassett published “The REDD Menace: Resurgent Protectionism in Tanzania’s Mangrove Forests” in the journal Global Environmental Change.

Despite recent research that has closely linked climate change and water scarcity with a rapidly rising deforestation rates, the international climate community still mainly thinks of forests in terms of their carbon storage potential rather than the critical role they play in regulating rainfall

California's new Cap and Trade program has been hailed as the gold standard in environmental law for the entire world. Not only are other states looking to the law but other countries, too, are watching to judge its effects on the global economy and environment.