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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 2 May '14
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The Economic Times | 01/05-14 13:35 
India has unveiled a draft national policy to provide a roadmap for building comprehensive strategies for cutting carbon emissions from deforestation.
  
CleanTechnica | 01/05-14 12:58 
Multinational researchers this week divulged the results of a study of Colombia's western Andes, one of the world's most threatened ecosystems, that confirmed that letting cattle land regrow as forest "carbon farms" could remove significant amounts of carbon dioxide from earth's atmosphere without
  
Antara News | 30/04-14 01:52 
Galeri Terkait Workshop UN REDD+ Video Terkait Pekanbaru (ANTARA News) - Provinsi Riau bakal menjadi sumber lumbung bioenergi listrik terbesar se-Sumatera sehingga diperkirakan dapat mensuplai kebutuhan energi listrik ke Pulau Jawa dan negara tetangga.
  
TVPerú | 30/04-14 00:27 
Como una oportunidad para demostrar el liderazgo del Perú, su capacidad de país en crecimiento y su rol en el mundo como un nación climáticamente responsable calificó el ministro del Ambiente, Manuel Pulgar Vidal la Conferencia de las partes de la Convención Marco de Naciones Unidas sobre Cambio
  
Climate Change Policy & Practice | 29/04-14 20:01 
The UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation (UN-REDD) released the first issue of its 2014 newsletter, which highlights an agreement between the National Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP) and the Government of Panama's National Environment
  
WWF | 28/04-14 
WWF cautiously welcomes the restoration and conservation initiative announced today by the Sinar Mas Group's Asia Pulp & Paper (APP). By declaring its intention to restore and support conservation of one million hectares of natural forest and other ecosystems in Sumatra and Kalimantan, APP has substantially strengthened the Forest Conservation Policy it announced in February 2013.
  
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World Bank | 29/04-14 21:10 
This paper explains the major issues and lessons derived from the national forest management program and REDD+ initiatives in Tanzania. It finds that addressing the most important drivers of forest degradation and deforestation, in particular the country energy needs and landownership, is essential for success in reducing emissions regardless of the type of program implemented.
  
World Bank | 04-14 
Implementation arrangements for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation can be seen as contracts that could address some of the inherent problems with forest carbon credits that often lead to high transaction costs -- measuring, monitoring, and verification.

 

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WWF | 23/04-14
This is an archive of the session that took place on Wednesday, April 23, 2014. This learning session features Joshua Lichtenstein of Bank Information Center who helps help us make sense of the major "social" issues in the FCPF's framework document, including social and environmental safeguards, land rights and tenure, benefit sharing, grievance and redress.