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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 24 October '14
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WWF | 24/10-14 
We are pleased to announce that the comprehensive WWF Guide to Building REDD+ Strategies is now available in Spanish. This guide includes sections on: REDD+ governance, Tracking REDD+, and Achieving REDD+. The guide is also available in English and Bahasa.

Las 2 Orillas | 22/10-14
Tras más un año de trabajo con comunidades y expertos, la organización ambiental World Wildlife Fund lanzó el lunes una propuesta de reglas de juego para que en Colombia se puedan realizar iniciativas de Reducción de Emisiones por Deforestación y Degradación (REDD+)...

CIFOR | 22/10-14
A declaration by the governors of 21 tropical states and provinces announced recently at the United Nations Climate Summit is one of the "best deals going" for mitigating climate change and protecting tropical forests, a top scientist says. And one non-tropical place-California-could be "key" to the success of the declaration.

The Guardian | 20/10-14
 The UN's climate chief urged country negotiators on Monday to "build bridges" at talks in Bonn towards a new, global pact that received fresh endorsement from world leaders last month.

Vartland | 15/10-14
Regjeringen får krass kritikk fra miljøorganisasjoner, opposisjonspolitikere og Skogeierforbundet for å kutte kraftig bevilgningen til frivillig vern av skog.


Journal Articles & Publications

WWF-Peru | 21/10-14
Tropical forests are not only a major source of natural resources, but also a key mechanism to reduce global warming. This is mainly due to their potential to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and store it, thus becoming one of the largest natural carbon stocks. However, forests have been significantly reduced due to increasing deforestation worldwide, causing more CO2 levels in the atmosphere to rise.

WWF | 24/10-14
This short REDD+ case study highlights the participatory development of social and environmental safeguards for REDD+ by Afro-Colombian communities in Colombia's Pacific region.

Science Direct | 09-14 
Historical baselines of forest cover are needed to understand the causes and consequences of recent changes and to assess the effectiveness of land-use policies. However, historical assessment of the global distribution of forest cover and change has been lacking due to obstacles in image acquisition, computational demands, and lack of retrospective reference data for image classification. 

WWF | 24/10-14
We are pleased to announce that the comprehensive WWF Guide to Building REDD+ Strategies is now available in Spanish. This guide includes sections on: REDD+ governance, Tracking REDD+, and Achieving REDD+. The guide is also available in English and Bahasa.


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WWF | 27/10-14
In this free learning session on 27 October, Cristina Eghenter, Social Development Deputy Director with WWF-Indonesia and Civil Society Stream Leader for the Borneo Programme, will share a brief introduction on her work as part of the Social Development for Conservation (SD4C) network initiative which focuses on WWF's cross-cutting social issues in conservation: poverty, equity, and Indigenous peoples.

The Nature Conservancy | 22/10-14
The online news service E&E News has just published a three-part series on how such efforts are playing out in Indonesia - the world's third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases, in part because of deforestation there. And The Nature Conservancy's forest science and conservation efforts there are a cornerstone of the coverage. 

REDDPlus Safeguards | 20/09-14
In its Hydrological Environmental Services Program (Pagos por Servicios Ambientales Hidrológicos or PSAH), Mexico was able to incentivize the protection of its watersheds through improved forest management.  Under PSAH, ejidos or agrarian communities get paid for preserving forests in areas of vital hydrological importance.