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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 10 Jan '14
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News Articles
     
AFP |  09/01-14
An Indonesian court has ordered a palm oil company to pay almost $30 million to the state for illegally clearing peatland in a "historic" ruling, lawyers said Thursday. The Meulaboh district court on Sumatra island ruled late Wednesday that Indonesian company Kallista Alam had illegally burnt vegetation on 1,000 hectares (2,500 acres) of peatland in Aceh province to clear it for a palm oil plantation.
  
El Regional Piura |  09/01-14
Madre de Dios. En un operativo conjunto realizado por diversas autoridades a orillas de los ríos Tambopata y Malinowski, dentro de la Reserva Nacional del Tambopata, en la región de Madre de Dios, se intervino 13 embarcaciones fluviales, tipo balsas, dedicadas a la minería ilegal.
  
CIFOR |  09/01-14
The economic and political conditions in Peru favor an increase in deforestation, despite the country having set a target of zero net deforestation by 2021, a new study shows. Official figures put Peru's forest cover at about 73 million hectares, equivalent to about 60 percent of its land area. The deforestation rate of 0.15 percent is relatively low, although deforestation accounts for almost half of the country's greenhouse gas emissions.
  
Mongabay.com |  09/01-14
Worldwide, large swaths of land lay barren in the wake of agricultural expansion, and as global forest cover continues to decline, carbon and water cycles, biodiversity, and human health are impacted. But efforts to restore abandoned pastures and agricultural plots back into functioning forest ecosystems are often hindered by high costs and time requirements. Fortunately, scientists have developed a new method for a more cost effective solution to forest restoration, the establishment of 'tree islands.' 
  
Thomson Reuters Foundation |  08/01-14
The recent appointment of a new head for Indonesia's fledgling REDD+ Agency, tasked with reducing climate-changing emissions from deforestation, is expected to accelerate tree planting and other efforts to protect forests in the Southeast Asian nation, as well as raising more funds for this work.
  
The Guardian |  08/01-14
Indigenous communities in Indonesia are using GPS technology to demarcate the boundaries of their ancestral lands, a move many believe could also help mitigate the negative effects of climate change.
  
CIFOR |  07/01-14
The best place to look for clues about potential drought in the Amazon forests of Peru is on the other side of South America, off the shores of Brazil in the Atlantic Ocean, according to scientists.During the past 10 years, rising sea surface temperatures in the tropical Atlantic have corresponded with lower-than-normal precipitation in the western Amazon, enabling scientists to predict droughts about three months ahead of the July-to-September dry season.

National Geographic News Watch  |  06/01-14
Warsaw climate talks give surprise boost to a struggling UN plan to provide incentives to reduce deforestation
  
IISD  |  06/01-14
The UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation (UN-REDD) released the November 2013 issue of its newsletter, which highlights support for the development of country approaches to REDD+ safeguards through the establishment of the UN-REDD Safeguards Coordination Group.
  
Peru21 |  02/01-14
Con miras a hacer un turismo sostenible, el Servicio Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas por el Estado (Sernanp) incrementó las tarifas de ingreso a las áreas naturales protegidas. La medida, la cual afecta a 14 áreas naturales, servirá para seguir mejorando la infraestructura y los servicios ecoturísticos en los ecosistemas resguardados por el Estado.  
  
Journal Articles & Publications
  
SNV  |  08 -13
This participatory carbon monitoring (PCM) manual is one of a series of three PCM manuals designed to facilitate stakeholders' participation in forest carbon monitoring.  This particular manual is designed to be used for quick reference on how to collect PCM data in the field.  The second manual in the series - Manual for Local Technical Staff - is for use by local forestry staff for co-ordinating PCM data collection and analysis. The third manual in the series - Manual for Local People - is for use by local villagers, comprising the PCM teams, for collecting PCM data in the field.
  
World Bank |  01-14
Mexico - Mexico Forests and Climate Change Project : P123760 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 04 (English)
  
SNV  |  08 - 13
This participatory carbon monitoring (PCM) manual is one of a series of three PCM manuals designed to facilitate stakeholders' participation in forest carbon monitoring.  This particular manual is for use by local villagers, comprising the PCM teams, for collecting PCM data in the field. The second manual in the series Manual for Local Technical Staff - is for use by local forestry staff for co-ordinating PCM data collection and analysis. The third manual in the series - Manual for Field Reference - is designed to be used for quick reference on how to collect PCM data in the field.
  
SNV  |  08 - 13
This participatory carbon monitoring (PCM) manual is one of a series of three PCM manuals designed to facilitate stakeholders' participation in forest carbon monitoring.  This particular manual is for use by local forestry staff for co-ordinating PCM data collection and analysis. The second manual in the series - Manual for Local People - is for use by local villagers, comprising the PCM teams, for collecting PCM data in the field. The third manual in the series - Manual for Field Reference - is designed to be used for quick reference on how to collect PCM data in the field.
  
Other Info & Tools
WWF |  22/01-14
Wed, Jan 22, 2014 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST. In this webinar, Anthony Anderson, Senior Specialist in Forests and Climate at WWF-Brazil, discusses the design and early institutional structure of ISA Carbon and identifies its strengths and challenges, based on a report recently released in English and Portuguese, Environmental service incentives in the state of Acre, Brazil: Lessons for policies, programmes and strategies for jurisdiction-wide REDD+.
  
AWF |  01-14
AWF is seeking a talented individual to implement its implement its forestry and climate change program in the DRC. Reporting to the Landscape Director and working with relevant teams, this position will work at national policy level liaising with the DRC Government in Kinshasa and various other stakeholders or within the Maringa-Lopori-Wamba (MLW) landscape. This position will entail occasional travel.
  
GCP |  08/01-14
What role can standards play in addressing the major supply-demand gap in REDD+ financing? This issue was the focus of an International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) event at November's climate COP in Warsaw, co-organised by FCMC and the Global Canopy Programme (GCP) titled "REDD+ standards in a fragmented market: what opportunities exist for REDD+ financing?"