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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 ...
31/5/2013
Rimba Raya, the world's largest
REDD+ project, has finally been approved by the Indonesian government and verified under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), a leading certification standard for carbon credits.
The 64,000-hectare
forest ...
25/5/2013
At a national workshop on Indonesia’s moratorium hosted by the United Nations earlier this month, noted Indonesian ecologist Sonya Dewi likened the moratorium to a durian. She spoke of its polarizing effect. People either love it or hate it. ...
3/4/2013
A few weeks ago the Skoll World Forum hosted an online debate on how increased global consumption can be balanced with sustainability. The debate asks how a rapidly growing world that is ever consuming can hope to feed everyone, and at the same ...
8/3/2013
At least US$7.3 billion has been pledged for
REDD+ over the period from 2008 to 2015, with $4.3 billion pledged for
REDD+ readiness during the fast-start period alone (2010-2012). In addition to these funds, private investors, private ...
28/1/2013
In Indonesia, the name for the island of Borneo is Kalimantan. It is the third largest island in the world, renowned for its lush tropical rainforests, one of only two strongholds for the intelligent, endangered orangutan.
While ...
14/1/2013
Biofuel refinery in new industrial zone in Tapachula, an exporting city on the coast of Chiapas. With plans for expansion, there is a coffee plant to its left and an
oil refinery being built on its right. Mexico is currently laying the foundation ...
31/12/2012
2012 was another year of mixed news for the world's tropical
forests. This is a look at some of the most significant tropical rainforest-related news stories for 2012.
There were many other important stories in 2012 and some were ...
27/9/2012
Organised crime trade worth billions of dollars is responsible for 50 to 90 percent of illegal logging in parts of the Amazon basin, Central Africa and Southeast Asia, with implications for deforestation,
climate change and the well-being of ...
19/7/2012
Industrial logging in tropical
forests that is both sustainable and profitable is impossible, argues a new study in Bioscience, which finds that the ecology of tropical hardwoods makes logging with truly sustainable practices not only ...
23/5/2012
Unless the rapid deforestation in one of the world’s most richly-forested countries is controlled, Indonesians may one day wonder, "where are all the flowers gone." To those lyrics by legendary U.S. singer Joan Baez they might also have to add, ...
15/5/2012
Indonesia has launched a criminal investigation into the burning of a peatland
forest on Sumatra island that environmentalists said resulted in the deaths of orangutans, an official said on Tuesday.
Investigators will summon officials ...
23/4/2012
A coalition of local and international conservation groups warned last month that orangutans in the Tripa
forest on Sumatra island could disappear by the end this year unless action was taken to stop land clearing using fire by plantation ...
19/4/2012
Throughout much of the Pleistocene era, which began 2.5 million years ago, many of the world’s large mammals survived periods of glaciation and deglaciation by moving across a landscape devoid of humans. Then as the Pleistocene drew to a close at ...
19/4/2012
Africa’s
forests are fast diminishing to the detriment of
climate, biodiversity, and millions of people of dependent on
forest resources for their well-being. But is the full conservation of Africa's
forests necessary to mitigate global
climate ...
6/4/2012
THE man who signed the permit that allowed 1600 hectares of carbon-rich peat
forest and orang-utan habitat to be razed and turned into a
palm oil plantation agrees his decision was ''morally wrong''.
However, Irwandi Yusuf, the former ...
5/4/2012
THE man who signed the permit allowing 1600 hectares of carbon-rich peat
forest and orang-utan habitat to be razed and turned into a
palm oil plantation agrees his decision was ''morally wrong''.
However, Irwandi Yusuf, the former ...
27/3/2012
Woods Hole Research CenterAbove-ground biomass in southern Asia and Oceania, based on data gathered by laser satellite technology. Dark green indicates the highest potential for carbon storage.
Tropical
forests, alongside boreal
forests ...
27/3/2012
A $100 million peat conservation project launched in the heart of Indonesian Borneo by the Australian government has been dramatically scaled back and is largely failing to meet expectations, hampering efforts to develop an effective Reducing ...
10/3/2012
When the United Nations process on
climate change unveiled the program known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and
Forest Degradation (REDD) three years ago, it was hailed by its architects as “an effort to create a financial value for the ...
13/2/2012
In June 2012 around 40,000 participants are expected to attend one of the most important environmental gatherings in a generation – Rio+20. A draft agenda has been released, bearing the slogan “The Future We Want”. It identifies seven critical ...
25/1/2012
Tropical countries may face a risk of 'peak timber' as continued logging of rainforests exceeds the capacity of
forests to regenerate timber stocks and substantially increases the risk of outright clearing for agricultural and industrial ...
28/12/2011
2011 was designated as "Year of the
Forests" by the United Nations. While there was relatively little progress on intergovernmental
forest protection programs during the year, a lot happened elsewhere. Below is a look at some of the biggest ...
21/12/2011
Indonesia exempted 3.6 million hectares of
forests and peatlands from protected status under its two-year moratorium on
forest concessions, according to a revised version of its moratorium map released near the end of
climate talks in ...
6/12/2011
Halting tropical deforestation gained a new level of urgency at the Durban
climate change summit on Sunday: the practice contributes roughly twice as much to global warming as recent estimates suggest.
The news comes as Brazil announced ...