The REDD scheme of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is a carbon-based compensation for projects that resulted in reducing carbon emissions or enhancing carbon sinks or both in tropical forests. However, estimating such emissions and sinks remains challenging, and thus...
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Estimating Reference Emission Level and Project Emission Level for REDD Projects in Tropical Forests
Forest Talk |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
Remember the plan to burn wood in Port Hawkesbury to create power for Nova Scotia Power? You may have been thinking that plan was dead now that the NewPage mill is being idled, but you may be wrong. Nova Scotia Power included a clause in the original agreement specifying that if NewPage goes out of...
PaperIndex Times |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
Finland, Sep 6, 2011 - Metsä-Botnia, part of Metsäliitto Group, is participating in a feasibility study with energy companies Gasum and Helsingin Energia into constructing a biorefinery for biogas production in Joutseno, southeastern Finland. If realised, the biorefinery would produce biogas from...
PaperIndex Times |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
Finland, Sep 5, 2011 - Pöyry has released an index for analyzing the environmental sustainability of pulp and paper mills. "In many companies sustainability is connected to the company principles and needs to be communicated to various stakeholders. Currently there are no standards available that...
YALE |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
Industrial palm oil production is coming to Africa, its ancestral home. The world’s most productive oil seed has been a boon to Asian economies, but the looming arrival of large-scale plantations in Africa is raising fears that some of the same issues plaguing Malaysia, Indonesia, and other leading...
Forest Carbon Asia |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
The world has eagerly watched as Indonesia pilots public and private investments to curb the country’s massive forest losses while still meeting economic development goals. But conflicting interests between the nation’s leadership turned ugly last month when a leading forest conservation project...
UTICAOD |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
HAMILTON — As part of its aggressive push to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and advance sustainability, Colgate has signed a 15-year commitment with Patagonia Sur to purchase forestry-based carbon offsets. Under the agreement, a total of 225,000 native-species trees will be planted on 430...
MIT |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
How do you value an ecosystem? Putting a dollar value on natural systems such as forests has long beset economists. Forests provide “non-use values,” such as the pleasure of knowing that a natural system exists, and recreational values, such as hunting, fishing and wildlife viewing. But recently,...
Times of India |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
NEW DELHI: The meeting was meant to review the work done two decades after the famed Rio summit or the UN meet on Environment and Development at Rio de Janeiro in 1992. But the Rio+20 conference is turning into another global ground to put green fetters on developing economies.
EuroPolitics |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
It is urgent to act internationally to protect forests, which are guardians of the climate, protect soils and biodiversity, and play a crucial role in the water cycle, according to participants in a conference on ‘European and global forests: Which way for the future?’. The event, held on 6-7...
IIED |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
Assessing projects to reduce deforestation and forest degradation is not just about measuring how much carbon they have sequestered or enhanced. It is equally about asking what such projects have done to reduce poverty and improve people’s lives.
ForestCarbon Asia |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
First tropical Improved Forest Management project, enabling revenue generation from forest rehabilitation. Face the Future, a Dutch forest carbon project developer in cooperation with the Sabah Foundation, has registered the world’s first tropical Improved Forest Management project under the...
ALLAfrica |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
COMMUNITIES in seven villages of Kigoma Rural district will early next year start earning money for protecting Masito-Ugalla forest reserve, which climate change scientists say is helping in the absorption of carbon dioxide and controlling global warming. The villages benefit under a Reducing...
PaperIndex Times |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
EDERAL WAY, Wash., USA, Sep 13, 2011 - Weyerhaeuser Company (NYSE: WY) today announced that it has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, which tracks companies in terms of their economic, environmental and social performance. Weyerhaeuser is one of only eight building materials...
The Hindu |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
China aims to increase its forest cover to 40 million hectares over the next decade as part of its commitment to cut down its intensity of carbon emissions by 40 to 45 per cent per unit of GDP by 2020. China will continue to accelerate the pace of forestry development in line with its promise to...
ForestCarbon Asia |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
This study sees bamboo as a bridge between climate change mitigation and poverty alleviation. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) promoted issues of climate change mitigation and adaptation. The Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) presented compelling evidence and sobering projections for...
ForestCarbon Asia |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
Climate change mitigation measures may soon begin to impact trade in wood products in two important ways. There is a possibility of introduction of Border Carbon Adjustment (BCA) by some developed countries on imports from developing countries to discourage the shift of their industrial production...
ANDINA |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
Lima, Sep. 06 (ANDINA). Peru has been awarded a US$11 million grant to help the country on the initiative of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) for sustainable forest management.
China Daily |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
BEIJING - President Hu Jintao on Tuesday laid out plans that would see China increase its forest coverage by nearly 10 percent over the next decade. "China is ready to make new contributions to green and sustainable growth," Hu said at the first APEC Meeting of Ministers Responsible for Forestry,...
IPP Media |
vor 13 Jahre 2 months
Tanzania has started to implement the National Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) readiness pilot projects from which the lessons learnt will be used to inform policy makers in developing a comprehensive national REDD strategy.