Greater coordination amongst donor countries is required in order to secure environmental and social standards and to monitor the readiness of host countries to move from the preparatory phase of REDD to generating actual reductions in emissions. Clear and binding environmental and social...
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Financial News |
vor 12 Jahre 6 months
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. The Nkr3.3 trillion ($550bn) fund, the...
REUTERS |
vor 12 Jahre 6 months
(REUTERS) - Negotiators aim to finish work on how to measure the CO2 content of tropical forests by the year-end U.N. meeting in Qatar. But, according to a draft U.N. document, nations will take another year to complete work on ensuring that any move to cut emissions by slowing down deforestation...
Climate Connections |
vor 12 Jahre 6 months
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.
CIFOR |
vor 12 Jahre 6 months
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...
Donnybrook Mail |
vor 12 Jahre 6 months
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. However, the...
WorldBank |
vor 12 Jahre 6 months
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.
Forest T'rends |
vor 12 Jahre 6 months
Myanmar remains one of the world’s only countries with no prohibitions on log exports. The country provides much coveted teak and other hardwood logs to the region and beyond. Sawn wood, and to a lesser extent finished wood products, contribute a relatively small amount to Myanmar’s total exports...
REDD-Earth |
vor 12 Jahre 6 months
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. The article critically examines the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF)’s involvement in both...
The REDD Desk |
vor 12 Jahre 6 months
This document is part of the publications series produced by the Forest and Climate Change Programme of FAO.
IFG |
vor 12 Jahre 6 months
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) to...
The Sun Daily |
vor 12 Jahre 7 months
The government plans to allocate RM3 billion for expansion of forest plantations in the country to achieve an area covering 375,000 hectares by 2020, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pic) said today. He said the government had so far allocated more than RM600 million for the...
UC Davis |
vor 12 Jahre 7 months
A new study from the University of California, Davis, provides a deeper understanding of the complex global impacts of deforestation on greenhouse gas emissions. The study, published May 13 in the advance online edition of the journal Nature Climate Change, reports that the volume of greenhouse...
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CIFOR |
vor 12 Jahre 7 months
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...
Irin News |
vor 12 Jahre 7 months
The world’s largest producer of teak, an Indonesian state-owned company on the island of Java, has again been awarded sustainable forest management (SFM) certification. But the company has a long and sometimes contentious relationship with forest communities in the area, and the forest rights of...
Environmental Leader |
vor 12 Jahre 7 months
There is not a single matter related to papermaking that touches each of us as personally and emotionally as forestry. Simply put, people love trees. Some people envision responsible paper manufacturer as engaging in deforestation but, in fact, our suppliers are harvesting sustainability with a...
Your-Story |
vor 12 Jahre 7 months
Forestry Research Associates (FRA) has stated that the signing of a sustainable forestry agreement between China, the Republic of Korea and Japan is an "extremely positive move” in the fight against desertification and deforestation. The three nations met at the Fifth Trilateral Summit Meeting over...
Hardwood Flooring |
vor 12 Jahre 7 months
The Tropical Forest Foundation (TFF) recently launched a 60-day fundraising campaign to establish a Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) training center in the Peruvian Amazon. TFF will work with communities and government officials to teach SFM practices to harvesting companies in order to...
StateImpact |
vor 12 Jahre 7 months
Woe is the eco-conscious consumer. Just when they think they’re buying green, something screws it all up. The latest group allegedly mucking things up is the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), which is losing corporate sponsors amid allegations of “green-washing.”
NBC Bay Area |
vor 12 Jahre 7 months
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. Now, NBC Bay Area's Investigative...