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February 2, 2010

President Obama’s budget contributes to fast-start international climate finance

The White House released a proposed budget for 2011 which includes $1.4 billion to helps provide needed investments in developing countries to address the impacts of global warming pollution, shift to a clean energy future, and reduce the loss of tropical rainforests.  The proposed budget repr

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February 07, 2010

The Road Ahead for UN-REDD

The UN-REDD Programme reflects on the successes of 2009, and the challenges and opportunities of extending REDD+ efforts around the world in 2010

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February 07, 2010

Your parents were wrong

The Sierra Club and American Electric Power, the nation’s largest coal-burning utility, don’t agree on much, but there

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February 07, 2010

Forest conservation via REDD may be ineffective without addressing commodity consumption, trade

Commodity trade and urbanization, rather than rural poverty, drive deforestation, reports a new study that looks at the implications for new policy measures to protect forests.

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05-Feb-2010

Programs for Climate Action get underway with $400 m for forests and $300 m for renewables

New Delhi: A $100 million pledge from the Government of Japan has helped to secure the funding base and launch the operational phase of two new climate programs supporting forest management and renewable energy investments in developing countries.

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February 3, 2010

Ghana: Cross River inches toward carbon credit facility

An international forestry monitoring group, Nature Conservation Resource Centre (NCRC) has completed an 11- day study tour of the carbon stock of forest projects in Cross River State in line with the state’s agitatio

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February 3, 2010

Guyana: Climate Change Funds

 

 

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Feb 2, 2010

The financial costs of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD)

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.

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1 February 2010

Can REDD make natural forests competitive with oil palm plantations?

1 February 2010:  The latest issue of the International Tropical Timber Organization’s (ITTO) newsletter, Tropical Forest Update,  includes an article that questions whether payments for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) can make natura

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Wed, 02/03/2010

Govt in the dark about source of Copenhagen funds

The government said it remained in the dark over how to apply for climate change funds that were promised by rich nations at the recent Copenhagen summit.

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