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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 7 Nov. '14
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CIFOR| 06/11-14
Millions of hectares of land in Peru are subject to overlapping claims, giving some indication of the complexity of land-use classification and titling in the country. Decentralization is one of the reasons for this; land-use powers and responsibilities have started to be distributed across government agencies and directorates that often have competing mandates and powers related to land use.

RTCC| 06/11-14
They call themselves "climate project evaluators", but are "sleuths and superheroes" according to Andrew Steer, a former UK government and World Bank official, now running the influential World Resources Institute.

Andina | 05/11-14
Peru and Venezuela will co-chair the Social PreCOP on Climate Change that will bring together ministers and civil society representatives as part of a preparatory meeting prior to the Twentieth Conference of the Parties (COP20), to be held in Lima, Peru next month.

The Nature Conservancy | 05/11-14
The fields of nature conservation science and practice have spent the last few years in a bit of an identity crisis. Conflict has been growing around which values should sit at the core of the field, and which kinds of actions should be used to secure a thriving planet. 

CIFOR | 05/11-14
The method enables researchers "to see in an indirect way" the ecological effects of so-called selective logging, says Denis Sonwa, a senior scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and a co-author of the study. This type of logging tends to remove the largest trees and can lead to gaps in the canopy.

Jakarta Globe | 04/11-14
When Indonesia signed a $1 billion deal with Norway in 2010 on a program to halt deforestation, then-president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono set up a task force to oversee the program's initiatives for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, or REDD+.

World Resources Institute | 03/11-14
The power sector is the largest source of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, making up 32 percent of the total. And while the grid is starting to decarbonize-carbon dioxide emissions from the sector dropped 15 percent between 2005 and 2013-the country still has much further to go to limit sea level rise, drought, and other effects of climate change.

The Guardian | 02/11-14
Climate change is set to inflict "severe, widespread, and irreversible impacts" on people and the natural world unless carbon emissions are cut sharply and rapidly, according to the most important assessment of global warming yet published.


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CGD | 22/10-14
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. 

WWF | 22/10-14
This REDD+ Inspiring Practice highlights the participatory development of social and environmental safeguards for REDD+ by Afro-Colombian communities in Colombia's Pacific region. These historically marginalized communities face significant threats to their rights and traditional ways of life from deforestation and forest degradation and from a proliferation of poorly implemented REDD+ initiatives in the region. 
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WWF | 17/11-14
In this learning session, Josefina Braņa-Varela, Policy Director of the WWF Forest and Climate Programme, will discuss the challenges and opportunities for REDD+ at the upcoming UNFCCC COP20 in Lima, Peru.