The United Nations Environmental Award presented to President Bharrat Jagdeo may well turn out to be the last such award given for advocates of climate change. The tide is slowly turning against climate change advocates and especially those, such as President Jagdeo, who are pushing for a...
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Forest Carbon Portal |
14 years 6 months ago
Author/organization: Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia (IPAM), Woods Hole Research Center, Forest Trends, Global Eco Rescue, Tropical Forest Group, and Instituto de Conservação e Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Amazonas (IDESAM)
Carbon Offsets Daily |
14 years 6 months ago
Point Carbon Research projects that the price for each metric tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) would average US$26 over the period 2013-2020 under a federal cap-and-trade system as outlined in the American Power Act (APA). The price projection comes after Point Carbon’s preliminary...
Planting Empowerment |
14 years 6 months ago
A recent article on the BBC website decried the treatment of local populations in the development of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) projects.
GFC 2010 |
14 years 6 months ago
SPEECH BY THE MINISTER OF FORESTRY OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA AT THE CLOSING OF THE GOVERNORS’ CLIMATE AND FOREST (GCF) TASKFORCE MEETING Banda Aceh, 20 May 2010 His Excellency Miniter of Environment of Indonesia, His Excellency Governor of Aceh, Distinguished Participants and Guests,...
Solve Climate |
14 years 6 months ago
Brazil is the fourth-largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, responsible for about 5 percent of current global GHG emissions. Maybe this isn’t shocking. It’s a huge country. Its south is speckled with major population centers, and it has a southern industrial belt. Yet most of its emissions...
yeangdonal Blogspot |
14 years 6 months ago
Official in Oddar Meanchey province on Monday began relocating a group of 200 families living in a protected forest area near Samraong town, ending a standoff that led to a violent altercation between villagers and Forestry Department workers in March, officials said.
Business Times |
14 years 6 months ago
PEDRO MOURA COSTA’s journey from plant scientist to eco-millionaire began on the end of a shovel in Borneo. It was 1991 and the recent Oxford PhD had followed his wife to the island, where she had gone to study for her doctorate. It was there that he fell into what, at the time, was an unheard-...
The Philippine Star |
14 years 6 months ago
Forest Carbon Portal |
14 years 6 months ago
Community Forestry International (CFI), in partnership with Terra Global Capital (TGC), recently published a case study describing experiences emerging from the design and carbon development of one of the world’s first community-based REDD+ projects in Oddar Meanchey Province, Cambodia.
Carbon Watch |
14 years 6 months ago
The picture of the global carbon market is a murky one, stymied on the one hand by the lack of a U.S. climate policy, and bubbling over on the other hand with a highly speculative, and even murkier, voluntary market.
BBC |
14 years 6 months ago
No-one I know who survived the two-week incarceration in Copenhagen's Bella Center in December believes everything is tight and rosy with the UN climate process. The yawning chasm between the rhetoric of "the most serious problem facing humanity" and the reality that governments are nowhere...
The Ecologist |
14 years 6 months ago
Oxford Economics Professor and former head of Development Research at the World Bank, Paul Collier on reconciling romantic environmentalism and mainstream economics to help poor countries. Matilda Lee: How do environmentalists and economists reconcile vastly differing views about the value of...
TIME |
14 years 6 months ago
Much of the handwringing by greens over the new climate and energy bill introduced in the Senate on May 12 has focused on the overtly controversial aspects of the legislation: the partial allowances it makes for new offshore oil drilling, for instance, and the ceiling it puts on carbon prices....
Ecosystem Marketplace |
14 years 6 months ago
The UN has declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity, but the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) remains the poor (and largely forgotten) sibling to the headline-grabbing climate-change convention (UNFCCC). Delegates to CBD talks in Nairobi this week and next are looking at...
The Guardian |
14 years 6 months ago
Paul Collier CBE is a heavyweight economist, in the same league as Joseph Stiglitz and Jeffrey Sachs. He's an Oxford professor and a former head of research at the World Bank, as well as being a UN and British government adviser. He is an authority on war and democracy, he has addressed the UN...
Daily News Tanzania |
14 years 6 months ago
A MAJOR global conference to form the first real genuine partnership to fight climate change through Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) in developing countries will be held in Oslo, Norway later this month. The conference which is expected to be attended by...
14 years 6 months ago
In April, Guyana submitted a revised Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP), which provides an overview of the country's planned strategy for developing REDD Readiness.