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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 25 September '14
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WWF | 24/09-14
An event held last week in Balikpapan, Indonesia, celebrated the launch of the new 'Green Development Strategy for Kutai Barat District.' Kutai Barat's green development strategy is the first to be completed at a district scale in Indonesia. Work outlined in the strategy would help to save 942,000 hectares of tropical forest, strengthen the District economy and local livelihoods, and conserve habitats for some of the world's most important populations of orangutans and Bornean Clouded Leopards.

WWF | 23/09-14
Norway will provide $300 million in funding to Peru from 2014 through 2020 for work on reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+). The funding was pledged as a part of the signing of a joint partnership agreement between Peru, Germany and Norway to support Peru's efforts in reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in the Peruvian Amazon. Although Germany is already supporting Peru's climate and forest efforts, they will consider further contributions going forward.

RPP| 23/09-14
Perú y Noruega suscribieron este martes en la sede de la ONU un acuerdo marco dotado con 300 millones dólares de fondos para proteger la Amazonía y en función del cumplimiento de metas establecidas por el Gobierno peruano.

Washington Post | 23/09-14
More than 30 countries set the first-ever deadline on Tuesday to end deforestation by 2030, but the feasibility of such a goal was eroded when a key player, Brazil, said it would not join.

BBC| 23/09-14
The French promised a billion dollars for the Green Climate Fund, a significant amount you might think, but miles from the goal of getting a hundred billion a year by 2020.Following on from the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation divesting their dosh from fossil fuel, there were further significant announcements from institutional investors.

Le Point | 23/09-14
C'est peut-être la fin de trois siècles de surexploitation. La déclaration de New York sur les forêts vient d'être signée à l'ONU par une multitude d'acteurs, en parallèle d'un sommet sur le climat. L'objectif est de diviser par deux la déforestation d'ici à 2020 - actuellement, 13 millions d'hectares de forêt disparaissent chaque année - et de l'arrêter totalement en 2030. Autre but affiché : replanter l'équivalent de 350 millions d'hectares en quinze ans, soit la surface de l'Inde.

Forbes| 23/09-14
The United Nations has set its first ever global deadline to end forest loss, bringing together for the first time actors that have been perennial antagonists.

CIFOR | 22/09-14
"People talk about agriculture and forests as if it's all one similar system, whereas we actually have many different types of forests, many different types of agriculture that connect to forests, and the connections themselves are quite varied," said Cheryl Palm, a Senior Research Scientist and Director of Research at the Agriculture and Food Security Center at Columbia University.

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WWF | 18/09-14
For years, WWF has been at the forefront of the forest and climate agenda, pushing for ambitious international agreements and partnering with diverse stakeholders for on-the-ground work in more than 25 countries. We are convinced that, when done in a way that safeguards the rights of local communities and indigenous peoples, this work can not only benefit forests and climate, but also biodiversity and local livelihoods, above and beyond other traditional forest conservation initiatives

WWF/WUR | 09-14
This brief explores the contribution that agriculture, forestry and other land uses (the AFOLU sector) can make to start reducing emissions immediately. We take a comprehensive approach that regards forest conservation and other land uses not as isolated activities, but as integrated systems that need to become sustainable. The brief discusses why the AFOLU sector is key, what can be achieved through action on it, existing barriers, and some ways forward.

WWF-Peru | 09-14
WWF-Perú, en el marco del proceso de Ordenamiento Territorial que viene conduciendo el Gobierno Regional de Madre de Dios (GOREMAD) a través de la Gerencia Regional de Planeamiento, Presupuesto y Acondicionamiento Territorial y con el apoyo del Servicio Holandés de Cooperación al Desarrollo (SNV), ha elaborado la "Guía práctica para la valoración de Servicios ecosistémicos en Madre de Dios."

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TNC | 24/09-14
Over the weekend, two op-eds in leading national newspapers brought attention to the role of tropical forests as a solution to climate change - just in time for the UN Climate Summit happening this week in New York.
But their conclusions were a study in contrast. Is forest conservation a near-term solution to climate change, as Ellis and Ellis claim in the Washington Post?