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June 2011

  • Issue date: 
    2011-06-21

    REDD in South East Asia: a Political Economy Perspective

  • Issue date: 
    Jun 20, 2011

    Integrating agriculture and forestry in the landscape is key to REDD

  • Issue date: 
    20 June 2011

    2011 Cif Partnership Forum - African Countries Are Ready for Cif Investments (AfDB)

  • Issue date: 
    21 June 2011

    Environmentalists to Be Trained in Forest Monitoring

    Rwandan forest monitoring specialists are set to undergo training in modern techniques to help them implement and improve national forest monitoring programs.

  • Issue date: 
    24/06/2011

    REDD+ AND TENURE: A Review of the Latest Developments in Research, Implementation and Debate

  • Issue date: 
    June 27, 2011

    EU pleased with funded projects in Palawan

    PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Philippines – The European Union is pleased that EU-funded projects for forest protection here is “well-spent.”

  • Issue date: 
    Jun 19, 2011

    ANALYSIS-Hopes fading for climate agreement

    BONN, Germany, June 19 (Reuters) - "Ask for a camel when you expect to get a goat," runs a Somali saying that sums up the fading of ambitions for United Nations talks on slowing climate change -- aim high, but settle for far less.

  • Issue date: 
    June 19, 2011

    Ahead of meeting, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) loses another supporter

    The forest organization, FERN, has pulled its support from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), reports FSC-Watch. FERN has quit the increasingly troubled organization due to FSC pursuing carbon credits through forestry. The FSC loses FERN just weeks before its 6th General Assembly, in which FSC partners—including private corporations and some environmental groups—will meet to debate current practices.

  • Issue date: 
    21 Jun 2011

    Norway, Germany give $90 mln to slow deforestation

    OSLO, June 21 (Reuters) - Norway and Germany announced aid of more than $90 million on Tuesday for World Bank programmes to help slow tropical deforestation that is blamed for stoking climate change.

  • Issue date: 
    21 Jun 2011

    Japan solicits ‘REDD+’ projects under bilateral scheme

    Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Meti) said on Monday that it has begun to solicit avoided deforestation, as well as other projects aimed at reducing non-energy related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, under a bilateral offset mechanism.
     
  • Issue date: 
    22 June 2011

    President Jagdeo and German President focus on global efforts to combat climate change

  • Issue date: 
    June 17, 2011

    Our forests, our life

  • Issue date: 
    June 15, 2011

    Gunns dips despite $10m mill sale

    THE reshaping of Tasmania's forests industry is set to reach a milestone with the sale of a strategic Gunns woodchip mill.

  • Issue date: 
    June 15, 2011

    Carbon credit pitch sunk

    A PROPOSAL to keep Tasmania's native forests standing in exchange for billions in carbon credits has been rejected by the State Government, Liberal Opposition and Forestry Tasmania.



by Dr. Radut