Wellington, June 25 NZPA - Agriculture Minister David Carter has promised the nation's farmers that they will not be made accountable for the greenhouse gas emissions through the Government's emissions trading scheme (ETS), unless trading partners are also feeling some of the financial pain...
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Guide to New Zealand |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
Daily Independent |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
Discouraged by the outcome of the Copenhagen climate summit last December as well as how negotiations at the just concluded talks in Bonn in Germany seem to have turned out, developing nations made up of mainly those from Africa are now looking inwards as a way out of the dilemma.
Times of India |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
Vietnam Net |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
VietNamNet Bridge – On the occasion of an international conference on “Payments for Environmental Services and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” (REDD) in Hanoi from June 23-24, VietNamNet would like to introduce an article by Charlotte Streck, a renowned...
Sci Dev |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
[NAIROBI] Kenya has announced plans to establish a regional carbon emissions trading scheme to steer Africa's carbon market. This would hopefully position the country as the continent's carbon credit trade hub, finance minister Uhuru Kenyatta said in his budget speech to parliament earlier this...
New Zealand Herald |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
New Zealand's failure to cut greenhouse gas emissions has left taxpayers staring down the barrel of a Kyoto Protocol liability of at least $1 billion and possibly more than $5 billion, according to a book analysing National's emissions trading system.
Gisborne Herald |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
NEW Zealand’s emissions trading scheme gives this region opportunities to make money, and will change the way marginal land is used. Carbon sequestering will change the way forests are managed and will make the establishment of unharvestable forests economically viable, two carbon farming...
National Forestry Authority |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
A global program, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) is starting in Uganda. Derived from the 2007 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, REDD seeks to address climate change through reversing rapid depletion of the world’s forest resources.
New York Times |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
UNITED NATIONS -- A broad coalition of activists are charging that as much as a third of all Kyoto Protocol carbon offset credits ever sold to banks and governments could be illegitimate because they were generated by firms manipulating the marketplace.
CMI |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
The Norwegian Government launched its International Climate and Forest Initiative in December 2007, pledging up to 3 billion Norwegian kroner per year to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD).
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
A comprehensive survey of the UN-REDD programme (JUNE 2010) can be found here...
GRIST |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
As we know, one of the few beneficial side effects of the Great Recession of 2009 was the decline in global greenhouse gas emissions as our consumer-centric economy sputtered. But that also sent the voluntary carbon markets into a tailspin, according to a new report released Tuesday by...
The Jakarta Post |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
Since its announcement of the two-year moratorium on the conservation of natural forests in the recent forest and climate summit in Oslo, the eyes of the world are on Indonesia. Also from the Netherlands, we follow with great interest the recent developments regarding sustainable forest...
Government of Norway |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
Since the new partnership on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation between Norway and Indonesia was signed last Thursday, the Royal Norwegian Embassy has received a number of questions on how the partnership will work and why Norway chose to work with Indonesia. Read the...
Probe International |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
As rich countries continue with plans to pour money into forestry programs in the developing world as a way to combat climate change they should heed warnings that the programs will fail to reduce carbon emissions, strip local citizens of their ownership rights, and be ridden with fraud and...
Science Codex |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
Fire occurrence rates in the Amazon have increased in 59% of areas with reduced deforestation and risks cancelling part of the carbon savings achieved by UN measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and degradation.
BBC News |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
Some rich countries are seeking new rules under the UN climate convention that campaigners say would allow them to gain credit for "business as usual". Russia, Australia, Canada and some EU countries are among the accused. The rules relate to land-use change, which can either release or absorb...
All Africa |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
The Federal Government has underscored the need for the industrial nations to support the developing nations to fast track the pace of activities to reduce carbon emissions through deforestation and forest degradation. Minister of Environment John Odey made this emphasis in Oslo while addressing...
The National Business Review |
vor 14 Jahre 6 months
A dairy farmer planning on growing manuka scrub says Federated Farmers lobbyists are mounting a vocal campaign against the farmer accountability for greenhouse gases, but failing to back landowners who want to "farm" carbon credits. There is a solid business case to be made for converting hill-...