Shanxi, Dec. 28, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) -- A newly planted forest will neutralize carbon dioxide emissions from a UN climate change conference as China ups its efforts to combat climate change, an official said here Tuesday.
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Timber Community |
14 years 11 months ago
When the fund company Banco would make their environmental funds carbon-neutral, they discovered that two forest companies accounted for half of the funds' carbon dioxide emissions writes dn.se. The forest companies, SCA and Stora Enso looked like real environmental villains in comparison with...
Climate Voices |
14 years 12 months ago
The forests in the Congo Basin, the second largest area of tropical forest in the world, are receiving increasing interest. Enormous amounts of carbon are stored in these forests, meaning that REDD proponents are increasingly looking at these forests to “offset” continued pollution in the...
World Resources Institute |
14 years 12 months ago
How does the new agreement on REDD set the stage for halting the destruction and degradation of forests?
The Guardian |
14 years 12 months ago
We were accused of being obstructionist, obstinate and unrealistic. But we feel an enormous obligation to set aside diplomacy and tell the truth
Forest Trends |
14 years 12 months ago
Forest carbon payments – payments for restoring or planting forest, or for preventing forest degradation or deforestation – can help to prevent and reverse forest loss. However, forest carbon transactions today raise many challenging issues for participants, including difficult legal questions...
Forest Trends |
14 years 12 months ago
Developing forest carbon projects is complex and often daunting for project proponents, whether they are from the private sector, civil society organizations or government agencies. Successful project development requires complying with rigorous requirements for analyzing and documenting carbon...
Yale University |
15 years 23 hours ago
Having had a chance to examine the REDD text of the Cancun Agreement, I find it a relatively positive step forward that manages to avoid some, but not all, of the misperceptions and biases that I encountered while attending REDD-oriented side events during my time at the COP. Below are some...
Kaieteur News |
15 years 1 day ago
Angered by a report which suggested that the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS) is based on advice that could be described as ‘junk economics,” President Bharrat Jagdeo has accused Rainforest Foundation UK of being stuck in the colonial-era mentality. International consultants, McKinsey and...
Washington Post |
15 years 23 hours ago
What exactly is the hold-up in terms of Norway's forestry assistance to Guyana, which Guyana's president Bharrat Jagdeo complained about last week during a panel sponsored by Avoided Deforestation Partners in Cancun?
Tropical Forestgroup |
15 years 1 day ago
Tonight at 7:07 pm, the California Air Resources Board voted to adopt the cap and trade regulations for AB32, California's global warming law. The final vote passed 9 -1.
Project Syndicate |
15 years 22 hours ago
CANCÚN – The official communiqué from the Cancún climate-change conference cannot disguise the fact that there will be no successor to the Kyoto Protocol when it expires at the end of 2012. Japan, among others, has withdrawn its support for efforts simply to extend the Kyoto treaty. This sounds...
Forum for the Future |
15 years 23 hours ago
The market for carbon as a traded commodity consists of two main sectors:
Carbon Positive |
15 years 22 hours ago
An agreement on tropical forest protection is being hailed as a significant success of the UN climate conference in Cancún, finding broad support among major international social and environmental NGOs. The agreement creates a framework for REDD+, a global mechanism to reduce deforestation and...
Small Donations |
15 years 2 days ago
The deal U.N. climate negotiators reached last week in Cancún is modest, but the gathering’s dramatic conclusion does restore confidence in the U.N. process, which was limping badly after last year’s fiasco in Copenhagen.
Climate-L |
15 years 5 days ago
March 2010: Global Witness, a non-governmental organization (NGO) representing civil society on the UN-REDD Policy Board, has submitted an assessment of the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Readiness-Preparation Proposals (R-PPs) and Joint Program Documents (JPDs) of the...
World Resources Institute |
15 years 5 days ago
On December 11, the Cancun climate talks concluded with the Cancun Agreements, a set of decisions that will move international action on climate change forward. A turning point for international climate negotiations, the Agreements solidify the role of the United Nations Framework Convention on...
GRIST |
15 years 6 days ago
Blogs Nature |
15 years 1 week ago
We're now heading into crunch time in Cancun, and suffice it to say that the ultimate fate of everything remains utterly unclear. More on that in a moment, but first let's take a more-detailed look at what is happening within the deforestation talks, where things are either going rather...
Clear Sky Climate Solutions |
15 years 1 week ago
The heavy interest in REDD+ projects is palpable here in Cancun. What is not so evident is that the compliance markets are going to be ready to move the REDD+ agenda forward. Even if an agreement comes out of this COP, it will effectively be authorizing the technical working groups to begin...