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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 21 Feb '14
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Vientiane Times | 20/02-14 13:21 
The Faculty of Forestry at the National University of Laos (NUOL) and the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) reached a new agreement recently to coordinate on-going and planned forestry research projects throughout Laos.
  
EcoDebate | 20/02-14 10:41 
Os seis estados brasileiros que fazem parte da Força Tarefa dos Governadores para Floresta e Clima (GCF) lançaram essa semana um relatório com contribuições para a estratégia Nacional de Redução de Emissões do Desmatamento e Degradação Florestal (REDD+).
  
CSRwire | 19/02-14 12:53 
Wildlife Works Carbon LLC, the carbon market's leading REDD+ project development and management company, announced today that is has signed a $10M financing deal with the Althelia Climate Fund to launch the Taita Hills Conservation and Sustainable Land Use Project in south-eastern Kenya.
  
Ventures Africa | 19/02-14 11:14 
lobal tech giant, Microsoft Inc. has acquired a block of carbon credits from the Madagascan government to help protect one of the country's pristine rainforest ecosystems - the Makira National park.
  
Ecosystem Marketplace | 18/ 02-14
This is the 20th year that climate negotiators meeting under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are meeting to try and end global warming, and Peru will host this year's talks. As a run-up, it's also hosting the 20th Katoomba Meeting in April - one of two Katoombas taking place in Latin America this year. Here's a preview of these two meetings and how we'll be covering them.
  
EFE: Verde    | 18/ 02-14
Autoridades y expertos de Centroamérica y de organismos internacionales han iniciado en El Salvador un encuentro de dos días para analizar el impacto del cambio climático en esta región.
  
Thomson Reuters/CIFOR | 18/ 02-14
"We have to think about the diversification of productive landscapes in mosaics, incorporating forests as firebreaks and as biological or environmental corridors," says Miguel Pinedo-Vásquez, a senior scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research.
  
The New York Times | 18/ 02-14
Kellogg said it would buy palm oil only from companies that do not destroy tropical rain forests to produce the additive, which is used in many processed foods. Palm oil cultivation has wiped out more than 30,000 square miles of rain forests in Indonesia and Malaysia alone
  
WWF | 18/ 02-14
The GCF is widely expected to be the foremost multilateral source of financing for developing country efforts to shift to renewable energy, increase the efficiency of their energy use, implement more sustainable agricultural practices, ensure their industries adopt the most sustainable and low-impact technologies, adapt to increasing climatic disruptions, and generally contribute to putting the world on a climate safe development path, complementing much greater emissions reductions by developed countries.
  
Journal Articles & Publications
Biodiversity International  |  02-14
Maintaining the genetic viability of timber species is especially important to sustaining the productivity and quality of timber in tropical production forests because the diversity of tree species is high, their population densities are low, and pollen dispersal of many species is limited to short distances. 
  
WWF  | 18/ 02-14
WWF's global Forest and Climate Programme is pleased to release new Spanish and Bahasa (Indonesian) versions of the publication: Free, Prior and Informed Consent and REDD+: Guidelines and Resources.
  
SNV REDD   | 10/ 02-14
This paper presents a series of possible models for incentivising multiple benefits in subnational planning for REDD+, in the pioneering case study of Lam Dong province, Vietnam.  Models include conditional REDD+ investments to support agro-forestry and supply chain developments in key agricultural commodities in Lam Dong, such as coffee.
  
Business Council for Sustainable Energy |  02-14
The Factbook details how the US energy transformation is impacting US GHG emissions. Over the past five years, clean energy generation sources and energy efficiency improvements have driven U.S. greenhouse gas emissions down nearly 10 percent since 2005, dramatically reversing decades of increases.
  
Other Info & Tools
WWF |  05/03-14
In this webinar organized by WWF's Forest and Climate Programme, Jonah Busch, Research Fellow at Center for Global Development, discusses how an international REDD+ mechanism can be used to make payments for forests' biodiversity as well. Paradoxically, under conditions consistent with emerging REDD+ programs, money spent on a mixture of carbon payments and biodiversity payments can incentivize the provision of greater climate benefits than an equal amount of money spent only on carbon payments. 
  
UNEP Finance Initiative |  02-14
Closing date - 7 March, 2014. In line with the work programme delivered during the UNEP FI Annual General Meetings and approved by UNEP, the consultant will carry out the following core responsibilities integral to the work of UNEP FI with its signatories and partners. The Consultant will report directly to the REDD+ team leader, and will operate under the direction of the Head and Deputy Head of UNEP FI.
  
WWF-Brasil and Fibria |  04-14
Mato Grosso do Sul State, Brazil, April 7 - 11, 2014. The NGP Brazil study tour is co-hosted by WWF-Brazil and Fibria, and will be organized in close collaboration with the Mato Grosso do Sul Forest Dialogue. During the study tour we will bring together national and international forest and civil society stakeholders, in a learning and sharing experience, discussing forestry and agriculture landscapes and multi-stakeholder processes. We aim to learn from the Cerrado landscape experience and stimulate the local multi-stakeholder dialogue.
  
RRI | 18/02-14
2013 saw a lot of serious progress in forest tenure reform: legal judgments that upheld the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities; successful local movements that brought the land crisis to the top of political agendas; and unprecedented commitments to land rights by leading companies and governments.