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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 13 June '14
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Linköpings Universitet | 10/06-14  
Planting and conserving forests is good for the climate. In REDD, a mechanism of the UN climate agreement, poor countries are rewarded for exactly this. But the way REDD is set up at present, there is a great risk that deforestation is not prevented, but rather moved to a different country.
 
CIFOR Forests | 10/06-14  
Most governments consider establishing protected areas like national parks where human presence is forbidden as the best way to conserve tropical forests. However, given economic demands, societal pressure on land, and the cost of forest protection, protected areas are unlikely to ever constitute more than a minor part of the tropical landscape 
 
Ecosystem Marketplace | 07/06-14  
Six years in the making, Peru's new Ecosystem Services Law passed on Thursday, providing a comprehensive legal framework for the sticky issue of payments for ecosystem services (PES). It is one of the most advanced pieces of legislation of its type, but had been stuck in committee for five years.
 
Climate Change Policy & Practice | 06/06-14 
Ministers convened for the second day of the high-level ministerial on 6 June, as part of the June session of the UN climate change talks in Bonn, Germany, to discuss the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action.
Climate Change Policy & Practice | 06/06-14  
Brazil submitted information and data on its greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions in the forest sector to the UNFCCC Secretariat, becoming the first developing country to voluntarily submit such data for assessment by technical experts.
  
ECOticias.com | 06/06-14   
El curso, de seis semanas de duración, cuenta con alumnos de muy diversas nacionalidades entre los que se encontraban representantes de Gobiernos, empresas y ongs de Camerún, Ghana, Congo, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Laos, Vietnam, etc... 
 
CIFOR Forests | 06/06-14  
BOGOR, Indonesia - An assessment of large-scale agriculture in Cameroon has shown that land benefit-sharing reforms could help develop a REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) revenue-payment mechanism, clarify the legal basis of land management in the country and help combat rural poverty.
 
SPDA Actualidad Ambiental | 06/06-14
Ayer, en el Día Mundial del Ambiente, el Congreso de la República aprobó la Ley de Mecanismos de Retribución por Servicios Ecosistémicos, con el fin de dar un adecuado marco jurídico a los acuerdos voluntarios que buscan mantener los bienes y servicios que brinda la naturaleza a todos los peruanos 
 
 
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UNEP-WCMC | 04-14
As there are obvious interconnections between climate change and biodiversity, the possible mutual benefits between climate change mitigation and adaptation and biodiversity conservation within projects and policies should be considered. Likewise, the potential negative impacts of climate change projects and policies to biodiversity and ecosystem services deserve attention. Therefore, a policy brief 'Addressing climate change: Why biodiversity matters' has been developed.  
 
Union of Concerned Scientists | 06-14
But today the pace of deforestation is down. Effective programs and policies-driven by individuals, communities, national governments and the private sector-have contributed to positive impacts for forest conservation, socioeconomic development and forest/land-use changes. Lessons drawn from these success stories could be replicated elsewhere to help reduce deforestation and increase reforestation. 
 
Andrea Alforte, David Wilson, Florencia B Pulhin and Rodel D. Lasco | 2014 
Forests are central to sustaining life on our planet. Sometimes referred to as the 'Earth's lungs', they filter the very air we breathe. More than this, forests also influence precipitation patterns which provide rain for agricultural systems, are home to a rich variety of biodiversity and provide livelihoods to millions of people around the world. 
 
Earth Innovation Institute | 06-14
For REDD+ to be successful and part of a coordinated global response to climate change, it must address the drivers of deforestation and degradation and therefore must be addressed in the context of rural development. On the ground, REDD+ must function within complex local contexts juggling rural development needs; livelihoods; services; agricultural practices; local cultural and political circumstances; commodity markets and trade. 
 
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Job: Coordinator, Certificate Program in Forest Carbon Management

Michigan State University| 05-14  
Certificate and Graduate Programs with the Department of Forestry at Michigan State University is seeking a full-time Academic Specialist to coordinate graduate programming in the Department, with a particular emphasis on managing and marketing an on-line graduate certificate program in Forest Carbon Science, Policy, and Management.  

 

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.
 
UNFCCC | 10/06-14
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