Thank you for subscribing to the REDD+ Resource Digest, a weekly email round-up of REDD+ news and information. This digest is compiled as a service to REDD+ practitioners around the globe and represents a wide range of varying perspectives -- not necessarily the views or positions of WWF. Please feel free to share this email with others and to invite them to join our email subscription list below.
Latest REDD+ News and Information: 25 July '14
News Articles
Journal Articles & Publications
Other Info
News Articles

All Africa | 23/07-14
La Société agricole du Bas-Uélé, une nouvelle entreprise, va acquérir la Compagnie de développement du Nord (Codenord) qui produisait du coton pour la Société textile de Kisangani (Sotexki).

WWF | 23/07-14
In this issue we highlight the work being led by the WWF-Indonesia team in Kutai Barat. We also present interviews with Maria Eugenia Arroyo of WWF-Peru, Dr. Mairon Bastos Lima, a postdoctoral researcher at Wageningen University and Research Centre, and Anggela Michi and Jiang Oliver Liao Torres who work on REDD+ issues with the regional government in Madre de Dios, Peru. 

  

World Resources Institute | 23/07-14
Strengthening community forest rights is an essential strategy to reduce billions of tonnes of carbon emissions, making it an effective way for governments to meet climate goals, safeguard forests and protect the livelihoods of their citizens, according to a major new report. 

  

WWF | 22/07-14
WWF-Indonesia is making major strides in partnering with local communities to demarcate and preserve vast sections of forest in the Kutai Barat area. A recent visit to Linggang Melapeh village with members of the WWF Forest and Climate Programme set the stage for sharing challenges, lessons learned, and best practices of making REDD+ a reality as part of a broader green development program in Kutai Barat. 

RTCC | 22/07-14

Barack Obama and Xi Jinping are set to attend a climate summit hosted by UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon in September. The US and Chinese heads of state are on a "very long list of confirmations" to attend the one-day conference in New York, according to UN climate chief Christiana Figueres.


 

WWF | 22/07-14
 In an effort to build capacity of timber industry stakeholders (community, government and private sector) on biodiversity safeguards, the WWF-Indonesia Kutai Barat Office and local Forestry Agency recently conducted a three-day biodiversity workshop at PT. Ratah Timber in newly split district (from Kutai Barat) Mahakam Ulu, East Kalimantan.  

  

el informante | 21/07-14
FONAM PERU, viene organizando el II Curso Taller Internacional "Estrategias de Desarrollo hacia una Economía Baja en Carbono", cuyo objetivo es dar a conocer los diversos mecanismos y acciones que ofrece el nuevo escenario nacional e internacional para contribuir con la mitigación y adaptación al Cambio Climático y asumir un crecimiento bajo en emisiones desarrollando para el Perú una Economía baja en Carbono.  

  

WWF | 21/07-14  
In Guyana, the North Rupununi District Development Board (NRDDB), an indigenous community-based organization, is training the Wai Wai community of Kanashen in Community Measurement, Reporting and Verification (CMRV). The project, initiated by WWF-Guianas, establishes a model for developing CMRV capacity in remote indigenous communities...
 
Journal Articles & Publications
World Resources Institute | 07-14
Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change analyzes the growing body of evidence linking community forest rights with healthier forests and lower carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. 
 
FAO | 2014
Un nuevo Documento de orientación - Planificación nacional para la mitigación de gases de efecto invernadero proporciona una introducción a los responsables de las políticas nacionales y asesores de los principales enfoques de planificación de mitigación del cambio climático en la agricultura. 
 
forests | 2014
The difficulty of defining and quantifying forest degradation is a major constraint in the implementation of the international mitigation mechanism Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). Our aim is to develop an operational framework for defining and quantifying forest degradation at a local level for early REDD+ projects and for national REDD+ programmes, through a ground level approach.  

 

Other Info & Tools

WWF | 22/07-14
"Our role is to establish REDD+ guidelines and mechanisms in Madre de Dios (MDD), Peru with the ultimate aim of reducing GHG emissions in the region. We also manage work related to strengthening governance in Madre de Dios."