REDD for Dummies
Australien Geographic |
vor 1 Jahr 27 Wochen
AMONG THE MANY NASTY things that humans are doing to the environment, few rank worse than destroying tropical forests. Rainforests sustain an astonishing diversity of species and keep our planet liveable by limiting soil erosion, reducing floods, maintaining natural water cycles, and stabilising...
vor 1 Jahr 28 Wochen
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Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ for Dummies
vor 1 Jahr 29 Wochen
July, 19, 2010 - The EU (the European Parliament) has approved legislation which prohibits the sale of timber logged illegally under the rules of the country of origin. In addition, companies must use a system of 'due diligence' to ascertain that the timber they sell in the EU was harvested...
Ecosystem Market Place |
vor 1 Jahr 36 Wochen
In 2007, more than 50,000 fires raged through the Brazilian Amazon, reducing what were once lush rainforests to charred plains stretching to the horizon. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, fires on the island of Borneo consumed millions of hectares of old-growth forests.
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ for Dummies
World Resources Institute |
vor 1 Jahr 37 Wochen
Background on REDD
Tags: Deforestation, Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ for Dummies
Carbon Watch |
vor 1 Jahr 37 Wochen
What is REDD?
Tags: Deforestation, Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ for Dummies
SCIDEV |
vor 1 Jahr 38 Wochen
Below is a directory of terms used in the debate about reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). Most of the terms have been reproduced from the UN University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS), the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), and the...
Tags: REDD+ for Dummies
Pambazuka News |
vor 1 Jahr 40 Wochen
All carbon is not created equal: One ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) generated in New York from several McDonalds burgers, for instance, clocking in at 16kg per 1kg of meat, is not the equivalent of one ton of CO2 emitted in a country like South Africa, where energy generated from coal provides...
Tags: Deforestation, Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ for Dummies
UN-REDD |
vor 1 Jahr 44 Wochen
The UN-REDD Programme releases its inaugural Year in Review report for 2009.
Tags: Deforestation, Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ for Dummies
The Nature Conservancy and The Royal Society |
vor 1 Jahr 48 Wochen
By Reimund Schwarze, John O. Niles, and Jacob Olander
Tags: REDD+ for Dummies
IUCN |
vor 2 Jahre 3 Tage
This study reviews the financial costs of abating greenhouse gas emissions through reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). It is written from the perspective of an institutional investor seeking cost-effective climate mitigation options.
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ for Dummies
The Enterprise Capenews |
vor 2 Jahre 1 Woche
It’s been a month after COP 15, the UN Climate Change conference that was supposed to give the world a new system for reducing carbon emissions. A month to reflect, regroup, and respond to this reporter’s questions about what happened, and what didn’t, in Copenhagen.
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ for Dummies
vor 2 Jahre 3 Wochen
TREES are one of the most efficient systems of carbon capture and storage on the planet. They breathe in carbon dioxide and breathe out oxygen, locking the carbon into their roots, trunk, branches, twigs and leaves and the soil. They are so good at this that about 20% of the greenhouse gases...
Mongabay |
vor 2 Jahre 6 Wochen
Primary forest loss The following section is a quantitative look at primary forest loss. More than seven million hectares of primary forest were lost on an annual basis between 2000 and 2005, the most recent period for which data is available from the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization....
Tags: Deforestation, REDD+, Abholzung, REDD+ for Dummies, Forestry
Mongabay |
vor 2 Jahre 31 Wochen
June 29, 2009: A New Idea to Save Tropical Forests Takes Flight and then in 2005, a small group of countries changed everything. Papua New Guinea teamed up with Costa Rica and a handful of other countries to make a formal plea to the United Nations.
The Guardian |
vor 2 Jahre 31 Wochen
This is a series of articles (started here, June, 1st 2009) taken from GRIST, Offsets are still counterfeit carbon credits The arguments in favor of counterfeit carbon credits still fail no matter how often they are repeated