--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-06-13 09:46 |
The Norwegian Parliament has called for the country’s pension fund to strengthen its commitment to avoid investing in companies linked to rainforest destruction.
Norway’s $700 billion sovereign wealth fund last year stepped up its no-deforestation policy, asking portfolio companies to disclose their impacts on tropical forests as part of the fund’s risk management strategy related to climate change. It divested from 23 palm oil companies found to be...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-06-13 09:25 |
The Norwegian Parliament has called for the country’s pension fund to strengthen its commitment to avoid investing in companies linked to rainforest destruction.
Norway’s $700 billion sovereign wealth fund last year stepped up its no-deforestation policy, asking portfolio companies to disclose their impacts on tropical forests as part of the fund’s risk management strategy related to climate change. It divested from 23 palm oil companies found to be...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2013-06-13 09:06 |
By Steve Zwick, Ecosystem Marketplace, 11 June 2013 | If Christian del Valle is right, the Althelia Climate Fund will make money over the next eight years for the Church of Sweden, the European Investment Bank, the Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation (Finnfund), and the Dutch Development Bank (FMO, Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden). It will do this by investing in certified commodities, sustainable agricultural produce, carbon credits, and other ecosystem-service projects...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-06-13 09:00 |
Managing forests so that wood can be burnt for energy could release large amount of carbon from the soil and increase greenhouse gas emissions, according to a new study. It shows that harvesting forests more intensively disturbs the carbon in the soil – releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Forests are carbon stores. About a third of the world’s global soil carbon is stored in forest soil, and around half of that is in soil derived from minerals...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-06-13 08:52 |
The world’s forests are a net carbon “sink”. Each year they remove more carbon from the atmosphere by photosynthesis than they return via their own respiration, decomposition of dead roots, trunks and leaves, and by forest fires.
That is how the growth and re-growth of forests around the world has slowed climate change in the past century. It has been estimated that between one-third and one-fourth of the total carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-06-13 08:37 |
Incipient initiatives designed to reduce carbon emissions through avoided deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) are also helping to secure forest land tenure in Brazil, a new study has found.
Amy Duchelle and colleagues from the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) have examined four sub-national REDD+ initiatives in three very different states in the Brazilian Amazon, interviewing project proponents and community members about land tenure and local...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-06-13 08:34 |
FCPF has released a journal article which highlights the unique governance structure in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), one that consists of both a national REDD+ fund as well as individual REDD+ projects.
Challenges in the DRC, according to the article, emerge from the fragile nature of national governance and difficulties in linking national and local levels of government. To address these challenges, the article reveals a strong national REDD+ fund that is...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-06-13 08:32 |
Thailand will be the first country in Southeast Asia to launch a project on measuring carbon in forests, according to the National Resources and Environment Ministry.
Ministry permanent secretary Chote Trachu said the Treemaps Project, supported by the World Wildlife Fund and the German government, involves a survey of carbon storage capability of forests in Thailand.
The purpose is to work on a national carbon plan by using LIDAR remote sensing...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-06-13 08:31 |
The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) released a report, titled ‘Integrating REDD+ into a green economy transition,’ which was produced with support from UNEP and UN-REDD.
The study highlights the complimentary objectives of REDD+ and the transition to a green economy with regards to maintaining natural capital while supporting developments. It also stresses the possible efficiencies that could be captured from linking implementation of REDD+ with a shift...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-06-13 08:28 |
Efforts to stop an increase in global temperatures can succeed if policymakers put in place a broad governance structure to oversee REDD+ from which money would trickle down through state-level funding to local projects, according to a new research paper. How best to govern REDD+ is politically disputed, particularly over what role financial markets and governments should play in the scheme.
“National Governance Structures for REDD+”, co-authored by Norwegian University...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2013-06-13 08:27 |
The State government has fixed a conservative target of supplying one crore saplings of different varieties of fruit bearing and economically viable trees under the Agro Forestry Development Plan to farmers to increase the green cover and help farmers earn additional revenue from their agricultural lands.
Additional Chief Conservator of the Forests (Development) B. Shivana Gowda who is in charge of the Agro Forestry Development Plan in the State said in Gulbarga on...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2013-06-13 06:42 |
By Peter Reich, The Conversation, 11 June 2013 | If deforestation continues unabated, and droughts and forest fires become more common, as is expected, then tropical forests could become a large net source of carbon to the atmosphere, heating up the pace of climate change. Disturbances to temperate and boreal forests from climate change-induced droughts, wildfires and windstorms could make the situation even worse. Conversely, if deforestation was to slow in comparison to continued growth of...
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2013-06-13 04:42 |
By Rhett Butler, mongabay.com, 12 June 2013 | The Norwegian Parliament has called for the country's pension fund to strengthen its commitment to avoid investing in companies linked to rainforest destruction. Norway's $700 billion sovereign wealth fund last year stepped up its no-deforestation policy, asking portfolio companies to disclose their impacts on tropical forests as part of the fund's risk management strategy related to climate change. It divested from 23 palm oil companies found to be...
--- Greenwood Investment ---
2013-06-12 18:07 |
The Indonesian government is planning to ban the auctioning of logs that have been seized as a result of illegal logging operations.
--- REDD monitor news ---
2013-06-12 16:00 |
By John Parnell, RTCC Climate Change News, 11 June 2013 | A vital track of the UN climate talks in Bonn has collapsed after nations failed to resolve a dispute over the meeting’s agenda. Eight days into the two week meeting, a proposed addition by Russia to the agenda of the session dealing with the UN’s decision-making process was not accepted. A compromise deal presented to governments in the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI) meeting this morning was rejected by Russia, Ukraine and...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2013-06-12 14:14 |
Kaieteur News, 11 June 2013 | Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh, yesterday refused to disclose any concerns that the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) may hold, regarding the construction of the US$840M Amaila Falls Hydro Electric Project. The Finance Minister was at the time addressing members of the media at the party’s weekly press engagement at Freedom House. He said that the due diligence being conducted by the IDB is at an advanced stage. IDB is investing US$175M. “I wouldn’t want to...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2013-06-12 07:33 |
Forests Policy & Practice (IISD), 10 June 2013 | The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) commissioned a study, titled 'Key Issues in REDD+ Verification,' which explores the different options for REDD+ verification and the impact of the impasse in international negotiations on REDD+ financing and implementation. The study establishes a number of areas of agreement with regard to independent verification including the need to follow guidelines developed by the Intergovernmental...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2013-06-12 07:32 |
Forests Policy & Practice (IISD), June 2013 | The (FCPF) has released a journal article, titled 'Implementing REDD+ in the Democratic Republic of Congo: An Analysis of the Emerging National REDD+ Governance Structure,' which highlights the unique governance structure in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), one that consists of both a national REDD+ fund as well as individual REDD+ projects. Challenges in the DRC, according to the article, emerge from the fragile nature of national...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2013-06-12 07:31 |
Forests Policy & Practice (IISD), 10 June 2013 | The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) released a report, titled 'Integrating REDD+ into a green economy transition,' which was produced with support from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD). The study highlights the complimentary objectives of REDD+ and the transition to a green economy with regards to...
--- Greenwood Investment ---
2013-06-11 15:19 |
A new study has highlighted the relationship between forestry disease, climate change and human activity.
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