Last week, President Jagdeo noted that the financial agreement between Norway and Guyana via the Forest Protection Memorandum will see Guyana with the first installment of 30 million USD this week.
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Japan Finance Cooperation |
14 years 1 month 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...
Guyana Chronicle |
14 years 1 month 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...
The Guardian |
14 years 1 month 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.
Green Investing |
14 years 1 month ago
A new scheme is being tested that will help businesses find out the real potential of tree planting projects designed to sequester carbon. The Forestry Commission is set to begin testing a quality assurance scheme, the Woodland Carbon Code, which will provide businesses with transparency about...
Ecosystem Marketplace |
14 years 1 month 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...
FIELD |
14 years 1 month 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...
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide |
14 years 1 month ago
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): A Guide for Landowners and Forest Communities in the Pacific
Embassy of Finland in Vietnam |
14 years 1 month ago
A workshop to discuss a report aiming for technical assistance in the Development of the National REDD programme (United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries) for Vietnam was organised at the ministry of...
Carbonoffsets Daily |
14 years 1 month ago
Indonesian pulp and paper firm Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has signed a deal to protect 15,640 hectares of peat forest in Sumatra in exchange for carbon payments, reports Reuters. Under the agreement signed with Carbon Conservation, a forest carbon broker based in Singapore, APP supplier PT Putra...
Business Wire |
14 years 1 month 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...
Climate Justice Now |
14 years 1 month 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...
ECO Business |
14 years 1 month ago
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...
Physorg |
14 years 1 month ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a warming 21st century, tropical forests will be at risk from a variety of threats, especially the conversion to cropland to sustain a growing population. A new report this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition shows that crop productivity...
Sys-CON |
14 years 1 month ago
WATERLOO, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 10/01/10 -- Today, the Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment, released the details of Canada's $400 million commitment for international climate change while speaking to the Centre for International Governance Innovation's annual conference...
Stabroek News |
14 years 1 month ago
…if developed countries keep commitments President Bharrat Jagdeo believes that there are key opportunities that can be had at the Cancun, Mexico meeting on climate change that would improve on commitments made in the Copenhagen Accord last year. He said this would ensure that capital to...
BUA News |
14 years 1 month ago
Johannesburg - South Africa plans to address the impact of climate change by reducing carbon emissions by at least 43 percent in the next decade while a series of strict measures will also be put in place to avert pollution by the country's mines. This is contained in a delivery agreement...
Canadian Climate Action |
14 years 1 month ago
Indigenous brothers of the world: I am deeply concerned because some pretend to use leaders and indigenous groups to promote the commoditization of nature and in particular of forest through the establishment of the REDD mechanism (Reduction Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) and its...
Ministry of foreign affairs |
14 years 1 month ago
According to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change(UNFCCC), it is the developed countries who contributes most to historical and current global emissions of greenhouse gas, while per capita emission in developing countries remains relatively low.
Business Grenn |
14 years 1 month ago
An "historic milestone" in the forestry carbon market was reached this week as the first carbon credits from a land-use project were verified and issued under the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS). Credits from the Uchindile-Mapanda reforestation project in Tanzania were issued on the VCS...