Keen to guard its ranking as Asia's happiest country, Bhutan has hosted a climate summit and an international symposium accompanied by an exhibition in the Kingdom's capital Thimphu – far away from the hustle and bustle of world's metropolitan cities – in run-up to a landmark UN conference in...
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INDepth News |
14 years 6 months ago
The ecologist |
14 years 6 months ago
Back in 2009 it was heralded as a potential model for REDD+ and reducing rates of deforestation but Norway's deal with Guyana appears to have made little progress
Garden News |
14 years 6 months ago
WASHINGTON, – U.S. Forest Service scientists contributed to a far-reaching report that will help land managers make decisions about how forests are best managed to help offset carbon emissions, including the use of forest biomass for energy.
360 Yale |
14 years 6 months ago
More than half of the timber now shipped globally is destined for China. But unscrupulous Chinese companies are importing huge amounts of illegally harvested wood, prompting conservation groups to step up boycotts against rapacious timber interests. by william laurance - 360.yale.edu In Chinese...
PhysORG |
14 years 6 months ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- Reduced-impact logging (RIL) in an Amazon rainforest generated profits while emitting a small fraction of carbon compared with total forest clearing, a University at Albany study concludes.
Business Week |
14 years 6 months ago
Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia is planning to spend $150 billion over two decades on economic development, including investments to lower the country’s carbon emissions, according to a government document. “There is a convergence of what the economy needs in terms of growth and what is also best...
IPS News |
14 years 6 months ago
GODAVARI, Nepal, Nov 21, 2011 (IPS) - Nepal’s joint forest management system has taken such deep roots that the country’s prolonged political instability has had little effect on it. "We’re doing well anyway," Ganesh Bahadur Silwal, 65, general secretary of the Godavari community forestry group,...
The Jakarta Globe |
14 years 6 months ago
Kubu Raya, West Kalimantan. With millions of hectares of forests being cleared each year to make way for palm-oil plantations, even illegal loggers are now starting to see the impact of dwindling rainforests in Indonesia. Unlike previous years when illegal loggers were spotted with top quality...
Bernama News |
14 years 6 months ago
Malaysia and the European Union (EU) have made progress in talks on the Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), said Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, Tan Sri Bernard Giluk Dompok. However, he said, the different forestry laws in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak, needed to be...
REDD Net |
14 years 6 months ago
daptation is of high priority in many developing countries where the impacts of climate change are already being felt. REDD+ is a mitigation opportunity for many developing countries, however for the benefits to be maximised it should be designed in a way that meets national development objectives...
ALLAfrica |
14 years 6 months ago
In the coming year, pilot countries of the Climate Investment Fund's (CIF) "Forest Investment Program" (FIP), including Burkina Faso, Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo, can expect to see additional support for their REDD+ activities in the form of a Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Indigenous...
SCOOP |
14 years 6 months ago
New Report Reveals World Bank Forestry Scheme Ignored Deforestation Emissions Data Donor Aid Money Being Misused
Yahoo news |
14 years 6 months ago
Macedonians were given a day off work Wednesday to plant almost six million trees as part of government efforts to revive forests and increase ecological awareness in the Balkan country. Thousands of people braved rain and fog on the special public holiday to plant around 5.7 million trees at some...
CO2 Science |
14 years 6 months ago
Reference Zhou, L., Dai, L., Wang, S., Huang, X., Wang, X., Qi, L., Wang, Q., Li, G., Wei, Y. and Shao, G. 2011. Changes in carbon density for three old-growth forests on Changbai Mountain, Northeast China: 1981-2010. Annals of Forest Science 68: 953-958.
Vanguard |
14 years 6 months ago
The prospect of gaining carbon credits by acquiring land to implement reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation REDD+ has caught the eye of the private sector. This view was canvassed by Isilda Nhantunbo, a senior researcher in the International Institute for Environment and...
AlterNet |
14 years 6 months ago
The question in Bolivia and all over the Global South is whether forests should be protected, for a price, and who gets a share of that money.
Timber Online |
14 years 6 months ago
A long-running violent dispute between the world’s largest teak producer and Indonesian forest communities has been resolved, resulting in the recertification of two Indonesian forest districts by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).
Vietnam Forestry |
14 years 6 months ago
We would highly appreciate it if the contributions could be documented and sent to MARD at Tong cuc Lam nghiep, No. 2 Ngoc Ha, Ha Noi; fax 38438793 or email to nguyenminhthuong.vnforest@gmail.com by 1 December 2011.
NewsWire |
14 years 6 months ago
The Trees of Knowledge™ program is back for 2012 and will award one eco-conscious school a complete, customized outdoor classroom, valued at $20,000.
REDD Net |
14 years 6 months ago
In East Africa REDD+ has the potential to contribute to national adaptation objectives, however if uncoordinated, it also has the potential to increase vulnerability in key sectors such as agriculture, energy and water resource management. This paper outlines the linkages between REDD+ and...