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March 2011

  • Issue date: 
    March 21, 2011

    Where does the future lie for forestry?

    This year’s World Forestry Day is special, as 2011 is also the International Year of Forests.

  • Issue date: 
    25th March, 2011

    Palm oil giants target Africa in 'land grab' following Indonesia deforestation ban

    Indonesia's move to bring in a two-year moratorium on new palm oil plantations to protect its remaining rainforests has seen agribusiness giants like Sime Darby switch expansion plans to Cameroon, Ghana and Liberia

  • Issue date: 
    25 March 2011

    PUMA purchases VCS certified REDD forestry credits

  • Issue date: 
    21st March 2011

    Impacts of REDD-plus in Southeast Asia

  • Issue date: 
    21st March 2011

    Global Witness’s role on the UN-REDD Policy Board

    This page contains further information on the UN-REDD Policy Board and documents relating to UN-REDD, including Global Witness’ reviews of proposed national REDD+ programmes and reports from Policy Board meetings.

  • Issue date: 
    24 March 2011

    Kenyans Soft-Launch New Carbon Exchange

    24 March 2011 | NAIROBI | As Europe’s carbon registries slowly reopen after the more vulnerable among them were hacked in January, a new exchange – the African Carbon Exchange (ACX) – was soft-launched here on Thursday.

  • Issue date: 
    Mar, 27 2011

    Ecuador, not Nigeria, grabs $4m UN-REDD fund

    Nigeria’s high expectations at accessing funds to effectively kickstart its National Programme for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) were somewhat dashed last week in far away Da Lat, Viet Nam, where a gathering of experts took stock of the climate change mitigation strategy.

    But an innovative interim funding grant to the nation along with hopes for a better tomorrow seems to serve as a welcome consolation to the beleaguered delegates.

  • Issue date: 
    March 22nd, 2011

    Log shortage halts work for many in British Columbia

    Arnold Bercov, president of the Pulp, Paper and Woodworkers of Canada Local 8, is very concerned that shipping raw logs out of British Columbia is coming at a cost to many local mills.

  • Issue date: 
    21 March 2011

    Systematic Use of Fertilizers Can Save Forests, Fight Climate Change - Study

  • Issue date: 
    24 March 2011

    The Russian forests are at the focus and under close examination

  • Issue date: 
    14 March 2011

    International: Biodiversity And Livelihoods - REDD-plus Benefits

    The importance of biodiversity and livelihood aspects within the design of REDD-plus has been recognized at many levels. Achieving these multiple benefits will require new levels of collaboration among different actors at national and international levels.

  • Issue date: 
    03/16/11

    Green Injustice: Environmentalists practice Corporate Social Irresponsibility

    It's trendy to talk about "corporate social responsibility." The idea is companies have obligations beyond making a profit for their shareholders or creating products and services that their customers want; they have responsibilities to wider society as well.

  • Issue date: 
    March 16, 2011

    5 Actors, 5 Trends, a Continent of Complexity

  • Issue date: 
    March 15, 2011

    IETA Launches Publication Series and Two New Papers on REDD+



by Dr. Radut