HA NOI — The forest management sector is planning stricter measures to fight timber trafficking following a recent spate of illegal activities. In a meeting in the capital on Tuesday, the Director of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD)’s Department of Forest Management, Nguyen...
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Uganda Radio Network |
12 years 11 months ago
Water and Environment Minister, Maria Mutagamba says she is frustrated by people she appoints to head National Forestry Authority but end up being involved in corruption scandals. Water and Environment Minister, Maria Mutagamba says she is frustrated by people she appoints to head National...
OilPrice.com |
12 years 11 months ago
A surging population in Africa seeking to provide energy for cooking needs has led to massive environmental damage, including soil degradation. Worldwide deforestation accounts for 25-30 percent of annual CO2 global emissions, the result of the burning of brushland for subsistence agriculture...
Bernama |
12 years 11 months ago
Malaysia is still able to maintain 56.4 per cent of its total land area as forested land, Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Douglas Uggah Embas said Monday. He described it as an encouraging achievement because many countries were not able to do so as their forest areas had...
WWF-Panda |
12 years 11 months ago
“The outcome on REDD safeguards is a step backwards from what was agreed in Cancun last year, which itself was far short of what could have been agreed in Copenhagen. The provisions for safeguards in forest conservation are being shredded”, says Raja Jarrah, CARE’s Senior Advisor on REDD. "This is...
Stakeholder Forum |
12 years 11 months ago
Law enforcement and anti-corruption activities are essential to successful and equitable efforts to reduce deforestation and forest degradation. REDD+ depends on the idea that governments, whether national or subnational, can create legal frameworks and plans to reduce deforestation and degradation...
Forest Carbon Asia |
12 years 11 months ago
The fifth Forest Day took place in Durban, South Africa, in parallel with the UN Durban Climate Change Conference, which convened from 28 November – 9 December 2011. Frances Seymour, Director General, CIFOR highlighted a number of achievements, including: positive feedback from participants of...
ALLAfrica |
12 years 11 months ago
Forests take up a huge amount of the continent, but are one of Africa's most misunderstood and undervalued natural resources. At a discussion on deforestation at the climate change conference, or COP 17, in Durban, delegates learned that forests account for 23 percent of Africa's land area. The...
The Africa Report |
12 years 11 months ago
Goldtooth expresses his misgivings about agriculture being included as part of the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD). Arguing that "REDD is going to be the largest legal land grab the world has ever...
SF-Gate |
12 years 11 months ago
Global Green Carbon Corporation ("Global Green Carbon", "GGC" or the "Company") and University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Tropical Research (CTR) consortium announced today that it has received formal Letters of Approval from the Cameroon government to advance feasibility...
CIFOR |
12 years 11 months ago
Latest draft texts on REDD+ that will go forward to a plenary session for approval have postponed a decision on financing to next year and watered down safeguards requirements, leaving REDD+ projects in limbo and indigenous groups unprotected.
Investors |
12 years 11 months ago
The Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Agriculture, Resources, Fisheries & Forestry has issued the findings of its inquiry into the forestry sector. It recommends that current regional forest agreements be extended and that a national strategy for the plantation timber...
Google News |
12 years 11 months ago
MAPUTO — Foreign companies are spending billions of dollars to plant forests in Mozambique, but conservationists fear the investments aren't as good for the environment as they might initially seem. Mozambique has about 400,000 square kilometres (155,000 square miles) of largely untouched forests,...
Yale |
12 years 11 months ago
Katy Clark and I studied the issue of REDD+ and its implications for indigenous rights as we evaluated a joint project currently being implemented by the Coordinator for the Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin (COICA), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Environmental Defense...
CIFOR |
12 years 11 months ago
Developed countries must commit to long-term climate financing and encourage multiple funding pathways to reassure forested countries that their “massive investment” in REDD+ will pay off.
SurfBirds |
12 years 11 months ago
As the world’s richest countries once again play brinksmanship at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, in Durban, Sierra Leone has embraced the vital role tropical forests play in preventing climate change by conserving its most important forest, locking up an estimated 13.6 million...
IPP Media |
12 years 11 months ago
Tanzania fears that failure to agree on ways to fund a scheme to protect forests at the ongoing UN climate change meeting may risk national efforts to fight deforestation. To implement the five-year pilot project, Tanzania needs about Sh153 billion ($85 million), according to details unveiled in...
Two circles |
12 years 11 months ago
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Friday said it will continue to support forestry projects in India by making focussed efforts to rejuvenate the forests and help communities earn a sustainable livelihood. "India is the largest recipient of Official Development Assistance (ODA) from...
Forest Carbon Portal |
12 years 11 months ago
Representative from Pueblos Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica frente al Cambio Climático (Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon Basin to Combat Climate Change) have announced more details of a program that aims to help indigenous groups in the Amazon Basin develop REDD projects. Initially announced in...
FAO |
12 years 11 months ago
The integrity and resilience of mountain forests is under threat from increasing temperatures and wildfires, population growth and food and fuel insecurity, warns a new FAO publication released today.