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CIFOR |
13 years 3 months ago
World Bank |
13 years 3 months ago
CIFOR |
13 years 3 months ago
Douglas Sheil and I launched CoFCCloT in August 2011. A Google search for CoFCCloT results in 138,000 hits just now. Not bad for an organization that doesn’t exist.
World Agroforestry Centre |
13 years 3 months ago
The last of the Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB) seminar series was presented by Audrey Chenevoy from Institut Superieur d’Agriculture (ISA) in France. She is working with others within the ASB Partnership for Tropical Forest Margins to further ICRAF’s work on the REDD+ Program. In the last 5...
IISD |
13 years 3 months ago
20 September 2011: The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, James Anaya, addressed the 18th session of the UN Human Rights Council, held from 12-30 September 2011, in Geneva, Switzerland, and presented his report focusing on extractive industries operating within or near...
UN-REDD |
13 years 3 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.
Guyana Chronicle |
13 years 3 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 3 months ago
This blog was written by an intern in GBMI’s Europe office, Antoni Michael
Business Week |
13 years 3 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...
Manilla Bulletin |
13 years 3 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...
UNFEP FI |
13 years 3 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 3 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...
Climate-I |
13 years 3 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 3 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.
APEC |
13 years 3 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 3 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)
YALE |
13 years 3 months ago
Industrial palm oil production is coming to Africa, its ancestral home. The world’s most productive oil seed has been a boon to Asian economies, but the looming arrival of large-scale plantations in Africa is raising fears that some of the same issues plaguing Malaysia, Indonesia, and other leading...
Engineering News |
13 years 3 months ago
Engineering, management and specialist technical services group Aurecon and sugar producer TSB Sugar have been contracted by the Mpumalanga Cane Growers Association to undertake a feasibility study to investigate boosting economic development in rural areas in Mpumalanga’s Nkomazi district using...
GoForWood |
13 years 3 months ago
John Paterson, Wood Purchasing Manager at Egger UK said "We were delighted to take the first deliveries of privately grown PEFC round wood from Scottish Woodlands. As a result of increasing demand for PEFC certified chipboard from our customers, we required a guaranteed supply of PEFC certified...
Forest Carbon Asia |
13 years 3 months ago
Proper attention needs to be given to livelihood improvement. Forest protection is an important objective, yet local livelihoods, particularly food security of local people, needs to be taken into account. The goal of forest protection may not be achieved otherwise. Appropriate land and resource...