Building Natural Capital: How REDD+ Can Support a Green Economy, a report released to coincide with the International Day of Forests by the International Resource Panel (IRP) and the UN REDD Programme, and including input from WWF Forest and Climate Programme experts, outlines how integrating REDD+ programmes into a Green Economy approach can conserve and even boost the economic and social benefits forests provide to human society. 

  

An investment of US $30 billion per year - under seven per cent of the US $480 billion paid in annual global fossil fuel subsidies - in the REDD+ forest conservation initiative can accelerate the global transition to green and sustainable growth and ensure the long-term wellbeing of tens of millions in developing countries, a new report released today said.

  

A political party led by former cricketer Imran Khan has launched an ambitious effort to bring economic growth while using forest and other resources sustainably in northwest Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.

  

A decade after a brutal civil war, the West African nation of Liberia has partnered with the European Union on a novel system for protecting its remaining forests - marking every harvestable tree so it can be traced to its final destination.

  

The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) published a brochure that reports on the implementation of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Nyimba Forest Project in support of REDD+ in Zambia.

  

WWF has been elected to be the next northern country Civil Society Observer (CSO) at the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) and will begin the two year term immediately. The coming years will be a critical time for the FCPF and its efforts to support forest countries to build their capacity to address the drivers of deforestation and degradation, create a portfolio of pilot pay-for-performance conservation programs, and test ways to enhance livelihoods of local communities and conserve biodiversity. 

  

De acuerdo con un reciente estudio publicado en la revista Nature, los árboles aumentan de peso más rápido a medida que envejecen. El hallazgo que indica que el crecimiento de la mayoría de los árboles se acelera a medida que envejecen sugiere que los árboles grandes y maduros pueden desempeñar un papel inesperadamente dinámico en la eliminación de carbono de la atmósfera.

  

Business Mirror | 15/03-14 10:13 

With a conference on "Operationalizing REDD+ Safeguards in Southeast Asia and the Pacific," held recently in Subic Bay Freeport, stakeholders from the Philippines and countries of the Asia-Pacific region made an important step toward safeguarding forests and the rights of indigenous communities and...

  

SEMA - MT | 14/03-14 18:01 

O Fórum Mato-Grossense de Mudanças Climáticas e a Secretaria de Estado do Meio Ambiente (Sema) realizam no próximo dia 17 de março, das 13:30 às 17:00 horas, no Parque Estadual Massairo Okamura reunião para apresentação da "Estratégia Nacional de REDD+.