REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) aims to reward or compensate tropical developing countries for keeping their forests intact or for reducing the scale of deforestation.
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Bretton Woods Project |
vor 13 Jahre 4 months
While steaming ahead with new carbon market initiatives, the World Bank attracted further criticism and suffered potential setbacks on agriculture and on the Green Climate Fund (GCF) at the UN climate negotiations in Durban.
BC New Democrats |
vor 13 Jahre 4 months
The Forest Practices Board has confirmed that former forest minister Pat Bell has been grossly understating the true problems facing B.C.’s forests. New Democrat forest critic Norm Macdonald said Bell needs to explain why his estimate of crown lands that have not been adequately replanted was less...
AllAfrica |
vor 13 Jahre 4 months
ANNUALLY, the country loses an estimated 400,000 hectares of forest cover to logging mainly for energy, and timber used in construction and furniture making. "If we empower communities with skills to protect forests, we will stop deforestation and poverty escalation," said Dr Felician Kilahama,...
South Asia One World |
vor 13 Jahre 4 months
In its latest report, the Indian government has attributed the declining forest cover in India to forest clearance by Maoist guerrillas. The statistics, however, say the contrary.
Environmental Finance |
vor 13 Jahre 4 months
Global Environment Fund (GEF) has raised $160 million into its Africa Sustainable Forestry Fund, exceeding its target of $150 million. The Maryland-based fund manager claims the fund is the first private equity fund to focus solely on sustainable forestry in sub-Saharan Africa. Its strategy is to...
Forestry Nepal |
vor 13 Jahre 4 months
The Multi-Stakeholder Forestry Programme is the product of the first multistakeholder design process to be undertaken in Nepal’s forestry sector. The Programme will build on the achievements of over 20 years of forestry work of the Government of Nepal supported by the UK, Switzerland and Finland....
ZEENews |
vor 13 Jahre 4 months
New Delhi: In what could bring cheers to environmentalists, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said the country's forest cover has increased by nearly five per cent between 1997 and 2007. "I am happy to state that India's forest cover had increased by nearly 5 percent between 1997 and 2007 with a...
PaperIndex Times |
vor 13 Jahre 4 months
Following the results of 2011, Ilim Group was acknowledged as the leader of forest management certification. The respective Proof of Leadership was awarded to Ilim Group by the Russian Branch of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Therefore Ilim Group has proved once again its leadership in...
The EasAfrican |
vor 13 Jahre 4 months
A new insurance product has been launched to cover private equity fund investments in Africa and other emerging markets against political risk. The political risk insurance has been developed by Overseas Private Investment Company (OPIC), the US government’s development finance institution. It...
GlobalPost |
vor 13 Jahre 4 months
International negotiators are closing in on a new solution for combating climate change — and saving the world’s remaining forests. Some 20 percent of all greenhouse-gas emissions now come from deforestation, especially in the lush, green band of tropical rainforest that circles the earth. That is...
The Star |
vor 13 Jahre 4 months
Malaysia is believed to have lost between RM800mil and RM900mil a year to illegal logging, said Transparency International-Malaysia (TI-M) president Datuk Paul Low. Saying this was the estimated worth of illegal logs going out of the country, Low added that he believed illegal logging was still “...
Radio Australia |
vor 13 Jahre 4 months
One of the world's leading tropical biologists says clear felling of forests on Papua New Guinea's controversial Special Agricultural and Business leases is likely to have profound impact on PNG's environment. As you heard earlier in the program, logging on SABLs has pushed PNG's log exports into...
New York Times Opinion |
vor 13 Jahre 4 months
Early next month, the Obama administration will finalize important and long overdue rules for the management of 155 national forests covering nearly 200 million acres. The rules will guide individual forest managers as they decide which parts of the forest can safely be opened to logging, mining...
AllAfrica |
vor 13 Jahre 4 months
ONE of the country's largest natural forest reserve, Masito-Ugalla in Kigoma rural district which is threatened by charcoal and timber traders exporting to neighbouring countries, is not legally protected and now Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism is seeking to gazette it.
EcoBusiness |
vor 13 Jahre 4 months
Policymakers looking to reduce deforestation in their countries have the right tools to do so today, but without a solid foundation in good governance and consistent policies, they will not be successful, said a prominent policy expert.
USDA |
vor 13 Jahre 4 months
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today signaled the U.S.
UPI |
vor 13 Jahre 5 months
Timber production in the world's tropical countries is exceeding the forests' ability to replace the felled trees, an Australian report says. Researchers at Australian National University and James Cook University said the standard cutting cycle of 30-40 years is too short to allow trees to grow to...
CIFOR |
vor 13 Jahre 5 months
Indigenous and community groups have made a wish-list detailing how schemes that aim to reduce deforestation and forest degradation should work for those living in and amongst the forest.
Bloomberg |
vor 13 Jahre 5 months
Global Environment Fund, a U.S. private-equity firm with $1 billion under management, completed the closing of a $160 million fund for sustainable forestry in sub-Saharan Africa. The GEF Africa Sustainable Forestry Fund, ahead of its $150 million target, will invest $15-$30 million in existing and...