When looking at the remarkably complex world of carbon offset, REDD+, sustainable forestry and natural resource management, Mexico is emerging as one of the world’s leading open-air laboratories.
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IFAD Social Reporting |
13 years 3 months ago
Wildlife Conservation Society |
13 years 3 months ago
As part of a Tanzania-wide investment in Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) initiatives, the Royal Norwegian Government is supporting WCS to conduct a REDD Readiness project in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania.
IETA |
13 years 3 months ago
Washington, DC – At a press conference held jointly with Avoided Deforestation Partners at IETA’s Carbon Forum North America, the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) unveiled a new publication series that will address critical policy issues for REDD+ from the perspective of the...
CIFOR |
13 years 3 months ago
Washington Examiner |
13 years 3 months ago
It's trendy to talk about "corporate social responsibility." The idea is companies have obligations beyond making a profit for their shareholders or creating products and services that their customers want; they have responsibilities to wider society as well. So, CSR may sound harmless, even...
Indigenous People Issues |
13 years 3 months ago
The importance of biodiversity and livelihood aspects within the design of REDD-plus has been recognized at many levels. Achieving these multiple benefits will require new levels of collaboration among different actors at national and international levels.
RUNA |
13 years 3 months ago
The All-Russia meeting dedicated to the forestry relations joined the executives and experts from all the country to the Taurida Palace. The most relevant issues at the moment are the forest fire protection and reforestation. This was announced by Victor Zubkov, the Vice Prime-Minister of the...
AllAfrica |
13 years 3 months ago
As the world grapples with the challenges of feeding an ever-growing population, findings from a recent research by International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IITA), showed that science-based farming methods integrating the systematic use of fertilizers by farmers can significantly reduce...
Forest Talk |
13 years 3 months ago
Arnold Bercov, president of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada Local 8, is very concerned that shipping raw logs out of British Columbia is coming at a cost to many local mills. Bercov said he was informed by Western Forest Products that their Ladysmith mill is one of several mills on...
American Carbon Registry |
13 years 4 months ago
The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a non-profit enterprise of Winrock International, announces the posting of REDD Methodology Modules for public comment by ACR members, project proponents and other interested stakeholders. All ACR methodologies, whether developed by Winrock International or...
13 years 4 months ago
The UNECE/FAO Forestry & Timber Section is organizing a Seminar on the "State of forests and forest management in the UNECE region in the context of current and future needs and challenges". This Seminar takes place on World Forest Day and opens the Regional Forest Information Week (21-25...
BENZINGA |
13 years 4 months ago
(EMAILWIRE.COM, March 15, 2011 ) Boca Raton, FL (TBD) --- ecoForests, a pioneer sustainable forestry investment company, has been selected to appear on 21st Century Business, an award winning international television series. This series will focus on Tropical Timber as a Stable Investment.
Formulation of a National Code of Practice (CoP) for Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) in Suriname
Until now the Suriname forest sector (both commercial loggers and community based forestry) lacks an appropriate set of rules and regulations for sustainable forest use and management.
Mongabay |
13 years 4 months ago
The Chronicle Herald |
13 years 4 months ago
Add this up if you can. After decades of public outrage and expert testimony about too much clearcutting in Nova Scotia and a three-year process to create a natural resources policy meant to bring about sustainable forestry, the NDP government appears to be sending the whole thing up in smoke at...
ABC |
13 years 4 months ago
Growing trees is nature’s way of absorbing carbon from the atmosphere. So most would assume that the forest industry would be front and centre of the government’s climate change policy. They’d be wrong. The government’s carbon price to be introduced from July 2012 will rightly focus on the...
Indigenous People Issues |
13 years 4 months ago
The Center for People and Forests |
13 years 4 months ago
The principle that indigenous peoples and local communities have a right to give or withhold their Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) to developments affecting their resources is not new. However, experience using FPIC in REDD+ implementation is still limited in the Asia-Pacific region....
Stabroek News |
13 years 4 months ago
Dear Editor, I am an international forestry consultant who has lived in Guyana whilst working for the Iwokrama International Centre on an International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) project. I also have experience in Canada and several Latin American and Caribbean countries. More recently...
Alert Net |
13 years 4 months ago
here are a billion hungry people in the world and that number could rise as food insecurity increases along with population growth, economic fallout and environmental crises. But a roadmap to defeating hunger exists, if we can follow the course -- and that course involves ditching corporate-...