Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Foreign purchases of agricultural land from Mozambique to Cambodia pose “significant risks” to the livelihoods of farmers in countries with “weak land governance,” the World Bank said in a report. Large-scale purchases raise “a real concern about the ability of local...
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Reuters Africa |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
OSLO (Reuters) - Nations including Democratic Republic of Congo are making surprise progress towards taking part in a $200 million project for slowing deforestation from late 2010, World Bank experts said. They also said Latin America, with forested nations around the Amazon, had strong...
Forest Carbon Portal |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
The Nature Conservancy and the Institute for Conservation and Sustainable Development of Amazonas (IDEs) are launching, with the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ), the Guide to REDD+ Projects in Latin America, with the aim of identifying the structure and operation of REDD projects - Reduction...
PRWeb |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
Carbon sequestration through agriculture could potentially take the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of cars off the road and provide farmers with a new revenue stream worth billions of dollars. Ann Arbor, MI (Vocus) September 7, 2010
CIFOR Blogs |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
While opinions vary about what exactly good forest governance means, participants in the Oaxaca workshop dealing with this subject agreed passionately that it is critical if REDD+ is to succeed in creating powerful new financial incentives for sustainable forest management.
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
(26 October 2010, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan)
CIFOR Blogs |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
While it is true that trees do not grow just on money but under carefully crafted governance conditions, REDD+ funding does represent an important opportunity to promote sustainable forest management. So, it is critical to know which arrangements are most conducive to effective use of funds for...
Business Standard |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
Market pricing becomes uncertain after UN probe into data laundering. Prices of carbon credit certificates on the European climate exchange have risen after the regulator disallowed credits from greenhouse gas HFC-23 from a number of projects. Credits from such projects account for around 10 per...
The Ecologist |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
The country's forests are at the centre of a new global scramble to 'buy up' carbon, but as Thembi Mutch reports, is the process really going to benefit the environment or people?
Climate Progress |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
The WSJ pushed a new meme in its editorial, “Climate of Uncertainty: Global warming science is still evolving; will future IPCC reports reflect that?“ Ironically, if the WSJ actually followed the scientific literature, rather than the disinformation campaign’s twisted version of it, they...
Climate Focus |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
Climate Focus is helping Kenya become one of the first developing nations in Africa to receive REDD+ financing to conserve and restore its forests. Kenya is one of the countries in Africa hit hardest by deforestation. Agriculture and public or private development projects have taken a heavy...
New Scientist |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
Rainforests may store much less carbon than we thought. It could be time to dramatically revise our estimates following the discovery that apparently similar forests hold vastly different amounts of the stuff.
Environmental Expert |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
In July, the Ford Foundation announced a five-year, US$85 million initiative to address climate change through the inclusion and empowerment of rural and indigenous people. David Kaimowitz, the foundation's director of sustainable development, talks with Research Fellow Molly Theobald about the...
CIFOR Blogs |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
REDD+ was conceived primarily as a financial mechanism for reducing carbon emissions caused by forest destruction. So, logically the negotiations taking place under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have focused increasingly on money. And it appears that quite a...
Nopheasasaki |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
Lessons for REDD Revenues: Peru’s experiences from the Camisea project could prove instructive for REDD as the international community ramps up efforts to provide a financial compensation mechanism for developing country actions to reduce emissions from forest loss. Although funding for REDD...
Mongabay |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
Protection of forests for their carbon value through Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) schemes has been increasing in recent years. These schemes concentrate on preserving forest cover, and thus have great potential for the conservation of natural biodiversity. Some (...
Bloomberg |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
Options to buy European Union carbon permits for 2012 traded in London yesterday at a strike price of as much as 50 euros a metric ton, according to CarbonDesk Ltd. Some 1,000 lots of call options, which give the right to buy permits at a given price, traded at 50 euros ($64), 2,000 lots at 40...
Gisborne Herald |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
GISBORNE will be a net winner from the emissions trading scheme, promises Climate Change Minister Nick Smith. At a well-attended meeting last night, Dr Smith managed to tame a potentially hostile audience through judicious use of the expressions: “Good question”, “You’re absolutely right” and “...
IPS News |
vor 13 Jahre 10 months
GERÊS, Portugal, Aug 31, 2010 (IPS) - Environmentalists are alarmed: fires have destroyed close to 100,000 hectares of forest in Portugal this summer, releasing one million tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Worst of all, the forests are losing their ability to absorb carbon.