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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 7 Feb '14
News Articles
Journal Articles & Publications
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News Articles
WWF | 06/02-14  
WWF's Forest and Climate Programme is excited to share with you new REDD+ Country Profiles for Colombia, Mexico and Nepal developed in partnership with WWF-Germany and WWF national offices. These new profiles are in addition to those already available for Peru, Bolivia, Cameroon, Vietnam and DRC. 
  
The Canberra Times | 05/02-14 12:19 
Donor nations, rainforest-rich countries and multilateral institutions will have to spend tens of billions of dollars in the next few years to ensure that nations undergoing deforestation will have incentives to halt the practice, a report said.
  
Daily Camera | 05/02-14  
A new study examining carbon emissions in the Amazon basin by a Boulder researcher and two other scientists indicates its tropical ecosystems may now emit more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than they absorb. The long-term implications of the study, which provide the basis for the first carbon budget estimate of the Amazon basin, could spell accelerated global warming.
  
Post Newspapers Zambia | 05/02-14 12:01 
Environmental protection and natural resources minister Harry Kalaba says Zambia is currently expediting the process of putting in place policy frameworks and institutional arrangements that will help the country benefit from the climate adaptation fund.
  
Ecoportal.net | 05/02-14 11:31 
Representantes de los pueblos nativos de la región Ucayali, autoridades del sector público forestal y especialistas participaron de un taller de difusión y de recojo de aportes de la Ley Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre y su propuesta de Reglamento, con el fin de construir consenso sobre la situación
  
Science Codex | 05/02-14  
The release of volatile organic compounds from Earth's forests and smoke from wildfires 3 million years ago had a far greater impact on global warming than ancient atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide, a new Yale study finds.
  
Inter Press Service | 05/02-14 20:24 
Global trends towards a strengthening of legal rights over land for local and indigenous communities appear to have slowed significantly in recent years, leading some analysts to warn that the fight for local control over forests has reached an inflection point with a new danger of backtracking on previous progress.
  
Ecoticias | 04/02-14 
En un comunicado, Bloomberg ha asegurado que las ciudades se han erigido como líderes en la lucha contra el cambio climático y ha anunciado que su cargo como enviado especial de la ONU durará dos años.
  
7th Space Interactive | 04/02-14 
Forest resources supply a wide range of environmental services like mitigation of increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). As climate is changing, forest managers have added pressure to obtain forest resources by following stand management alternatives that are biologically sustainable and economically profitable.
  
Chicago Tribune | 03/02-14 
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Donor nations, rainforest-rich countries and multilateral institutions will have to spend tens of billions of dollars in the next few years to ensure that nations undergoing deforestation will have incentives to halt the practice, a report released on Monday said.
  
Banco de Desarrollo de América Latina | 28/01-14 
Mediante la firma de un convenio llevada a cabo en la sede de CAF -banco de desarrollo de América Latina- en Caracas, el Gobierno de la República Federal de Alemania otorga a la institución financiera la posibilidad de obtener del KfW, banco de desarrollo alemán, préstamos en términos concesionales por un total de 285 millones de Euros. Este monto se suma a las líneas de crédito que ha aprobado el KfW a CAF por más de USD 800 millones en los últimos 10 años.
  
Journal Articles & Publications
CARE |  01-14
This brief provides a much needed and long awaited short document demonstrating how community based adaptation is a valuable and essential component of the vision for resilience across Africa. It draws on the lessons learnt by ALP over the last four years across four countries and explains ALP's perspective on what CBA is and how it can be implemented using some practical approaches which can be adopted and scaled up.
  
WWF | 05/02-14  
Este documento de Prácticas Inspiradoras relata el desarrollo de un concepto sobre el programa de reducción de emisiones (ER-PIN, por sus siglas en inglés) a ser implementado en un programa REDD+ jurisdiccional a gran escala a lo largo de la futura provincia de Mai-Ndombe en la República Democrática del Congo (RDC).
  
INFRAS |  01-14
Market based approaches are a key element in the international response to climate change. The new INFRAS study "Crediting Emission Reductions in New Market Based Mechanisms" aims to contribute to the on-going discussions in various fora, including the FVA and NMM, on how market based mechanisms need to be designed to deliver cost-effective, real, measureable, additional and permanent emission reductions. The study focuses on crediting mechanisms and is structured in two parts.
  
WRI |  01-14
The authors identify opportunities for progress with the recently extended Indonesian forest moratorium, a policy aiming to protect an area the size of Japan from development.
  
Other Info & Tools
WWF |  05/02-14
In this archived 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.
  
UNITAR |  24/02-14
This online course will develop participants' understanding of the climate change policy framework, by building an appreciation of the science, causes and impacts of climate change, the history of the policy making process and the UNFCCC framework, and will also consider the pertinent challenges currently facing diplomats and international decision makers in making progress with what is currently on the negotiating table. 
  
VCS |  01-14
The JNR Leakage Tool is relevant for subnational jurisdictions, where a REDD+ program can cause leakage emissions outside the jurisdiction, but within the same country. While the tool is optional, it provides jurisdictions a simplified step-by-step approach for such programs to address leakage due to activity shifting, market effects and deforestation-to-degradation leakage. 
  
VCS |  27/02-14
This webinar will feature two members from the JNR leakage working group, Ruben Lubowski (EDF) and Gordon Smith (Wildlife Works Carbon), who will provide insight on the development and content of the tool and modules, and take any associated questions. 
  
VCS |  27/02-14
Se espera que este webinar entregue una mirada sobre el desarrollo y contenido de la herramienta y módulos, y se dará la oportunidad para responder a cualquier pregunta asociada.  Además, el webinar subrayará varias plantillas publicadas recientemente para apoyar programas JNR, incluyendo aquella para la descripción de programa JNR, la descripción de línea base JNR, y para el reporte de riesgo de no-permanencia JNR.
  
Stakeholder Forum |  01-14
The Sustainable Development Goals e-Inventory is an interactive online tool which enables stakeholders to outline their visions for new post-2015 global goals. This may be in the form of fully  formed proposals, which include detailed targets and indicators, or simply principles and themes that should be applied to the goals. The e-Inventory also enables stakeholders to search existing proposals.