REDD+ aims to reduce emissions from forests, prevent deforestation and encourage investment in low-carbon development. Christian Aid’s Latin American and Caribbean partners believe that such projects must be managed by local communities and be truly inclusive.
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ECO congregation Ireland |
11 years 10 months ago
DFID |
11 years 10 months ago
The forest-friendly package was announced by the Deputy Prime Minster at the UN Earth Summit in Rio - also known as Rio+20- taking place this week. The UK will invest in a forest management 'knowledge bank' to help indigenous people in the poorest and most remote forest areas to protect their...
JIKO |
11 years 10 months ago
Since 2005, the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Cimate Change (UNFCCC) negotiate how the protection of rainforests could be integrated into the climate regime. This discussion paper primarily addresses the question of how this integration via the REDD (Reducing Emissions from...
CIFOR |
11 years 10 months ago
A scheme for reducing global carbon emissions by slowing deforestation in tropical countries has changed drastically and become “aid-ified” since it was first floated in 2005, according to a major new publication on the subject. From its early days, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest...
IBI-Times |
11 years 10 months ago
Five major corporations will join the emergency campaign to save the world's threatened forests by pledging to buy REDD multimillion dollar credits from projects protecting threatened forests around the world, the campaign announced Tuesday at the U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development,...
New Matilda |
11 years 10 months ago
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono this week urged the international community to protect its forests, in the wake of forestry issues being sidelined at Rio+20 conference on sustainable development to be held later this month. "Sustainable forestry is critical to our efforts at...
11 years 10 months ago
This week, I published a short policy brief with the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway. Entitled ‘Unready for REDD+? Lessons from Corruption in Ugandan Conservation Areas‘, the brief reviews coverage of a recent scandal involving a US $37...
Orissa Diary |
11 years 10 months ago
ecalling the 2009 U.S.-India MOU on clean energy, energy efficiency, energy security and climate change, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Minister of External Affairs S.M.
Greenwood Investment |
11 years 10 months ago
Ikea has come under heavy criticism for failing to use sustainable forestry for making its wooden furniture. The Swedish company has been found to have cleared old-growth forests in the north of Russia in Karelia through its wholly-owned subsidiary Swedwood.
Boston.com |
11 years 10 months ago
China has made significant progress in restoring its forest cover while also allowing residents to make a living from plantations, forest products and tourism, the RRI report says. In southwestern China’s Tengchong area, local communities are allowed to vote on whether to manage the forests...
Vietnam Times |
11 years 10 months ago
Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the German consulting company GITEC Consult GmbH have agreed to partner in biodiversity conservation in southern Laos under a project set to run until 2018. A cooperation contract was jointly signed yesterday by the ministry's Department of Forest...
InternationalForestIndustries |
11 years 10 months ago
The city of Melbourne has been revealed as the location for an architectural world first. New plans were unveiled last Friday showing that the city will receive a unique addition to its iconic skyline - the world’s tallest timber high-rise building. Major industry leaders Lend Lease have revealed...
ECO-Business |
11 years 10 months ago
Income generated from REDD+ should be given to forest communities to invest in their future, recommends a new report by The Forests Dialogue (TFD). Investing locally in this way should be part of understanding REDD+ as integral to broader development among forest-dependent communities.
Guardian |
11 years 10 months ago
InternationalForestIndustries |
11 years 10 months ago
Log supply from Australia’s timber plantations is set to increase substantially according to a new report, released by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES). Australia’s plantation log supply 2010-2054 forecasts the volume of plantation logs available...
CIFOR |
11 years 10 months ago
Legal clarity and consensus on which government institutions have the authority to make regulations on how to share benefits from REDD+ among stakeholders are critical to ensure the process’ legitimacy and avoid future disputes, recommended a study conducted by the Center for International Forestry...
Daily News Tanzania |
11 years 10 months ago
AN audit report by Ernst & Young has established that 400,000 US dollars (approx. 624m/-) was misappropriated by the WWF local staff who forged hotel, taxi receipts and direct corruption. As a result of the audit report, eight employees have been terminated while six have resigned during the...
Copenhagen Post |
11 years 10 months ago
Three Danish aid projects in Vietnam have been shut down following reports of widespread fraud. The development minister, Christian Friis Bach (Radikale), cut off funding to all three projects after an independent review by Price Waterhouse Coopers uncovered “numerous irregularities”.
Kaieteur News Online |
11 years 10 months ago
The Indian coffee company which was given a forestry concession to mainly carry out value added activities has said that its main plant will in fact be in India and not Guyana. This raises concerns that the company will continue to export logs out of Guyana. Two months ago the company, Vaitarna...
Think African |
11 years 10 months ago
With the lyrics of American rap legend Tupac Shakur pumping from the car stereo, 36-year-old Steve Okoikpi manoeuvres his Mercedes Benz through sharp bends on the road. The destination is Akasanko, a forest community of about 500 people on the outskirts of Calabar, the capital of Cross River State...