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18/6/2013
The United Nation’s Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) program garnered conflicting opinions at the recent UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), held May 20-31 in New York City.Under
REDD+, in return ...
18/6/2013
When we talk about combating climate, the most obvious issues that come to mind are policies to prevent carbon dioxide emissions - cap-and-trade programs and carbon taxes and environmental regulations. Then there are the technological solutions ...
11/6/2013
Advanced Global Trading, a Dubai-based company selling voluntary carbon credits to retail investors, has been accused of being either a boiler room scam or Ponzi scheme by a website which writes about emissions and
deforestation.
The ...
8/6/2013
What are corporate leaders to do once they realize that their environmental impacts are significant and undercutting the very structure and function of the green infrastructure upon which we all rely? Honestly, business leaders will need to roll ...
8/6/2013
The launch of the largest project in the world to preserve forest carbon under the UN
REDD+ scheme could help attract funding for similar projects, according to a UN Environment Programme (UNEP) expert.
REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from ...
5/6/2013
The Philippines is to receive more than P700 million from the German government for the implementation of two projects for climate change mitigation and the protection of flora and fauna, officials said Tuesday.
The Department of ...
1/6/2013
A program called
REDD could be the fastest, least expensive way to stall global warming.
REDD is a scheme that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from
deforestation by preserving trees. Award-winning correspondent Alex Chadwick and producer ...
1/6/2013
Our concerns about climate change have focused on limiting rising emissions from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, which push carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. We don’t focus as much on land-use change, and for a ...
30/5/2013
The market for carbon credits generated from projects that reduce
deforestation and forest degradation - a climate change mitigation approach known as
REDD+ - dipped eight percent in 2012 according to an annual assessment of the global voluntary ...
30/5/2013
Activists have lauded a decision by Indonesia's president to extend a moratorium on new logging licenses, calling it a historic move in the struggle to save the country's forests and cut carbon emissions. But some experts say the new policy ...
28/5/2013
Friday before last, Camila Duarte and I spent the day down at the University of Chicago. Camila is a visiting Brazilian student who has worked with colleague Camila Ribas in Manaus, Brazil. She will be gathering molecular data on several species ...
28/5/2013
Indigenous people in Panama are asking the United Nations to close down its global forestry programme,
REDD, in their country.
REDD -- Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and forest Degradation -- is designed to slow climate change by ...
25/5/2013
Issues related to the ownership of forest carbon and to prior consultation mechanisms threaten to derail plans for the Reduction of Emissions from
Deforestation and Degradation of Forests (REDD+) in some countries of Latin America, according to ...
19/5/2013
When Californians passed AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act, we committed to one of the most forward-thinking pieces of climate legislation in the country, with comprehensive strategies to reduce carbon emissions from nearly all sectors of ...
17/5/2013
Panama's largest association of indigenous people will sue the Panamanian government to shut down the country's Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) program.
The National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in ...
8/5/2013
The hula-hoop first caught on in the US state of California, as did crack cocaine. For better or worse, that's where trends originate before they sweep the nation and, often, the world. So it's apropos that California is closely engaging with the ...
7/5/2013
Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan has confirmed that the forest moratorium based on Presidential Instruction No 10/2011 which will expire this May, to be extended but he still does not know when the new regulation to be issued."The forest ...
7/5/2013
As the two-year moratorium on
deforestation faces expire, Indonesia has launched its first forest governance index to address the current state of forest protection and management of central and provincial government.
"Good forest ...
27/4/2013
Sustainability is all the rage these days. The phrase “Sustainable Development” can be heard with equal frequency in both boardrooms and dorm rooms. That’s because it’s a phrase implying you can have your cake and eat it too.
The only ...
24/4/2013
Deforestation pumps more than seven billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, which is more than any single industrial sector. Carbon finance can reduce this by paying people to save endangered rainforest via mechanisms like
REDD ...
18/4/2013
Investing in healthy forests is not only vital for human and environmental well-being but also crucial in the transition to a low-carbon, resource-efficient green economy, says the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Over a ...
18/4/2013
Beef and soya products from Brazil accounted for a third of carbon emissions associated with
deforestation between 1990-2010, scientists say.
They warn that the UN`s Reducing Emissions from
Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) ...
17/4/2013
Rising agricultural profitability due to higher prices, improved crop productivity, and forest conservation itself could make it increasingly difficult for conservation programs tied to payments for ecosystem services to succeed, warns a study ...
12/4/2013
Negotiators, big NGOs, and companies In U.N. environmental summits are promoting the “Green Economy” as a win-win-win for people, the environment and business interests. Yet global South social movements denounce the Green Economy for serving the ...
10/4/2013
Nascent carbon emissions-trading exchanges in several countries are increasingly looking at options to interlink with one another, which advocates say would offer investors long-term stability, increase revenues for the development of renewable ...