14 countries win REDD funding to protect tropical forests
MongaBay | 24 July 2008
ourteen countries have been selected by the World Bank to receive funds for conserving their tropical forests under an innovative carbon finance scheme. The 14 developing countries include six in Africa (the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar); five in [...]
Archive for July, 2008
News: 14 countries selected for WB REDD funds
Posted in africa, asia, latin america, world bank on 31 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
News: FRA 2010 survey
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FAO place the spotlight on forest monitoring
Environmental Expert | 16 July 2008
SPAIN: Earlier this year, countries and FAO reconfirmed their commitment to jointly prepare the next Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA), a comprehensive data collection on the state of the world’s forests which is scheduled for release in 2010. As part of the FRA 2010, [...]
News: IIED says WB should step back from GFP
Posted in recent research, world bank on 31 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
World Bank told to step back from forest reform
Carbon Positive | 16 July 2008
NETHERLANDS: Forestry experts agree on the need for a new global partnership to ensure sustainable forests initiatives deliver on environmental needs and work for the poor. But they say the World Bank, which last year proposed the collaboration, should not take an [...]
Research: RRI reports last great global land grab
Posted in recent research on 31 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Record Land Grab Predicted As Demand Soars For New Sources Of Food, Energy And Wood Fiber
Science Daily | 15 July 2008
Escalating global demand for fuel, food and wood fibre will destroy the world’s forests, if efforts to address climate change and poverty fail to empower the billion-plus forest-dependent poor, according to two reports just released [...]
Research: Mitigating Climate Change By Improving Forest Management In The Tropics
Posted in asia, recent research on 31 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Putz et al. Improved Tropical Forest Management for Carbon Retention. PLoS Biology, 2008; 6 (7): e166 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060166
A key aspect of the international climate change agreement slated to replace the Kyoto Protocol in 2012 focuses on reducing carbon emissions due to deforestation and degradation (REDD). But most REDD discussions focus on tropical deforestation while ignoring [...]
Research: PNAS study finds carbon trading not helpful to biodiversity
Posted in biodiversity, incentives, north america, recent research on 31 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Carbon payments may not protect biodiversity
EurekaAlert | 7 July 2008
USA: Paying rural landowners in Oregon’s Willamette Basin to protect at-risk animals won’t necessarily mean that their newly conserved trees and plants will absorb more carbon from the atmosphere and vice versa, a new study has found. The study “Efficiency of Incentives to Jointly Increase Carbon [...]
News: Analysis Indonesia – balancing coal and forests
Posted in asia, assessment, carbon trading on 31 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Indonesia aims to balance coal and forests
Reuters | 7 July 2008
FRANCE: Indonesia, the world’s number one coal exporter and a major greenhouse gas emitter, is struggling with conflicting green and growth aims. The world’s fourth-most populous country, with 226 million people spread across 17,500 islands, needs a substantial growth in electricity production to fuel economic [...]
