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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 31 October '14
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WWF-Peru | 29/10-14
Los líderes indígenas, miembros de la Coordinadora de las Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica (COICA), en coordinación con la Asociación Interétnica de Desarrollo de la Selva Peruana (AIDESEP), la Federación Nativa de Madre de Dios (FENAMAD) y WWF Perú, organizan el taller de capacitación...

WWF | 28/10-14
Community members in the Province of Bandundu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recently participated in a large-scale reforestation effort supported by WWF-DRC in collaboration with the national non-governmental organization (NGO) Ntombokolo and local NGO Centre d'Initiative et d'Appui Participatif à l'Agriculture Familiale et l'Environnement Durable (CIAPAFED) which works directly in the project area.

IISD | 28/10-14
he UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation (UN-REDD) has released its 2014 Semi-annual Progress Report in preparation for its 13th Policy Board Meeting. The report highlights the completion of the external evaluation of UN-REDD, which covered the period 2008 to 2013.

WWF | 27/10-14
welcomes Guyana President Ramotar's announcement of Norway's 2012 calendar year performance-based payment into the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF). The payment of US$35 million was reduced by US$10 million due to the unfortunate uptick in deforestation between 2011 (0.054%) and 2012 (0.079%). 
 
RTCC| 27/10-14
By the end of the week, they will have approved the final building block of the UN climate panel's fifth assessment report - a 100-page document bringing together five reports released over the last six years on the state of the world's climate. 

CIFOR Forests | 27/10-14 17:34
In a paper published earlier this year, researchers in the Central African country showed that efforts to mitigate global warming by curbing deforestation can no longer be conducted separately from measures to help people adapt to a degree of inevitable climate change.

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CGD | 10-14
This paper aims to improve our understanding of how and where global supply-chains link consumers of agricultural and forest commodities across the world to forest destruction in tropical countries. A better understanding of these linkages can help inform and support the design of demand-side interventions to reduce tropical deforestation.

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

WWF-Colombia | 22/10-14
This Spanish-language video highlights the work WWF-Colombia is doing around climate change, REDD+, and other forest and climate issues.