International Day for Biological Diversity is celebrated worldwide on May 22 to further our understanding of biodiversity issues. This year, the International Day for Biological Diversity highlights ‘Forest Biodiversity’ to complement the International Year of Forests 2011, declared by the UN...
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My Republica |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
European Parliament adopts report on the Commission Green Paper on Forest Protection and Information
The European Parliament (EP) adopted (at its sitting on 11 May 2011) the Report on the Commission Green Paper on forest protection and information in the EU - preparing forests for climate change . The report was drafted by Kriton Arsenis (Greece, Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists...
Mongabay |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
The co-founder of an initiative that discourages illegal logging by bringing affordable, high quality health care to impoverished communities in Indonesian Borneo has been recognized with a prestigious conservation award. Dr. Hotlin Ompusunggu, co-founder of Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI), was this...
Climate Connect |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
New Delhi, 20 May 2011: India could soon have its first project registered under the UN's mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD). A pilot project in the East Khasi Hills in Meghalaya being run jointly by a California-based non-profit organization and a local...
Anti-Corruption Centre |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
TIME |
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Times Live |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
Liberia has signed a deal with the European Union promising to crack down on illegal logging on its territory, home to more than half of West Africa’s rainforests, a group linked to the accord said. Ghana, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo signed similar deals last year ahead of an...
Transparency International |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
Down to Earth |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
Can you love tigers but hate forests? This is the question that troubled me as I visited the middle of India last fortnight. I was in Nagpur, where local politicians, conservationists and officials were discussing what needed to be done in this chronically poor and backward region endowed with...
Guyana Chronicle |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
AS Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy moves beyond its start-up phase, the government is leading efforts to advance work on the six priority investments for this year. The six investments will accelerate Guyana’s transition to a low carbon economy by deploying the US$70M earned by Guyana...
CIFOR |
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Forest Talk |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
Environmental groups and forest products companies that signed the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA) say significant strides have been made in the past year to turn the landmark agreement into concrete steps to make change on the ground that will protect the Boreal Forest and the people who...
Forest Talk |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
Ontario passed its Ontario Forest Tenure Modernization Act (Bill 151) in its legislature today. The Act changes the forest tenure system and provides a more competitive market environment in the allocation and pricing of Crown timber. Under the new system, Ontario will introduce two new...
CIFOR |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
BOGOR, Indonesia (11 May, 2011)_A CIFOR-led project is yielding innovative tools that help rural people improve their livelihoods and protect their natural resources. In recent years, the Lao PDR government has championed participatory land use planning (known by its abbreviation PLUP). This...
Mongabay |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
A debate over the need to conserve forests versus converting them for industrial use grew heated last week at Australian National University (ANU). A forum brought together policy experts, scientists, and a forestry lobbyist to discuss Australia's role in overseas forestry. But an exchange...
Climate-I |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
May 2011: The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has released a number of publications relevant to REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, as well as conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon...
Times of India |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
NEW DELHI: In order to lock climate changing carbon dioxide in the growing forests, the government has asked the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to provide a substantial part of the Rs 90 billion needed every year for 10 years.
RABBLE |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
It is a pretty well accepted truth that "He who ignores history is doomed to repeat it." Commenting on the economic trends in Italy, where he was American ambassador, George Perkins Marsh wrote something in 1864 that would be current and accurate if it was printed in a major newspaper today...
IEWY |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
From 9-13 May 2011, the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDC) will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. The European Commission will be represented by European Commission President, Jose Manuel Barroso, Development Commissioner, Andris Piebalgs and Trade...
IIED |
vor 14 Jahre 3 months
Every month we highlight a new, groundbreaking or bestselling IIED research outcome. This month we feature a ground breaking IIED publication Tenure in REDD: Start-point or afterthought? As new mechanisms for 'reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation' (REDD) are being...