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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 30 May '14
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Press Release Point | 28/05-14  
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced today its support for the Althelia Climate Fund to lend up to $133.8 million in commercial financing for forest conservation and sustainable land use, helping to remove 100 million tons of carbon-the equivalent of 18. 
 
All Africa.com | 28/05-14 16:06  
Le recueil d'informations et de sensibilisation sur le processus de Réduction des Emissions de Gaz dus à la Déforestation et à la Dégradation des Forêts (REDD) est disponible en République Démocratique du Congo. 
 
Reuters | 28/05-14  
The United States government has agreed to cover half of any future losses from a forest protection fund in a landmark deal it says will benefit poor communities. 
 
Ecosystem Marketplace | 28/05-14  
Ecosystem Marketplace's State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2014 report launched today at Carbon Expo in Cologne, Germany. 
 
Jakarta Globe | 28/05-14  
Faced with the upcoming GLOBE Summit of World Legislators, scheduled to take place in Mexico City next month to test a new international climate change agreement centered on national legislation, the Indonesian government is in a race against time to evaluate its existing climate change policies, and bring its laws in line with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's promise to slash carbon emissions by 26 percent by 2020. 
 
RTCC | 26/05-14  
Coming off the back of the Abu Dhabi Ascent, and the jubilation at the recently announced agreement in the Green Climate Fund (GCF) meeting, Bonn looks to be just another stage post en route to Paris in 2015. But the Bonn intercessional this June is more than just a normal negotiation. 
 
Reuters | 21/05-14
 The U.N. funding vehicle for helping developing nations tackle climate change has set a November goal to receive its first round of cash pledges, a move hailed as a major step towards a global pact in 2015. 
 
CIFOR | 21/05-14  
A global study questions the idea that poverty drives forest clearing. Households with medium- to high-level assets close to markets are more likely to cut down trees than the poorest and market-isolated households, the study says. Researchers also suggest that a strategy of developing market access to alleviate poverty and eventually contain deforestation may backfire. 
 
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Iversen P., Lee D., and Rocha M | 05-14
The objective of this Guide is to increase the technical understanding of the treatment of land use under the United Nations Framework Conventio on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The land use sector comprises land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) and agriculture, sometimes referred to collectively as agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU).

ODI/CDKN | 05-14
This paper analyses research conducted in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), with additional material from CDKN's experience in Ghana, India and Pakistan. The results provide insights into the use of risk-related information in public investment decisions to manage risk, adapt to climate change and promote development.

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WWF | 28/05-14  
This is an archive of the learning session that took place on May 28, 2014. In this webinar, Rosa C. Goodman, an independent consultant working in forest conservation and sustainable management, uses the example of the southwestern Amazon to explain where and why new allometric models may need to be developed for REDD+ measurement, reporting and verification (MRV). 
 
WWF-DRC | 30/05-14  
The Green Economy Design Coordinator will ensure the coordinated development of an Emission Reduction Programme (ERP) in the Mai Ndombe region (12.6 Mha), integrated into a Green Economy global framework. 
 

UNEP FI | 28/05-14  

Consultoría para estudio técnico "Implicaciones y complementariedad del régimen de política fiscal del sector agropecuario ecuatoriano con los objetivos del programa nacional REDD+, enfatizando en uno de los mayores drivers de deforestación: la palma aceitera"