New UN scheme seeks to combat climate change from deforestation
United Nations | 24 September 2008
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced a pioneering initiative aimed at combating climate change through creating incentives to reverse the trend of deforestation, at an unveiling with Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg.
The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation [...]
Archive for September, 2008
News: UN-REDD Programme launched
Posted in fao, funding, global, news items, un-redd, undp on 24 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
News: Indigenous People ask to be included in the REDD debate
Posted in carbon trading, news items, stewardship on 22 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Indigenous Groups Criticize Climate Talks
Worldwatch Institute | 22 September 2008
As international climate negotiations move closer to including forests in the successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, indigenous and traditional peoples realize they have either a lot to gain or everything to lose. If industrialized countries are allowed to purchase the carbon rights of forests, groups [...]
Research: Making REDD work for the Poor
Posted in carbon trading, funding, incentives, recent research on 10 September 2008 | 1 Comment »
Making REDD work for the Poor Leo Peskett, David Huberman, Evan Bowen-Jone, Guy Edwards and Jessica Brown
Poverty Environment Partnership, September 2008
Poor forest-dependent communities figure significantly in various REDD proposals, which, as a recent Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP) paper explains, “are all based on the idea that developed countries would pay developing countries to reduce rates [...]
