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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 6 June '14
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News Articles

WWF, UCS, Yale | 05/06-14
WWF, the Union for Concerned Scientists, and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies are pleased to present a new, 2014 version of mind maps. These maps provide negotiators and observers alike the tools they need to understand the complex streams of the UNFCCC processes and how REDD+ fits into these. 

Reuters | 05/06-14
The world's leading industrialised nations gave their backing on Thursday to a new global deal on climate change in 2015 after promises from the United States at the start of the week galvanised flagging momentum.
 
Africa Science News | 05/06-14  
Economic development coupled with soci-economic changes are relieving pressure on forests in the Central Africa among 16 other countries, thanks to programs and policies to reduce deforestation and the global warming emissions resulting from deforestation, a report by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) shows. 
 
Antara News | 05/06-14  
Britain and Norway have confirmed they will maintain good relations with the next government of Indonesia, according to the two countries ambassadors. 
 
CIFOR Forests | 04/06-14   
JAKARTA, Indonesia - The necessary public and private investment to finance a "green economy" in Southeast Asia has so far been slow to arrive, experts said at a recent regional conference, urging a range of different approaches to help accelerate it. 
 
Ecosystem Marketplace | 03/06-14  
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) made a big splash in the carbon markets last week with the announcement that it will partially guarantee investments made by the Althelia Climate Fund for up to $133.8 million. 
 
All Africa.com | 02/06-14 
Kwara/Harare - The women folk of Eye-Nkorin, a farming community of 500 people in Nigeria's Kwara State, make a living from cooking up mashed cassava - and for this they need a huge amount of energy, supplied by firewood from nearby forests.
  
iisd | 02/06-14  
The Bonn Climate Change Conference will begin with two high-level ministerial sessions on: implementation of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol; and political aspects of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP), including the nature of nationally determined contributions for the 2015 agreement and the necessary level of ambition before 2020. Ministers will also consider the recently published reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 
 
Gloobal | 01/06-14  
Indonesia, compuesta por más de 17.000 islas muy vulnerables a la elevación de los mares, evalúa su posición como tercer emisor mundial de gases de efecto invernadero después de Estados Unidos y China 
 
 
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WWF | 29/05-14
WWF is excited to continue its partnership with the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Yale School of the Environment and Forestry to produce a new 2014 series of visual maps detailing REDD+ within the UNFCCC system.These maps provide negotiators and observers alike the tools they need to understand the complex streams of the UNFCCC processes and how REDD+ fits into these. 
 
WWF | 05-14  
WWF's global Forest and Climate Programme is pleased to release a new addition to our series of REDD+ Inspiring Practices. This newest document focuses on 'Creating Community Forests in Indonesia,' 

GMS| 05-14
This report presents the methodology and lessons from a climate change adaptation study conducted under the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Core Environment Program. The study yielded a framework and methodology for assessing climate vulnerability and adaptation options for rural communities in the GMS. It was conducted in biodiversity conservation corridors in Lao People's Democratic Republic, Thailand, and Viet Nam during 2011-2012. The report introduces the framework, describes how it was applied, major results, and makes recommendations for future improvement.

Other Info & Tools

  

t20Q| 05-14  
T20Q, the Top 20 Questions for Forestry and Landscapes, is a global project enabling you to have your say about issues of importance for forestry and landscape research & policy. Our survey (available in English, Spanish and French) is open from now until early October 2014, and we invite you and your colleagues to participate. 
 
NOAA Climate.gov | 22/05-14   
Fundamental to any attempts to understand, slow, or reverse the build up of atmospheric carbon dioxide is a global accounting of where it's released and stored. That's why scientists at NOAA's Earth Systems Research Laboratory created CarbonTracker: a carbon dioxide measuring and modeling system that tracks sources and sinks around the globe.  

 

UN-REDD Programme | 06-14  

The professional will provide high-quality technical advice, coordination and implementation support
to the implementation of the Nigeria REDD+ Programme, which receives the technical and financial
support of the three UN-REDD agencies (UNDP, FAO and UNEP). The international REDD+ advisor will
ensure the REDD+ process in Cross River State delivers the planned outputs and will lead and/or
support the formulation of the State's REDD+ strategy, the national REDD+ framework and the
national forest monitoring system.