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AllAfrica | 12/09-13
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group on Wednesday, September 11, 2013 in Tunis approved a US $21.50-million Forest Investment Program (FIP) grant to finance climate change mitigation activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Mongabay | 12/09-13
One-hundred and fifty years after a treaty with England granted the Miskito people rights over their land--a treaty which was never fully respected--the government of Honduras has officially handed over nearly a million hectares (970,000 hectares) of tropical forest along the Caribbean Coast to the indigenous people.
WWF | 12/09-13
As Brazil's new climate change panel underlined the severity of expected climate impacts to the country, WWF-Brazil called on the government to respond with policies that reduced climate related costs and damage.
La Nacion | 11/09-13
La presidenta Laura Chinchilla y el ministro de Ambiente, René Castro, firmaron ayer el Decreto Ejecutivo (DAJ-62-2012-MINAE) que crea la Junta de Carbono, una figura que pondrá a funcionar el nuevo mercado.
Eco News | 11/09-13 06:17
Poland, which has the presidency of this year's United Nations COP19 summit, is aiming for a pathway to a global carbon emissions deal in 2015.
...end the summit with decisions on reducing emissions from forest degradation (REDD), land use and agriculture. RTCC reports the Warsaw summit ,
JC Magazine | 11/09-13 07:31
Pacífico Peruano Suiza Compañía de Seguros y Reaseguros se convierte hoy en la primera empresa peruana en adquirir bonos de carbono generados en dos áreas naturales protegidas ubicadas en el departamento de Madre de Dios: la Reserva Nacional Tambopata y el Parque Nacional Bahuaja Sonene. ...Gamboa Moquillaza; la empresa se une a la iniciativa de proyectos REDD (Reducción de Emisiones de Deforestación y Degradación de bosques ) que..
EBRD | 11/09-13
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has issued a US$ 250 million bond, aimed specifically at institutional investors seeking to support environmentally sustainable projects.
The Guardian | 11/09-13
The Hollywood actor Harrison Ford has been accused of "harassing state institutions" in Indonesia and threatened with deportation after allegedly confronting a minister during an interview about illegal logging and climate change.
Instituto Carbono Brasil | 10/09-13
A próxima Conferência das Partes das Nações Unidas sobre mudanças climáticas (COP 19) será realizada entre 11 e 22 de novembro em Varsóvia, na Polônia, e muitas informações sobre o evento já podem ser encontradas em um novo portal publicado nesta semana.
Herald Online | 10/09-13
Brazil's Paiter Suruí indigenous people today announced the formation of a groundbreaking partnership with Natura Cosméticos designed to slow climate change by saving endangered rainforest and sequestering carbon in trees.
Mongabay | 07/09-13
The REDD+ agency, established by a decree from President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Friday, is a ministry-level body that will coordinate a national REDD+ strategy between various ministries that influence and control land use policy across the sprawling archipelago.
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UN-REDD | 08-13
In the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, a paper by Sango Mahanty and colleagues revisits the thorny issue of property in the context of forest carbon. Can it ever truly be 'owned'?The authors identify a series of contentious and legally ambiguous processes that must be negotiated once we assume that forest carbon is a tradable commodity. First, of course, is clarification of tenure, and whether formal property rights or more customary tenure arrangements are suitable.
CIFOR/CGIAR | 07-13
Los precios fluctuantes del petróleo y una mayor preocupación
por el cambio climático han llevado a un compromiso renovado sobre la energía renovable -principalmente
en los países industrializados- encaminado a ampliar la producción y utilización de la primera generación de biocombustibles líquidos procedentes de cultivos tales como el aceite de palma, la caña de azúcar, la soja y la jatrofa para el transporte.
IGES | 06-13
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies has just released an updated country overview on REDD+ readiness activities in Cambodia.
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UNFCCC | 07/09-13
The UNFCCC secretariat invites you to participate in a contest aimed at highlighting the benefits of the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism and the importance of market-based approaches in the international response to climate change.
People and Forest | 09-13
The past month in community forestry news includes a mix of both positive steps forward as well some setbacks. RECOFTC and partners met with government departments working in forestry in Myanmar to discuss potential areas for collaboration.
SNV | 08-13
In this third edition of the REDD+ Corner we share developments in the safeguards roadmap for Vietnam's National REDD+ Action Programme (NRAP). The roadmap centres upon a gap analysis of Vietnam's existing policies, laws and regulations (PLR) that might contribute to ensuring consistency with international policy commitments on REDD+ safeguards made under the UNFCCC.
NAMA Partnership | 06/09-13
The NAMA-Wiki is a platform created as an initiative of the NAMA-Partnership, open to anyone involved and/or interested to know more about Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs).
WWF | 24/09-13
Free. Dr. Ian Thompson, a research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service, will discuss his recent co-authored publication, An Operational Framework for Defining and Monitoring Forest Degradation. The work was conducted with an international group as requested by the Collaborative Partnership in Forests, which includes several United Nations organizations, such as FAO, CBD, and UNFF.
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