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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 7 Mar '14
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News Articles
CIFOR | 06/03-14  
Comprehensive U.N. anti-poverty targets established in 2000 have done much to advance and empower rural women by making gender parity an integral part of international discussions on development. However, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) appear to have fallen short in addressing the plight of rural women in an often-overlooked area: energy access.
  
RTCC | 06/03-14  
China's government says industrialised countries should commit to new 2020 emission reduction targets of 40% on 1990 levels by the end of next month. In a strongly worded submission to the UN's climate body China also says developed countries must provide $40 billion of low carbon finance in 2014, rising by $10 billion a year to 2020.
  
Climate Change Policy & Practice | 05/03-14 17:38 
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) announced the launch of a second national forest inventory in Zambia, including new elements for measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) for REDD+.
  
YubaNet.com | 05/03-14 15:39 
This year's UN climate change negotiations kick off in Bonn next week, marking the beginning of an intense year of conferences and summits designed to lead to a meaningful, universal agreement in Paris in late 2015. The meeting (10 - 14 March) will include work towards the new global climate agreement, to enter into force from 2020, and work to find ways to boost immediate, effective climate action.
  
Grafelbergnoticias | 05/03-14 15:06 
CONAF es nominado como encargado de REDD+ ante la ONU La Corporación Nacional Forestal impulsará acciones tendientes a la reducción de emisiones de Gases de Efecto Invernadero (GEI) asociadas a degradación y deforestación de los bosques.
  
Instituto Carbono Brasil | 05/03-14 11:21 
Apesar de ainda não serem ambiciosas o suficiente para limitar o aquecimento global em 2ºC, o que seria o recomendável para evitarmos as piores consequências das mudanças climáticas, quase 500 leis relacionadas ao clima já estão em vigor em 66 países.
  
Jakarta Globe | 04/03-14 02:58 
A green entrepreneur and his forest conservation company are leading the way with a business model that is not just green and sustainable but has the backing and involvement of the community. Dharsono Hartono, president director of Rimba Makmur Utama, has invested in a restoration project consisting of 217,000 hectares of forest inside the Katingan peatlands in Central Kalimantan, where the company engages in regular talks with residents of the area on an equal footing.
  
PRNewswire | 03/03-14
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of more than 170 Open Source projects and initiatives, announced today that the Apache Open Climate Workbench Project (a.k.a. "Apache Climate" or "Apache OCW") has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles.
  
Journal Articles & Publications
Ecology and Society | 03-14  
Will community monitoring assist in delivering just and equitable REDD+? We assessed whether local communities can effectively estimate carbon stocks in some of the world's most carbon rich forests, using simple field protocols, and we reviewed whether community monitoring exists in current REDD+ pilots.
  
Watershed Organisation Trust  | 03-14  
This paper examines the energy scenario - availability, access, influence of markets and government policies - in rural India, especially in the areas where WOTR has been working.  It highlights the successful partnership between local communities, with their innate grounded wisdom and local knowledge, and modern researchers and scientists willing to position their learning and experience on community science.
  
South Pole Carbon  | 03-14  
South Pole Carbon has partnered with Beijing-based consulting firm Environomist, the Shanghai Environmental and Energy Exchange and Chinese testing and certification organization CTI to profile and compare all seven pilot emission trading schemes (ETS) of China. 2013 has witnessed five out of the seven pilots going live - enabled by a wealth of legislation and regulations forming the foundation of China's future carbon markets.
  
IGES | 03-14  
The fact sheets aim at providing updated information on the status of national climate policy and market mechanisms including the CDM, the JCM and domestic mechanisms for Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam.
 
Other Info & Tools
WWF | 03-14  
This is an archive of the session that took place on Wednesday, March 5, 2014. In this webinar, 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 as for carbon emission reduction. 
  
Land Portal | 05/03-14 19:24 
The opportunities below are two-year positions through the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD) of Chiang Mai University and the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in the Hague, Netherlands.
  
FCP  | 03-14  
Candidate must work at offices located in Washington, DC, USA. We are seeking a Communications and Learning intern to support the work of the WWF Forest and Climate Programme  Communications and Learning & Knowledge Sharing teams, and to be a contributing member of the broader FCP team.