ON July 18, 2011, the World Bank, as Trustee of the Guyana REDD Investment Fund (GRIF), received the second installment of the Norway funds in the amount of NOK 213 million, or approximately US$38M, and as a result, there is now approximately US$68 million available for funding decisions by the...
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Climatico Analysis |
13 years 8 months ago
In recent years the transfer of climate finance has emerged as a policy response to equitably addressing climate change mitigation and adaption in developing countries. Much attention has been given to setting up the multilateral or bilateral mechanisms needed to classify, transfer and disburse the...
PaperIndex Times |
13 years 8 months ago
Helsinki, Finland, Jul 28, 2011 - All the necessary approvals concerning the sales of UPM’s Russian logging company ZAO Tikhvinsky Komplexny Lespromkhoz to International Paper have been obtained and the transaction has been closed. The sales of Tikhvinsky KLP to International Paper was announced on...
EFI |
13 years 8 months ago
A Host Country Agreement has been signed by the Kingdom of Spain and the European Forest Institute. The agreement was signed yesterday by Cristina Garmendia Mendizabal, Minister for Science and Innovation of Spain and Risto Päivinen, Director of EFI. EFI will have privileges and immunities of an...
Mongabay |
13 years 8 months ago
Indonesia's forests were cleared at a rate of 1.5 million hectares per year between 2000 and 2009, reports a new satellite-based assessment by Forest Watch Indonesia (FWI), an NGO. Expansion of oil palm and wood-pulp plantations were the biggest drivers of deforestation, yet account for a declining...
TFT |
13 years 8 months ago
A recent Global Witness report on WWF’s GFTN programme has in particular targeted Malaysian company Ta Ann. This company has replied with a statement refuting the allegations and claiming the legality and origin of its timber had been verified by TFT.
International Forest Industries |
13 years 8 months ago
Obtala Resources Limited (AIM:OBT), the natural resource investment and development company, today announces that it has concluded a Share Purchase Agreement (”SPA”) to acquire a private Mozambique registered company (”Acquisition”). The vendor holds a forestry concession in north-east Mozambique,...
Climate-I |
13 years 8 months ago
The World Bank approved a US$13 million project from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to strengthen the capacities of the Congo Basin countries on issues related to REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, as well as conservation, sustainable...
Global Witness |
13 years 8 months ago
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AlertNet |
13 years 8 months ago
* Credits to reduce deforestation and degradation (REDD) * Each is for a tonne of CO2 saved by unfelled forest * So far demand is only in a small, thin voluntary market By Valerie Volcovici, Point Carbon News WASHINGTON, July 24 - As U.N. talks keep failing to agree how to raise money to protect...
The Globe & Mail |
13 years 8 months ago
Each year in British Columbia about 16,000 hectares of forest are sprayed with a herbicide that contains glyphosate. It is one of the most popular weed killers in the world, according to the manufacturer, Monsanto. But using it in B.C.’s forests appears to be a mistake on several levels, and...
Global Witness |
13 years 8 months ago
Eine neue Untersuchung von Global Witness deckt auf, dass das Aushängeprojekt des WWF zur Förderung nachhaltiger Holzgewinnung – das sogenannte Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN) – Unternehmen gestattet, aus den Vorteilen einer Zusammenarbeit mit WWF und seinem ikonischen Panda-Symbol zu...
Guardian |
13 years 8 months ago
Reading Global Witness' report this week on how WWF let timber companies use its panda brand logo while they were razing some of the world's most biologically rich rainforests, I was reminded of a trip I took to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2007.
Centre for Social and Economic Research |
13 years 8 months ago
Current plans to mitigate deforestation could adversely affect rural poor New research shows that international plans to pay developing countries to reduce tropical forest destruction may increase rural poverty because critical income streams to rural people have been ignored.
Environmental Finance |
13 years 8 months ago
How can finance be mobilised to protect the world’s rainforests, in a climate of extreme policy uncertainty? Environmental Finance and Irbaris convened a panel of experts to try to find out. Mark Nicholls reports
Climate-Connect |
13 years 8 months ago
Climate Connect News, London, 14 July 2011: The number of member nations in the UN REDD programme has now reached 35. The programme's policy board approved addition of Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Honduras, Ethiopia, Peru and Mongolia. .
International ForestIndustries |
13 years 8 months ago
New tools and the latest decision support technology for forest fire management will be timely for the first of 14 BNZ Tech Clinics at New Zealand Forest Industries 2011 in Rotorua in September. With predictions of a warm winter, September will see the summer fire season approaching, along with...
Rights and Resources |
13 years 8 months ago
In the last decade, countries have committed major resources to reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD). A debate continues on how REDD financing should include related activities, such as the enhancement of carbon stocks through...
Ecosystem Marketplace |
13 years 8 months ago
Indigenous people like Uganda’s Bunyoro-Kitara tend to take good care of their land – and to lose big when someone else finds natural resources on it. Payments for ecosystem services (PES) offer a way to profit from good stewardship, but only if governments keep things clean. Unfortunately, that’...
Engineering News |
13 years 8 months ago
Paper and packaging group Mondi aims to settle all its land restitution claims in KwaZulu-Natal over the next two years, with 33 claims still outstanding, CEO David Hathorn said on Thursday. “This will be done as funding becomes available from government,” he told Engineering News Online. About 50...