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The plan was simple: Log and sell as much dead pine as possible before it decayed or burned. But the environmental costs of the large-scale salvaging of Interior forests are still being tallied... The province sold the epidemic as unprecedented in North American history. Biblical plagues of...

When State Street Global Advisors, the investment management arm of State Street Corp., offered its first “high-quality green bond strategy” last month, it gave institutional investors a chance to hold segregated accounts that invest in fixed income instruments raising financing for projects meant...

Norway has been accused of climate hypocrisy in Indonesia, where it has won plaudits for financing forest protection even as its state pension fund allegedly secures even greater revenues from logging, plantations, mining and other environmentally destructive practices. Conservation groups say...

REDD+ projects need to be ready to make upfront investments to help local communities to develop alternative sources of income before implementing other aspects of the scheme such as conditional payments for protecting forests, a scientist says. REDD+ developers are shifting their strategies...

(Reuters) - Rich nations are on track to deliver on their promise to supply $30 billion in short-term climate financing by the end of next year to help poor countries tackle global warming. But doubts emerged at the climate talks in Durban this week over whether donors will be able to ramp-up...

June, 2011. Meyfroidt, P.; van Noordwijk, M.; Minang, P.A.; Dewi, S.; Lambin, E.F.. Policy Brief 25. ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins. 4 pages* Summary

The UNFCCC’s scientific sub-committee SBSTA has released a draft text on REDD+ that will go forward to a plenary session of the COP on Saturday for discussion and approval. Louis Verchot, CIFOR’s leading climate change scientist, said the text is robust and calls for transparent processes within...

Shri Ranjan Chatterjee, Consultant, Planning Commission, said that forests are meant for every body and we need to keep balance between environment and forests. Shri Chatterjee said, “Forests are under pressure because of lack of understanding. Forests are not merely to preserve but work towards...

November 20 we are celebrating UN’s Universal Day of Children, and this year is also the International Year of Forests. Consequently SCA takes the chance to talk more about what children really want: To spend and play more time in the fresh air and the forests. A representative SCA study conducted...