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2013-06-09 09:50 |
By Ed King, RTCC Climate Change News, 7 June 2013 | The world’s main system of carbon trading needs urgent support from governments if it is to continue functioning effectively and give developing countries access to green technologies. The UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has 6900 registered projects in 86 countries, and has issued 1.3 billion certified emission reductions (CERs) since its launch. One CER is the equivalent to a tonne of carbon dioxide. But falling demand for these...
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2013-06-09 09:48 |
By Lini Wollenberg, Climate Change Policy & Practice (IISD), 6 June 2013 | Although UNFCCC negotiations on agriculture are on hold, agricultural mitigation is already an objective for many developing countries. National governments are moving quickly to plan agricultural development that also leads to climate change adaptation and mitigation, which is crucial in a sector that is so vulnerable to climate impacts, but also responsible for 14 to 24% of global emissions. As a result, new policy...
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2013-06-09 09:47 |
Congo Basin Forest Partnership, June 2013 | It was in Kigali, Rwanda, that the sensitization and training trailer of the FAO project named “National Monitoring System and Measurement, Notification and Verification (MNV) following a regional Approach” made a stop for the holding of the first national workshop from 28 to 29 May 2013 in Rwanda. Co-organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources and FAO, this workshop was primarily aimed at contributing to the ownership of the REDD+ process and of...
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2013-06-09 09:45 |
By Kristi Foster, World Agroforestry Centre, 7 June 2013 | “Trees are history books,” says Aster Gebrekirstos, a scientist with the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF). “Just ask a tree what conditions were like in the past and it can tell you about rainfall, temperature, river flow, the frequency of wildfires, and about how much and how fast it grew.” Using dendrochronology—the science of analyzing and dating tree growth rings—Gebrekirstos and colleagues at ICRAF and partner institutions are...
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2013-06-09 09:44 |
Sierra Leone News, 6 June 2013 | The Sustainable and Thriving Environment for West Africa Regional Development (STEWARD) has on Wednesday 5th June 2013 held its second Capital Forum in which it was revealed that the adverse effects of climate change could be mitigated through the implementation of a system called the Payment Ecosystem Services. It was noted that this system is a sure way of enhancing forest conservation to reduce carbon emission. The Project Communications Manager, Cathleen...
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2013-06-09 09:42 |
By Alex Chadwick and Christopher Johnson, Living on Earth, 31 May 2013 | CHADWICK: Congo Basin still shelters poster species – and many of them – with the critter charisma to flutter conservation hearts around the world, which they do. The Ngoyla-Mintom Forest is in the Central Africa, but just barely. It’s on the northwest rim of the Congo Basin. Christopher and I first learned about this forest from a California engineer and business consultant who retired early to follow a passion. His name...
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2013-06-09 09:09 |
Profoco, 5 June 2013 | Profoco project partner Carbon Planet have announced news that all of their projects are undergoing development that will bring about complaince with rigorous new REDD+ Social & Environmental Standards. Profoco are committed to meeting the highest attainable standards of accountability, reporting and ethical practice throughout all of their operations. The introduction of the new standards will provide a further framework within which Profoco can clearly demonstrate...
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2013-06-09 09:08 |
foresteurope.org, June 2013 | Within the framework of the Spanish co-chairmanship of REDD + Partnership during the first half of 2013, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment organized a Conference on Forests, Climate Change and REDD + that was attended by Eduardo Rojas, Director of Forestry FAO, Ministry authorities, including Mr. Jose Maria Solano; and officers of the Spanish Climate Change Office as well as representatives from the business sector, academia and civil society....
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2013-06-09 09:03 |
AFP, 8 June 2013 | Procedural protests by Russia held up part of the UN climate talks on Friday for the fifth successive day, according to frustrated delegates at the labyrinthine negotiations in Bonn. Russia has been blocking a key technical panel whose work feeds into the 12-day negotiation round. The Russians, supported by Belarus and Ukraine, are demanding a debate on how decisions are agreed at the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the 20-year forum for addressing global...
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2013-06-09 09:02 |
By Andrew Allan, Reuters, 7 June 2013 | The number of new projects seeking permission to produce U.N. carbon credits by cutting emissions in poorer nations hit a seven year low in May, according to data from a United Nations research agency, further evidence that carbon finance is drying up. Just six projects applied for United Nations validation under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in May, the lowest level since January 2006, when banks, energy companies and governments poured money...
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2013-06-09 08:55 |
By Zinta Zommers, The Dallas Morning News, 7 June 2013 | While REDD+ was conceived as a simple idea to keep trees standing, it is threatened by the world’s powerful addiction to illegal logging... It’s brutally hard to follow REDD+ money. There are at least 15 multilateral and bilateral funds that contribute to REDD+ projects, such as the Amazon Fund, the Congo Basin Fund and the Forest Carbon Partnership. Donor states often announce large transfers of money to these funds but then deliver much...
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2013-06-09 08:35 |
Esri Video, 4 June 2013 | Haimwant Persaud of the Guyana Forestry Commission discusses Guyana’s system for monitoring forest carbon emissions.
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2013-06-08 17:01 |
The new Komatsu 845 forwarder is not a machine, it’s a menu.
“We’ve designed it so that customers around the world can get the right machine for their needs,” explains product manager Kjell Rönnholm.
The Komatsu 845 had its world premiere at Elmia Wood 2013. The machine is an eight-wheeled thinning forwarder that can load 12 tonnes. The innovations can be found in the...
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2013-06-08 12:44 |
By John Upton, Grist, 5 June 2013 | More than 40 national governments and 20 states or other “sub-national” governments are now charging polluters for emitting greenhouse gases, or plan to start in the coming years, according to a new report from the World Bank. The U.S., of course, is not one of the countries with a national cap-and-trade plan or carbon tax, but California and parts of New England are pushing ahead despite Congress’ refusal to act. All in all, about 7 percent of the world’s...
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2013-06-08 12:42 |
VietNamNet, 6 June 2013 | The project monitoring report of Gold Standard organization showed that in the period from June 2010 to the end of 2012, the biogas program issued 510,952 emission credits, which meant that 510,952 tons of CO2 was reduced, thanks the project implementation in Vietnam. This is really an encouraging result for the 10-year implementation of the project. The national biogas project has been carried out in Vietnam by the Dutch organization SNV and the Ministry of...
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2013-06-08 12:41 |
By Matt Brann, ABC News, 6 June 2013 | An Indigenous fire abatement project in the Northern Territory has just sold over $517,000 worth of carbon credits to oil refiner Caltex Australia. Managed by the Indigenous Land Corporation (ILC), the Fish River Station project, south of Darwin, generates its credits through an early-season burning methodology that reduces the frequency of late season wildfires. ILC operations manager Shaun Ansell says over the last two years the fire project has...
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2013-06-08 12:39 |
Sustainable Plant, 5 June 2013 | The U.S. coal and logging industries are booming thanks to exports to Europe. Alternatives to these two fuels are much more expensive in Europe. At the same time, the carbon credit price has fallen to insignificance. The result is a great incentive for European power plants to burn solid fuels, according to McIlvaine’s “Fossil & Nuclear Power Generation: World Analysis & Forecast.” The impacts on industrial boilers, flue gas desulfurization (FGD), DeNOx...
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2013-06-08 12:37 |
By Ewa Krukowska & Mathew Carr, Bloomberg, 6 June 2013 | The European Union’s regulatory arm proposed to set the quota for international carbon credits at the lowest level allowed by law after imports aggravated a record glut of permits in the EU emissions-trading system. Participants in the world’s biggest carbon market will be entitled between 2008 and 2020 to use United Nations’ credits totaling up to 11 percent of the EU permits granted to them for free in 2008-2012, according to a...
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2013-06-08 12:35 |
ABS-CBN News, 5 June 2013 | Two environmental projects in the Philippines will receive a total of P720 million in grants from the German government. Environment Secretary Ramon Paje and German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) Regional Director Philippines and the Pacific Robert Kressirer signed the agreements for the National REDD+ System Philippines and the Protected Area Management Enhancement in the Philippines (PAME) on Wednesday. “These projects support our commitments under...
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2013-06-08 12:30 |
By Martyn Bowen and Sissel Waage, GreenBiz.com, 4 June 2013 | What are corporate leaders to do once they realize that their environmental impacts are significant and undercutting the very structure and function of the green infrastructure upon which we all rely? Honestly, business leaders will need to roll up their sleeves and begin to think about aspirational goals and systemic innovation around products, services and business models. In the interim, while significant innovation is underway,...
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