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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 31 Jan '14
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Directions Magazine | 30/01-14 12:52 
BlackBridge (formerly RapidEye) | Berlin,Germany January 24, 2014 Berlin, Germany: BlackBridge, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and Remote Sensing Solutions (RSS) have signed a 2-year agreement to strengthen earth observation capabilities at Ethiopian national
  
Thomson Reuters Foundation | 29/01-14
Nestled on the west side of Pakistan's Indus River, the remote town of Chilas is notorious for its timber smugglers, who operate freely in the northern district of Gilgit-Baltistan. Pakistan's timber mafia is made up of organised gangs that cut trees from state-owned forests and sell them illegally, often working at night.
  
WWF | 28/01-14
WWF has cautiously welcomed a Sustainable Forest Management Policy (SFMP) launched today by Asia Pacific Resources International Ltd (APRIL), noting that a commitment to support forest conservation areas equal in size to its plantations sets a new standard for the pulp and paper industry in Indonesia.
  
Togo - IciLome.com | 28/01-14 16:22 
Le Burkina Faso est devenu membre du Fonds de partenariat pour le carbone forestier (FPCF) et bénéficiera de 3,8 millions de dollars de la Banque africaine de développement (BAD), pour la mise en œuvre effective du mécanisme REDD+, a appris APA
  
PRWeb | 28/01-14 08:19 
InfiniteEARTH announced that Indonesia's Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve has successfully furnished over 100 households with fuel efficient, smokeless, cook stoves. According to input from all 100 test households, the pilot program was a resounding success and is planned to roll-out to the entire population, over 2,500 households, by end of April, 2014.
  
Ecosystem Marketplace | 27/01-14
Costa Rica's great experiment with payments for ecosystem services helped restore millions of hectares of forest and shaped the nation into a laboratory for climate mitigation mechanisms. Costa Rica is now establishing a domestic carbon market with plans to link it to international markets in the future-all as part of its plan to become carbon neutral by 2021. 
  
All Africa.com | 27/01-14 10:32 
Sustainable management of Zambia's natural resources and environment is critical for Zambia's social and economic development, particularly with respect to land preservation. Land is one of the factors of productions which is important and should be safe guarded because all activities take place on it.
  
EFEVerde | 24/01-14
La comunidad hispana apoya mayoritariamente las iniciativas oficiales para combatir la contaminación y el cambio climático, según un estudio del Consejo para la Defensa de Recursos Naturales (NRDC), divulgado este jueves.
  
Mongabay.com News | 23/01-14 15:30 
Much of what we know about patterns of biodiversity has come from extensive fieldwork, with expert researchers sampling and identifying species in a process that takes thousands of man-hours. But new technologies may revolutionize this process, allowing us to monitor changes in biodiversity at speeds and scales unimaginable just a decade ago.
  
ASEAN Expo - China | 23/01-14 02:22 
Laos is considering harnessing its rich forestry resources for the sale of carbon credits according to state-run daily Vientiane Times, Wednesday. Government officials and development partners working in the forestry sector gathered here in Lao capital Vientiane to discuss Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) . Participants discussed REDD preparation in the country as well as the potential for Laos in the carbon credit market.
  
Journal Articles & Publications
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. 
  
IES | 25/01-14
Climate change is a complex, crosscutting, long-term and global problem. Policymakers acknowledge that integrating climate policy objectives into the elaboration and agreement of measures in other sectors represents one method for striving towards coherent policies that respond adequately to the climate change problem. This policy brief presents the results and policy recommendations from the project "climate policy integration into EU energy policy".
  
WRI/EMBARQ | 27/01-14
In order to take advantage of new and existing climate finance resources and leverage them properly for the transport sector, developing countries can take steps to increase their "readiness" for funding. EMBARQ, the transport and urban development program at WRI, undertook a research effort on behalf of GIZ's Bridging the Gap initiative to essential issues to address in order to successfully plan for, access, and operationalize transport climate finance.
  
Other Info & Tools
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.
  
TNC | 27/01-14
TNC is seeking an exceptional person as Forests and Climate Senior Manager to lead our REDD+ efforts in Indonesia through interaction with government, private sector, local communities.
  
ELD | 28/01-14
Land and the benefits that can be derived from it have been taken for granted and undervalued for thousands of years. The negative consequences of land degradation affect us all, directly or indirectly: food insecurity, pests, reduced availability of clean water, increased vulnerability to climate change, biodiversity loss and much more. This course discloses to you how to assess the economic benefits of land as a first step towards preventing its degradation. It introduces methods of economic analysis and valuation that help you manage land sustainably and efficiently.
  
TRAFFIC | 27/01-14
TRAFFIC is seeking a Timber Trade Project Officer for its regional East/ Southern Africa Programme. The Project Officer will play a pivotal role in developing TRAFFIC East/Southern Africa's regional timber trade programme and will be responsible for the implementation of timber trade related projects in the region. The Project Officer will be responsible for implementation of a timber trade project in northern Namibia on the border with Angola and Zambia.  It is anticipated the staff member will work in both South Africa and Namibia.