South Africa is hosting a consultation and capacity-building workshop under the auspices of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+), with a focus on biodiversity safeguards. The workshop commenced on 20...
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CIFOR |
13 years 6 months ago
Inquirer Net |
13 years 6 months ago
One day in April, Florentino Saludo led a team of 19 men in trekking through the forest of Sitio Canlugoc in Lunas, Maasin, Southern Leyte, with a mission in mind: to cut trees. For the past 19 years, Saludo and his team had been planting trees in some 500 hectares of land under the reforestation...
CIFOR |
13 years 6 months ago
World Bank |
13 years 6 months ago
Providing Country(ies): Brazil
UN-REDD |
13 years 7 months ago
Illegal logging is a worldwide phenomenon. Through illegal logging much higher rents can be extracted from forests than through legal operations. Corruption is almost always deeply intertwined with illegal logging.
Manilla Bulletin |
13 years 7 months ago
MANILA, Philippines — Expedito Vanzuela, 59, was once an illegal logger, cutting trees in the forests of Maasin, the capital city of Southern Leyte, where he grew up. He sits outside the wooden shack in Sitio Canlugoc recalling those days. It is the headquarters of the Young Innovators for Social...
Guyana Chronicle |
13 years 7 months ago
Director General of the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Frances J. Seymour, is in Guyana to live her dream of embarking on an excursion to Iwokrama which she has for decades longed to visit.
Green Belt Movement |
13 years 7 months ago
This blog was written by an intern in GBMI’s Europe office, Antoni Michael
Business Week |
13 years 7 months ago
Sept. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Restoring and preserving dry-land forests can help provide food and fertilizer on small farms and prevent the recurrence of famine in Kenya and other African countries, a research group said. The destruction of forests and other forms of human-caused land degradation have...
Climate-I |
13 years 7 months ago
The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Risoe Centre has launched the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) Pipeline and Analysis Database. The database contains all submissions from developing countries and countries with economies in transition to the UNFCCC for NAMAs.
Nature |
13 years 7 months ago
Human-driven land-use changes increasingly threaten biodiversity, particularly in tropical forests where both species diversity and human pressures on natural environments are high1.
UNFEP FI |
13 years 7 months ago
Leading financial institutions upped the ante on their future role in mitigating climate change as they called for more effective forest-carbon regulations on the occasion of a UNEP FI report launch at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s European headquarters in London.
International Forest Industries |
13 years 7 months ago
Metso Corp.’s Board of Directors has decided to modify the company’s business structure in order to more effectively reach the company’s future business targets. Metso’s Power business, which is presently part of Energy and Environmental Technology segment, will be integrated with Paper and Fiber...
Just Means |
13 years 7 months ago
The UK-based International Institute for Environment and Development has issued a warning that tropical countries participating in REDD+ schemes, whereby they get compensated for protecting their forests to limit emissions of greenhouse gases from deforestation, could fail to reap social and...
AllAfrica |
13 years 7 months ago
Washington — The Congo Basin forest ecosystem is the world's second largest moist tropical forest, second only to the Amazon, and represents about one quarter of the globe's remaining closed canopy forest. It covers an area almost four times the size of France and spans six Central African...
ACS |
13 years 7 months ago
Welsh Icons |
13 years 7 months ago
Forestry Commission Wales is taking action to plug a growing skills gap in the forests of Wales by offering work to contractors who agree to take on apprentices. FC Wales, which manages the 126,000 hectares (311,000 acres) of woodland owned by the Welsh Government, hope the six new contracts up for...
APEC |
13 years 7 months ago
Recognizing the role of resource and energy constraints, climate change, loss of biological diversity, poverty and food insecurity, APEC Ministers Responsible for Forestry released a statement to support green growth, sustainable forest management and rehabilitation. Under the theme "Enhanced...
13 years 7 months ago
The Philippine National REDD-plus Strategy and Current Status (PDF) Climate-relevant modernisation of forest policy and piloting of REDD in the Philippines (PDF)