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May 27, 2010

Will REDD Preserve Forests Or Turn into Nightmare?

May 27, 2010 - It could be the cheapest way to save the planet from climate change. Western governments and corporations want to shut down a major source of carbon dioxide emissions by paying the people who destroy forests to desist. But the dream could turn into a nightmare, in which Western polluters use their carbon credits to evade cutting emissions at home, while the promised benefit to the atmosphere is lost in a mire of conflict and corruption.

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May 26, 2010

Global Carbon Market Grows to $144 billion Despite Financial and Economic Turmoil

Cologne, May 26, 2010—The latest annual report from the World Bank on the global carbon market showed that in 2009 it grew to $144 billion, up 6% from 2008 despite enduring its most challenging year to date.  The global economic crisis negatively impacted both demand and supply sides and, as indu

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Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the EU, FLEGT and REDD+

Markus Sommerauer - Thu, 27/05/2010 - 08:30

Editors Note: We wrote that article long time ago - now (July, 2013) the EC is confirming our saying...

July 2013: Study "The impact of EU consumption on deforestation"

Exportierst du schon oder pennst du noch? Eine durchaus berechtigte Frage an Österreichs Holzindustrie...

Markus Sommerauer - Wed, 26/05/2010 - 21:39

26. Mai 2010: Die vor kurzem aufgrund der Wirtschaftskrise lancierte "neue Holzexportstrategie" der österreichischen Holzindustrie, welche kurz gefasst und wörtlich wiedergegeben "sich auf den Vorgarten Österreichs, der Schwarzmeerregion" konzentrieren wird, scheint vor dem Hintergrund der folgenden Pressemeldung zumindest hinterfragenswert:

Environment MEPs get tough on illegal timber trade

Markus Sommerauer - Wed, 26/05/2010 - 10:59

December 2012 - a note by the editor of ForestIndustries.EU:

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24 May 2010

The American Power Act: Trees Fare Well in Latest US Climate Bill

It’s been a good run for trees in climate-change talks, and that run continues with the latest climate bill introduced two weeks ago in the US Senate (read the full discussion draft here).  For proof, just ch

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19 May 2008

REDD for Dummies: A REDD Primer

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.

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24 May 2010

First forest carbon improvement plan approved

US environmental consultancy EcoTrust has won approval for the first carbon offset project methodology in improved forest management (IFM) under the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS). IFM is a relatively new field of carbon crediting activity taking on heightened importance following the widening of the international REDD initiative on deforestation to include forest restoration and sustainable forest management - so called REDD-plus.  

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May 13, 2010

REDD+ in the Post-Copenhagen World: Recommendations for Interim Public Finance

 

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1st January, 2010

Blackwashing: do NGO tactics risk long term public trust?

Instead of making exaggerated claims about species becoming extinct, NGOs could make progress on issues like deforestation by collaborating more closely with companies, claims a new report

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