Giving trees a value is one solution for halting deforestation, but deciding how much a forest is worth is proving challenging, reports Sara Schonhardt Jakarta, October 3 - Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, otherwise known as REDD, offers vast potential for...
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ECO Business |
13 years 9 months ago
Guyana Chronicle |
13 years 9 months ago
..asks Ambassador to lobby leaders on REDD + With Japan playing a major part in helping Guyana meet the challenges of providing safe drinking water and ensuring that the East Demerara Water Conservancy is functioning the way it should, Guyana has recognised this developmental partner...
Paper Index Times |
13 years 9 months ago
2 October 2010, London, UK - "Greenwashing"—over-promoting your "green" credentials—is one of today’s headline-grabbers. What are the facts? What’s right? What’s wrong? Who decides? Corporate Responsibility (CR) Magazine, a leading US publication, recently ran a webinar where two experts...
UN-REDD |
13 years 9 months ago
In the afternoon on day 2 of COFO over 60 delegates gathered in the German Room to discuss the national and international developments on REDD+, from current arrangements on REDD+ to financing for REDD+ activities and beyond.
Climate Justice Now |
13 years 9 months ago
Tianjin, 5 October 2010 (Meena Raman) – Developing countries called for a comprehensive set of decisions at the 16th meeting of the Conference of Parties in Cancun, Mexico in November this year that will ensure balance between the negotiating tracks under the UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol as...
FIELD |
13 years 9 months ago
October 5, 2010. FIELD has prepared a new guide on REDD-plus - its purpose is to assist developing country negotiators and others who are working on REDD-plus. FIELD provides this information on a neutral non partisan basis. The guide is available in English, French and Spanish. (English) Guide...
Business Wire |
13 years 9 months ago
AKARTA, Indonesia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Indonesia will become home of the world’s first privately funded project turning pulpwood plantation concessions into a carbon reserve. The Kampar Carbon Reserve, located in Riau Province in Sumatra, is being established on land previously...
Worldwatch |
13 years 9 months ago
From August 31 to September 3, the National Forestry Commission of Mexico and the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment held an international conference in Oaxaca, Mexico, in preparation for the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF) in 2011.
Ecosystem Marketplace |
13 years 9 months ago
Initially perceived as being one of the few bright spots in an otherwise dismal year for climate-change negotiations, the REDD+ Partnership has now cancelled a key meeting set to take place on the sidelines of upcoming biodiversity talks in Nagoya, Japan. REDD+ Partnership co-chair Junya...
Timbercommunity |
13 years 9 months ago
UPM has started testing the new Finnish FSC standard in company forests. With this testing the company wants to fully assess the costs and functionality of the indicators of the new Finnish FSC standard approved by the Finnish FSC association on 8 October, 2010. The testing covers the financial...
Timbercommunity |
13 years 9 months ago
Seattle, USA. September, 2010. Despite slower lumber export sales, sawlog prices in Sweden continued upward in the 2Q, reaching their highest levels on record in local currency. Log prices have increased faster in the southern part of the country where both sawlogs and pulpwood prices are now...
RISI |
13 years 9 months ago
LONDON, Okt. 8, 2010 (Viewpoint) - RISI will hold its second Indian seminar in Chennai on December 1, 2010, and the focus will be (as it should) on India's dynamic pulp and paper sector. However, India's rapidly growing economy and vast army of low-cost labor indicates great...
The Guardian |
13 years 9 months ago
Rich countries have been slow to launch the "fast start" climate funds promised at Copenhagen, the world's least developed nations complained today as negotiators wrestled with a finance package to keep the UN climate talks process on track.
ForestTalk |
13 years 9 months ago
The United States has requested consultation with Canada under the Softwood Lumber Agreement. At issue is the apparent unfair under-pricing of timber harvested from public lands in the Interior region of British Columbia. The U.S. feels that British Columbia is providing to softwood lumber...
Timbercommunity |
13 years 9 months ago
According to Zhang Jianlong, deputy administrator of the State Forestry Administration, China's total timber consumption will increase from 457 million cu. m in 2009 to 477 million cu. m for 2010, and the demand for timber imports for domestic consumption will grow from 100 million cu. m to 150...
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide |
13 years 9 months ago
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): A Guide for Landowners and Forest Communities in the Pacific
Amandala |
13 years 9 months ago
We’ve heard recently of the use of satellite imagery in petroleum exploration work in Belize. Local and global observation systems are now being advanced that would allow people around the globe to collect and share data, as easily as one browses the Internet.
Climate Justice Now |
13 years 9 months ago
Tianjin, October 7 (Meena Raman) – At the UNFCCC climate talks in Tianjin, a “stock-taking” meeting was held on October 6 which revealed divergent views among several Parties on what the outcome of the forthcoming Cancun conference should be and how the process should move forward from Tianjin...
Japan Finance Cooperation |
13 years 9 months ago
The REDD+ Seminar was held on July 27, 2010, jointly with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Ministry of the...
Ecosystem Marketplace |
13 years 9 months ago
4 October 2010 | Negotiators from all 194 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are meeting this week in Tianjin, China. It's the last major meeting before year-end talks in Cancun, and officially they're trying to iron out technical issues and overcome...