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USD 62 million to Nepal Government Multi-Stakeholder Forestry Programme

The Multi-Stakeholder Forestry Programme is the product of the first multistakeholder design process to be undertaken in Nepal’s forestry sector. The Programme will build on the achievements of over 20 years of forestry work of the Government of Nepal supported by the UK, Switzerland and Finland. The Programme is designed for 10 years and to be implemented in two phases. NRs 4.45 billion has been agreed as joint grant funding assistance by these three donors for an initial 4 years.

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
1/30/2012
Publisher Name: 
Forestry Nepal
Publisher-Link: 
http://www.forestrynepal.org
Autor: 
Bimala Rai Paudyal

A word from Hon. Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources

The Honourable Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources, today addressed representatives of Canada’s forest industry at a luncheon speech at PaperWeek 2012 in Montreal.

The Minister highlighted the importance of partnerships, innovation and market expansion to the future of Canada’s forest industry in helping to sustain jobs in rural communities across the country.

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Issue date: 
February 1st, 2012
Publisher Name: 
ForestTalk
Publisher-Link: 
http://foresttalk.com/

Indigenous communities make a list of “do’s and don’ts” for forest conservation schemes

Indigenous and community groups have made a wish-list detailing how schemes that aim to reduce deforestation and forest degradation should work for those living in and amongst the forest.

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Issue date: 
January 20, 2012
Publisher Name: 
CIFOR
Publisher-Link: 
http://blog.cifor.org/
Autor: 
Michelle Kovacevic
Author e-Mail: 
http://blog.cifor.org/author/michelle-kovacevic/

What Will Save Our Forests?

In this article I wrote for Earth Island Journal earlier this year detailing the fatal flaws of the climate mitigation scheme known as REDD (for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), I quoted World Bank President Robert Zoellick as calling REDD, “the best chance, perhaps the last chance, to save the world’s forests.”

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Issue date: 
December 2, 2011
Publisher Name: 
Earth Island Journal
Publisher-Link: 
http://www.earthisland.org/
Autor: 
Jeff Conant
Author e-Mail: 
http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/oeuvre/jeff-conant/

UN forest protection scheme heading in wrong direction

“The outcome on REDD safeguards is a step backwards from what was agreed in Cancun last year, which itself was far short of what could have been agreed in Copenhagen. The provisions for safeguards in forest conservation are being shredded”, says Raja Jarrah, CARE’s Senior Advisor on REDD.

"This is bad news for millions of indigenous people and local communities whose livelihoods depend on forests.”

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Issue date: 
05 December 2011
Publisher Name: 
WWF-Panda
Publisher-Link: 
http://wwf.panda.org

Code of Conduct for working with Indigenous and Local Communities

Research related to tropical rainforests involves field-based data collection. Much of this information gathering takes place in territories occupied by indigenous and other forest-based communities. Members of these communities are often used as sources of information for a wide range of topics, including the local use of plants and animals, and conditions of soil, water and forests. This information is often referred to as indigenous or local knowledge.

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Issue date: 
November 30, 2011
Publisher Name: 
Forest Carbon Asia
Publisher-Link: 
http://www.forestcarbonasia.org/

Amazonian indigenous peoples against REDD

Peruvian indigenous organizations along with the Forest Peoples Program, an international non-profit that defends the rights of native forest-dwelling peoples, said in a recent report that carbon emission reduction programs tied to the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, or REDD, a United Nations-led program, are hurting indigenous rights.

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Issue date: 
11/30/2011
Publisher Name: 
LAPress
Publisher-Link: 
http://lapress.org/

Coast Tsimshian Resources signs contract to sell logs to Chinese company

Coast Tsimshian Resources has signed a contract to sell 150,000 cubic metres of logs to Fujian Hijong Wood Industry Co. Ltd. of Putian, China.

Wayne Drury, Coast Tsimshian’s general manager, said of cutting and shipping the logs to fulfill the contract will provide work to support 150 families in B.C.’s northwest for almost one year.

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Issue date: 
November 25th, 2011
Publisher Name: 
Forest Talk
Publisher-Link: 
http://foresttalk.com/

No World Bank public awareness funds for Amerindians

The World Bank has said that it is no longer providing the National Toshaos Council (NTC) with the funds to educate Amerindians about the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).
This was confirmed yesterday by Yvonne Pearson, who heads the NTC.

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Issue date: 
November 5, 2011
Publisher Name: 
Kaieteur News Online
Publisher-Link: 
http://www.kaieteurnewsonline.com

Pilot Forest Carbon Trust Fund: Rewarding local communities for forest conservation

This is the first Forest Carbon Trust Fund in Nepal, and lessons learnt from this pilot project will be vital for understanding what kind of governance system will be required for implementing REDD+ at the national level when communities are actively involved in forest management. The project will also contribute to global learning on how to build the capacity of local stakeholders in implementing carbon offsets so that when a REDD policy is finally agreed upon, local communities will be in a position to make informed decisions.

External Reference/Copyright
Issue date: 
10 November, 2011
Publisher Name: 
ForestCarbon Asia
Publisher-Link: 
http://www.forestcarbonasia.org/
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