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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 18 Apr '14
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WWF | 18/04-14
Nepal made new headway in the REDD+ readiness process with the approval of its Emission Reductions Project Idea Note (ER-PIN) at the Carbon Fund's Ninth Meeting (CF9) organized by the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility under the World Bank in April 2014 in Brussels, Belgium.
  
RTCC | 17/04-14
Brazil wants owners of UN carbon credits to donate them to the organisers of this year's World Cup, offsetting the tournament's emissions in return for free publicity. The government hopes that up to a million credits known as certified emission reductions (CERs) from the UN's Clean Development Mechanism will be made available.
  
FCMC | 17/04-14
The challenges and triumphs of decades of community forestry provide valuable insights into the core objectives of REDD+: reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation while benefitting people and ecosystems. The Forest Carbon, Markets and Communities (FCMC) Program is pleased to inform you that the suite of four reports on Lessons Learned from Community Forestry and Their Relevance for REDD+ is now available on the FCMC website.
  
GEF | 16/04-14
30 donor countries today pledged US$ 4.43 billion for the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to support developing countries' efforts over the next four years to prevent degradation of the global environment.

WWF | 15/04-14
The DRC Emission Reductions Program Idea Note (ER-PIN) was provisionally approved last week in Brussels, Belgium by the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility's Carbon Fund, administered by the World Bank. DRC's program would be one of the first jurisdictional-scale REDD+ programs in Africa, including approximately ten million hectares of forest and two and a half million hectares of mixed agricultural lands and savannah. 
  
e! Science News | 15/04-14
The ability of forests to sequester carbon from the atmosphere depends on nutrients available in the forest soils, shows new research from an international team of researchers, including IIASA.
  
Ecosystem Marketplace | 15/04-14
By saving their Manu National Park, Peruvians have engineered a biodiversity boom - just as more research shows that undisrupted and biodiversity-rich ecosystems recover more rapidly from disturbances brought on by climate change. Lauren Cooper of Nature Services Peru says this should put REDD front-and-center at year-end climate talks there.
  
WWF Peru | 10/04-14
La propuesta de Reglamento de la Ley Forestal No 29763 incluye 112 menciones a plazos. En al menos cuatro casos, dichos plazos son obligatorios y su incumplimiento constituirá una infracción, en los otros no se establece qué pasa si éstos no se cumplen.
  
NERC | 04/04-14
The Department for International Development and Natural Environment Research Council announce new funding of £20m for climate research in Africa. The 5 year programme 'Future Climate for Africa' (FCFA) will support research to better understand climate variability and change across sub-Saharan Africa.
  
Journal Articles & Publications
WRI | 04-14
This issue brief explores the complicated realities of how accountability tools functioned in land-use planning, zoning, and permitting processes in a pair of case studies from Brazil and Indonesia and draws lessons for government or civil society designers of REDD+ programs.
  
  
LSE | 04-14
This paper evaluates the additionality of a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) bagasse cogeneration project at Kakira Sugar Works (KSW) in Uganda using what I refer to as an ex-post comparative baseline approach that accounts for how background economic conditions and project financing evolved over the project's 7 year crediting period from 2008-2014.
  
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The Carbon Brief | 15/04-14
Know your AFOLU from your LULUCF? The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has made great efforts to cut the "weirdo words" and put its big climate reports into terms everyone can understand. But that hasn't stopped it from occasionally befuddling readers with a range of complex acronyms.
  
FIELD | 14/04-14
REDD+ has now been under discussion for almost ten years in the international climate change negotiations. Many developing countries are implementing REDD+ activities.The Warsaw climate conference in November 2013 agreed more REDD+ rules, but there are still open questions and clearer rules are needed on several issues.
  
LEDS LAC | 23/04-14
El Banco Mundial (BM) y la Plataforma para Latinoamérica y el Caribe (LEDS LAC) de la Alianza Global sobre Estrategias de Desarrollo Bajo en Emisiones (LEDS GP) presentan su segunda serie de cuatro webinars sobre Estrategias de Desarrollo Bajo en Emisiones (LEDS).