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Reduction of emission from deforestation and degradation

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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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January 30, 2010

IMF Proposes "Green Fund" for Climate Change Financing

The world must adopt a low-carbon model for growth as it rebuilds from the global economic crisis, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
  • Strauss-Kahn proposes “Green Fund” to help finance shift to low-carbon world
  • Says IMF to release proposals in a few weeks
  • Fund could be created partly through issuance of IMF’s special drawing rights (SDRs)
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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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03 2010 11:14:26

Forests hold poverty solution

HA NOI — The forestry sector's biggest difficulty is to balance the relationship between hunger elimination and poverty reduction and its development, a conference heard yesterday in Ha Noi.

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Feb 2, 2010

NEPAL: Communities Take Up Cudgels for Forest Conservation

KATHMANDU, Feb 2, 2010 (IPS) - Tired of walking, Shankar Prasad Ghimire, 87, a retired government worker, puts his walking stick aside and takes rest on a vast expanse of lush green land.

Such dramatic backdrop of dense forest cover gives this former bureaucrat reason to be proud. As chairman of the Kafle Community Forest, he helped transform the once dying forest into a 94-hectare green treasure trove in Lamatar village in Lalitpur district, 13 kilometres south-east of Kathmandu.

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by Dr. Radut