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Just like private property, carbon sequestration credits can now be bought and sold on national or international markets. Countries such as Australia are creating this new private property in response to international schemes that reward developing countries and landholders for REDD+, so-called for...

TOSHAOS and Regional Chairmen of the 10 administrative regions yesterday declared that Guyana does not have any existing group of indigenous people living in isolation. This declaration came following a presentation by Project Coordinator- Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, Sharon Austin, on the...

Legal rights and recognition for the diverse indigenous peoples of Suriname have lagged behind those in other South American countries. Despite pressure from the UN and binding judgments by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Suriname has yet to recognize indigenous and tribal land rights, a...

The smell of smoke still lingers from wildfires that recently ravaged more than 1,000 square miles in Arizona. The conflagrations have underscored the importance of good forest management. Unchecked growth over decades in the western United States, for example, has left at risk nearly half a...

Many migrants from southern Brazil who clear forests in Brazil’s state of Amazonas are making their living as small-scale land speculators and not as farmers or as cattle ranchers, new research has found. This on-the-ground reality and the proposed changes to Brazil’s Forest Code are likely to ramp...

While the Obama administration’s push to regulate domestic greenhouse gas emissions has mostly stalled, the worldwide fight for carbon suppression continues. Consider an ambitious United Nations effort that, while not widely known in the U.S., has implications for developing world economic growth...

Paris, 19 July 2011. In March 2011, PROPARCO committed US$10m to the first fund specialized in sub-Saharan Africa’s forestry sector via the Investment and Support Fund for Businesses in Africa (FISEA). GEF Africa Sustainable Forestry Fund (GASFF) was launched in 2010 at the initiative of Britain’s...

Clean cook stoves are helping to decrease the use of fuel wood and promote the sustainability of local resources. These stoves use 50 to 70 percent less fuel, usually in the form of wood or charcoal, the primary sources of energy for many impoverished people in the world.

Countries where the majority of tropical forests are located and targeted by the REDD scheme [Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation] are in a condition described as “fragile”. These states have a combination of the following characteristics; a failed rule of law, weak...