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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 24 Jan '14
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News Articles
Thomson Reuters Foundation  |  24/01-14
Demand for new land to grow crops could lead to the conversion of natural areas close to the size of Brazil by 2050, potentially exceeding the level beyond which there is a risk of irreversible and abrupt environmental change, a U.N. report said on Friday.
  
Nanduti/EFE |  23/01-14
El ministro peruano de Ambiente, Manuel Pulgar Vidal, mantuvo hoy encuentros en París con vistas a la preparación de la Conferencia de las Partes (COP20) sobre el cambio climático, que Lima acogerá a finales de año.
  
Mongabay |  23/01-14
In an article published in PLOS ONE, a group of researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute led by Michiel van Breugel evaluated the biodiversity preservation potential of secondary forests. However, while they found that secondary forests can provide suitable homes for broad arrays of species, the true biodiversity potential of these forests is often limited by cycles of reclearing. 
  
Mongabay  |  22/01-14
A study on deforestation in Cambodia has found that forests are better protected when local communities are given the responsibility to manage them locally. 
  
Ecosystem Marketplace |  21/01-14
A sustainable agriculture project in Kenya reached a milestone last week by becoming the first of its kind to earn carbon credits under the Verified Carbon Standard. Not only did the methodology used store carbon but results also showed an increase in crop yields signifying sustainable agricultural practices makes smart business sense. 
  
SciDev |  21/01-14
A UN agency is advocating for improved capabilities in gathering and using statistics as a central aspect of the post-2015 global development agenda to help governments make more effective decisions based on quality data.
  
CIFOR |  20/01-14
Children living in areas of Africa with heavy tree cover tend to have more nutritious diets, adding credence to research showing that forests play a key role in food security, according to a new paper published in Global Environmental Change. Boosting production of such energy-rich crops as rice, maize and wheat is often seen as essential to achieving global food security, but if this comes at the expense of forests, this might actually undermine nutritional security.

Oeco |  16/01-14
As nuvens continuam a cobrir grande parte do território da Amazônia (59%), o que dificulta a detecção e piora a qualidade dos dados de alerta de desmatamento, pois as nuvens atrapalham a visão do satélite. impedem a visualização por parte do satélite.
  
Journal Articles & Publications
Free, Prior and Informed Consent and REDD+: Guidelines and Resources
WWF  |  01 -14
This working paper presents resources and guidelines for the concept of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) as related to REDD+. It has been produced jointly by WWF-US's People and Conservation Programme and WWF's global Forest and Climate Programme (formerly the WWF Forest and Climate Initiative) as a working paper to invite comments and feedback. It was original drafted in June 2013 and is being publicly released with updated content in January 2014. 
  
Forest Ecology and Management |  01-14
While the primary purpose of REDD+ is climate change mitigation, it may have enormous co-benefits for biodiversity conservation. Biodiversity monitoring is essential for REDD+ to safeguard biodiversity. However, methods of biodiversity monitoring have not yet been established, because there is, so far, no reliable metric of biodiversity. 
  
UNFCCC |  23/01-14
This manual aims to assist stakeholders in developing afforestation and reforestation (A/R) projects under the clean development mechanism (CDM). It synthesizes the requirements with respect to  the project cycle, project documentation, project validation and registration, and monitoring and verification of A/R project activities.
  
FCMC |  01-14
This report reviews lessons learned from decades of community forestry experiences in Latin America and generates recommendations and conclusions for REDD+. It is one of three regional reports on Africa, Asia and Latin America that FCMC is commissioning, as well as a global synthesis.
  
Other Info & Tools
WWF |  01-14
WWF is currently seeking a consultant, or consultants, to carry on work either in part or as a whole, in support of the organization's global Forest and Climate Programme's knowledge sharing and learning work.
  
WWF |  05/02-14
In this presentation, John Costenbader, of Climate Focus discusses policy, law and regulatory elements necessary for successful design and implementation of REDD+. He focuses his remarks first on purely national frameworks and then considers legal issues relevant to sub-national or "nested" REDD+ opportunities.
  
WWF-FCP/GCP/USGS-Silva Carbon  |  01 -14
We are looking for candidate topics and/or individuals to be part of a Community Based MRV (CMRV) South-South training session to be held during first half of 2014 (location and date TBD). The goal of the meeting is for CMRV practitioners to share their know-how by teaching each other how to do relevant CRMV work, sharing tools, and having  an honest discussion about what has worked, what has not worked and why. Deadline for input is January 31, 2014.
  
WWF |  22/01-14
This is an archive of the session that took place on 22 Jan. 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.