EL MIRADOR, Guatemala — Great sweeps of Guatemalan rain forest, once the cradle of one of the world’s great civilizations, are being razed to clear land for cattle-ranching drug barons. Other parts of the Maya Biosphere Reserve, Central America’s largest protected area, have been burned down by...
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New York Times |
14 years 8 months ago
American Carbon Registry |
14 years 8 months ago
The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a non-profit enterprise of Winrock International, welcomes feedback from its members, project proponents and other interested parties on the ACR Methodology for REDD – Avoiding Planned Deforestation. This methodology is applicable only to the REDD sub-...
Carbon Positive |
14 years 8 months ago
Tucked away on the bottom of the world, New Zealand is showing bigger developed nations how its done when it comes to tackling greenhouse-gas emissions and climate change. The first jurisdiction outside Europe to take the plunge on a nation-wide mandatory carbon pricing scheme, New Zealand has gone...
The Guardian |
14 years 8 months ago
Call it a hot topic. A study suggesting that intentional forest blazes could significantly cut carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from wildfires in the Western United States has prompted a piquant scholarly quarrel. The exchange highlights the challenge forest managers may face in balancing plans to...
Ecosystem Marketplace |
14 years 8 months ago
The Copenhagen Accord recognized the need for a mechanism to funnel money into projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation while promoting conservation, enhancement of forest carbon stocks and sustainable forest management (REDD+). Maria Bendana digs...
Carbon Positive |
14 years 8 months ago
The latest session of UN climate talks in Bonn last week have only consolidated widespread apprehension that the 194 nations are still years away from their goal – a new comprehensive climate agreement to limit global warming to plus-2 degrees or perhaps less.
BBC |
14 years 8 months ago
Last year, there seemed to be an unwritten rule in enviro-circles: whenever two or more enviro-folks were gathered together in a place of meeting, talk must turn to biochar. Accounts would be exchanged of articles half-read and half-digested...the pros would be arrayed against the cons...the words...
UN-REDD |
14 years 8 months ago
Peter Holmgren, Director of Climate, Energy and Tenure Division and UN-REDD Programme Coordinator at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), explains the challenges ahead and key steps when it comes to setting-up a national monitoring system for REDD+.
UN-REDD |
14 years 9 months ago
UNDP Programme Officer, Samuli Leminen, highlights REDD+ progress in Zambia since the UN-REDD Programme Policy Board approved US$4.5 million for the country’s national REDD+ strategy. “In recognition of the role REDD+ can plan in reducing emissions and facilitating sustainable socio-economic...
Triple Pundit |
14 years 9 months ago
The winds of change are blowing across the climate change policy landscape. With legislation stalled in the Senate, attention now shifts to state and regional initiatives. In California, the Global Warming Solutions Act, better known as AB32 and passed in 2006, establishes a statewide mandate...
Vanguard Nigeria |
14 years 9 months ago
To boost its afforestation programme, the Taraba Government is to raise 20 million seedlings by 2015. Mr Timothy Kataps, the Commissioner for Environment and Urban Development, announced this on Thursday in Lankavir during the official launching of the 2010 Tree Planting Campaign. He said the...
Stocks and Land |
14 years 9 months ago
A PIONEERING attempt to provide landholders with a new income stream through forestry offsets, Landcare CarbonSmart, has fallen foul of the Canberra stalemate over emissions regulation. Set up by Landcare Australia Limited, in part to help landholders put in smaller biodiverse plantings that could...
Eko-Eco |
14 years 9 months ago
With the fall of the US federal climate bill, eyes are shifting west to California's Air Resources Board (ARB) as it nears the November release of its cap-and-trade regulations under AB32. On Friday, the Board met with stakeholders about inclusion of reduced emission from deforestation and...
FAO |
14 years 9 months ago
As part of the Interim REDD+ Partnership (www.oslocfc2010.no) a Voluntary REDD+ Database is to be developed.
Huffington Post |
14 years 9 months ago
Can forest-rich countries learn from the mistakes of extractive projects and avoid unleashing their own resource curse? For poor developing countries, exploiting natural wealth such as minerals and metals should prove a blessing, offering the potential to generate huge revenues and help lift...
International Institute for Environment and Development |
14 years 9 months ago
With concerns over climate change rising, there have been several initiatives aimed at reducing the impacts and contributing factors of climate change. But with millions and potentially billions of dollars at stake, how successful will these initiatives be in mitigating climate change?
Field |
14 years 9 months ago
BRIEFING PAPER The Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA) and the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG-KP), 2-6 August 2010, Bonn: FIELD has prepared this briefing paper to assist developing...
The Himalayan Times |
14 years 9 months ago
KATHMANDU: The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development today launched a Project Management Unit (PMU) in Kathmandu to coordinate and manage a project for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in community forests. The four-year project (2009-2013)...