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29/8/2010
Tackling tropical deforestation can put a huge dent in global
carbon emissions, but also requires a big pool of money to make forests more valuable alive than dead. Forest projects seeking
carbon credits received a boon this week as a major ...
29/8/2010
In a communique e-mailed to AkanimoReports on Thursday by Mr. Philip Jakpor, Spokesperson for ERA, the thrust of the meeting was to build the capacity of critical stakeholders to understand, analyze, criticize and resist the
REDD scheme prior to ...
26/8/2010
In the last three weeks, Sarawak was abuzz with news of a particular climate change mitigation mechanism called
REDD (Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries).
First, a news article by Reuters ...
24/8/2010
The Nigerian government should actively engage forest community dwellers and civil society groups in the ongoing Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, (REDD), negotiation process; and adopt community forest management practices ...
24/8/2010
An Indonesian project aimed at saving a vast tract of
rainforest has past a milestone seen as a boost in the development of a global market in forest
carbon credits.
That market under the U.N.-backed scheme reducing emissions from ...
17/8/2010
Indonesia hopes to renegotiate its US$1 billion deal with Norway on reducing
carbon emissions by curbing deforestation, hoping Norway will accept tree planting as an eligible part of the program.
“We hope
REDD+ activities could be ...
11/8/2010
Two
carbon trade projects proposed for Papua New Guinea have been hammered by critics who list a litany of inconsistencies, dubious science, legal issues and concerns landowners will be ripped off.
PNG’s pilot Reducing Emissions from ...
10/8/2010
The dog licking itself lazily on the hot red earth is lying on a road that within months will make a huge leap across the Amazon, forming a ramp up to a bridge that will symbolise the surging development at the heart of the world's greatest ...
5/8/2010
Two
carbon trade projects proposed for Papua New Guinea have been hammered by critics who list a litany of inconsistencies, dubious science, legal issues and concerns landowners will be ripped off.
PNG's pilot Reducing Emissions from ...
1/8/2010
The independent review of the
REDD+ enabling activities required before any money is disbursed to this country under the Guyana-Norway forest protection agreement will be done within the next few months, Director of Norway’s Climate and Forest ...
23/7/2010
Scientists convening at the annual Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) meeting in Sanur, Bali urged Indonesia's leaders to strengthen measures to protect the country's biologically-rich ecosystems.
In a resolution ...
20/7/2010
This morning I woke up in a hotel in Manaus, Brazil, had breakfast overlooking the Negro River, then went for a run along the river’s beaches. It was an enjoyable way to begin my first visit to Brazil, a six-day, government-backed, jam-packed ...
16/7/2010
They inhabit a polluted part of Ivory Coast's main city with few jobs and a swelling population, but residents of Abidjan's slums have a rare respite: a stretch of pristine
rainforest.
From their wooden shacks and unpainted concrete ...
10/7/2010
Last week, after six months of evasions, obfuscation, denials and retractions, a story which has preoccupied this column on and off since January came to a startling conclusion. It turns out that one of the most widely publicised statements in ...
9/7/2010
It didn’t take long for palm oil producers to respond to Norway’s recently signed US$1 billion grant, given in exchange for a two-year moratorium on any new clearing of Indonesia’s
rainforest and peatlands. Association of Palm Oil Producers ...
5/7/2010
Human rights and environment groups have called for a radical rethink of the United Nations scheme, known as
REDD (Reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) after it emerged that some countries were trying to cheat the system, ...
20/6/2010
Although the Brazilian Amazon has recently experienced a decline in deforestation rates, researchers writing in Science say that forest fires in the region are on the rise--and that the benefits of decreased deforestation could be partially ...
14/6/2010
An interview with Agus Purnomo and Yani Saloh, Special Assistants to the President of the Republic of Indonesia for Climate Change.
Late last year Indonesia made global headlines with a bold pledge to reduce deforestation, which claimed ...
11/6/2010
Here is a paradox for those trying to save the
rainforests. Reducing the rate of deforestation often makes the number of forest fires go up. Yes, up.
The finding came from a study of satellite images of Amazonia by Luiz Aragão of the ...
7/6/2010
Carbon dioxide emissions from an unexpected rise in the number of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon may be cancelling out emission reductions from efforts to preserve
rainforests.
Researchers analysed satellite data on deforestation ...
4/6/2010
An agreement reached at an international conference last week pledged over four billion dollars to the U.N.'s effort to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that come from deforestation and forest degradation. But a study published Friday ...
3/6/2010
Fire occurrence rates in the Amazon have increased in 59% of areas with reduced deforestation and risks cancelling part of the
carbon savings achieved by UN measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and ...
3/6/2010
Fire occurrence rates in the Amazon have increased in 59% of areas with reduced deforestation and risks cancelling part of the
carbon savings achieved by UN measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and ...
31/5/2010
On Monday last, President Bharrat Jagdeo revealed another draft for his Low
Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS). Two days later he jetted off to Oslo, Norway, where a $4B US fund was signed into existence for the implementation of Reducing ...
27/5/2010
As forests in tropical nations are cleared to make way for large-scale agricultural plots, U.S. farmers may be taking a hit to their wallets.
A new report issued by the National Farmers Union and Avoided Deforestation Partners yesterday ...