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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. ...
19/5/2013
Ask Sreap Samoen where are the communal grazing lands? Where can local villagers fish and grow crops? The 50-year-old woman with a weather-beaten face points into the distance and says: "It's all gone. The company has it now."She's ...
18/5/2013
Efforts to thoroughly study the role that plants play in climate change mitigation are increasing. Most researchers focus on the promise of large, leafy
forest trees to help remove carbon from the atmosphere; for example Lal (1998) in India, Chen ...
12/5/2013
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Deutsche Bank are financing Vietnamese rubber companies driving a wave of land and
forest "grabs" in Cambodia and Laos, according to a new report and film by Global Witness.
The report, ...
12/5/2013
A ban on the clearing of tropical
forests in Indonesia is on the verge of being extended in a historic deal that could protect some of the
world's most threatened habitats.
Indonesia is home to about a third of the
world's remaining ...
10/5/2013
Plans to protect ecosystems and help people adapt to climate change ? also known as ecosystem-based adaptation (EBA) ? must involve vulnerable groups, including women and communities greatly hit by global warming if they are to succeed, according ...
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 ...
3/5/2013
A famed rainforest in Nicaragua is under growing threat from illegal loggers, say indigenous leaders.
The Bosawas Biosphere Reserve is Central America's largest tropical
forest with clouds constantly drifting over the hilly ...
2/5/2013
While last week was the one-year anniversary of the Redford government, it was also an anniversary of sorts for the Pembina Institute.
Two years ago, we released a road map toward responsible oilsands development that identified 19 key ...
2/5/2013
Equatorial Guinea is not a country that stands very large in the American consciousness. In fact most Americans think you mean Papua New Guinea when you mention it or are simply baffled. When I left for Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea, I also ...
2/5/2013
Five Asian countries have lost nearly one-third of their
forests in the last 35 years and could be left with little more than 10-20% of their original cover by 2030 – with devastating effects on wildlife and humans, a new report ...
28/4/2013
Plans to protect ecosystems and help people adapt to climate change - also known as ecosystem-based adaptation (EBA) - must involve vulnerable groups, including women and communities greatly hit by global warming if they are to succeed, according ...
27/4/2013
As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchill’s
world. Their ...
20/4/2013
While
forests once provided subsistence for local people, for generations clearing
forested land has also been good for global business, providing immediate food security for the
world. Put simply,
forests have been worth more dead than ...
18/4/2013
Chevron Corp. (CVX) helped write the first-in-the-nation rule ordering reduced carbon emissions from cars and trucks. Its biofuels chief spoke at the ceremony where California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the executive order in 2007, the ...
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+) ...
10/4/2013
A curtain of sound envelops the two researchers as they make their way along the side of a mountain in darkness, occasionally hacking their way with a machete to reach the mouth of a small cave.
Peeps, tweets and staccato whistles fill ...
8/4/2013
The earth’s surface is increasingly becoming warmer, too warm that it’s gradually turning into an uncomfortable place for human settlement, yet its man’s activities to blame for his new misery.
Scientists say that greenhouse gases are ...
7/4/2013
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 ...
7/4/2013
Developments in the United States may lead to the adoption of international
forest offsets being permitted in the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). California’s newly launched carbon market is considering allowing offsets from REDD+ programs ...
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 ...
2/4/2013
Costa Rican Ambassador Alvaro Cedeno Molinari says his mission here is to deliver his country`s message on green growth and renewable energy -- and to develop what he describes as a green growth agenda between his country and Japan.
"My ...
29/3/2013
Using the REDD+ mechanism to fight deforestation and climate change involves a complicated and lengthy process that crosses over several sectors. Because of its complex nature, Valentino Shal of the Mopan Maya Indigenous people says ...
25/3/2013
Indonesian lawmakers criticized the
World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) for its inability to stop deforestation in Sumatra, accusing the group of trying to destroy Indonesia’s reputation abroad and hurting the country’s economy.
“Foreign ...
22/3/2013
On the first International Day of
Forests, celebrated Thursday by the United Nations, Jose Graziano da Silva proposed that all countries support a Zero Illegal Deforestation target.
FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva, second ...