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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 23 Jan. '15
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CIFOR | 22/01-15
When teamed with traditional forestry techniques, these high-tech approaches may revolutionize the way we monitor forests, experts believe.With the effects of climate change becoming ever clearer, advances in forest monitoring are vital.

AllAfrica | 22/01-15
The proximity of Nassarawa state to the nation's capital was to be an advantage when there was massive demolition in the Federal Capital Territory in the year 2004, as most of the displaced persons found solace in the state.

Ecosystem Marketplace | 21/01-15
Seen from above, the indigenous territories in the Amazon's "Arc of Deforestation" appear as solid green islands amid a sea of grey-green degradation. This bird's eye view corroborates the studies that say indigenous peoples are the best guardians of the forest. But like all maps, they show just a snapshot in time.

Skoll Foundation | 21/01-15
The overall trend in REDD+ investments is a positive one, as donor countries have continued to make financial commitments in the seven REDDX pilot countries from 2009 through 2012.

CIFOR | 21/01-15
REDD+ payments alone may not be enough to overpower the economics of deforestation in some cases, the proponents of a REDD+ pilot project in Vietnam found. Richard McNally, the REDD+ Global Coordinator for the Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) was involved in the Cat Loc Landscape - Cat Tien National Park Pro-Poor REDD+ Project, located just north of Ho Chi Minh City, in one of Vietnam's largest and best-known national parks.

AllAfrica | 20/01-15
You don't have to go far in Bolivia to find treasure. It's everywhere: in the vast Amazonian forests; in Lake Titicaca, which lies nearly four kilometres above sea level in the Andes; in the peaks and rain-gathering waterways of the Andes mountains; or in Bolivia's 2,000 animal species.

ENS | 18/01-15
Tropical forests have a bigger appetite for the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than many scientists have believed - even greater than that of temperate forests, finds a new study led by NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NCAR.

WWF | 15/01-15
University of Puerto Rico released a research paper showing that the highest percentage of Amazonian forest loss, caused by gold mining, occurs across the Guianas. WWF has worked on gold mining issues for many years and published results showing the serious impacts on health, forests and freshwater systems.



Journal Articles & Publications

IOP Science | 01-15 
In this study, we provide a regional assessment of gold mining deforestation in the tropical moist forest biome of South America. Specifically, we analyzed the patterns of forest change in gold mining sites between 2001 and 2013, and evaluated the proximity of gold mining deforestation to protected areas (PAs). 

PNAS | 01-15
Our paper is significant in a number of respects. First, we expand the literature on quasi-experimental evaluation of the causal impact of conservation measure to include agricultural concessions. Second, our report is rare in that we use panel data and techniques in a literature on spatially explicit land-use change econometrics that has necessarily relied upon cross-sectional analyses because of data-availability constraints. 

PNAS | 01-15
Feedbacks from the terrestrial carbon cycle significantly affect future climate change. The CO2 concentration dependence of global terrestrial carbon storage is one of the largest and most uncertain feedbacks. Theory predicts the CO2 effect should have a tropical maximum, but a large terrestrial sink has been contradicted
by analyses of atmospheric CO2 that do not show large tropical uptake


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WWF | 01-15
Chuck is the Senior Technical Officer with WWF-Guyana. In this role, he handles the entire range of (non-marine) WWF work and is involved with supporting Guyana's new protected area system and REDD+.

UNDP | 21/01-15
Overview : Reference No.: IC/UNDP-REDD+/006/2015 Country: Indonesia Description of the assignment: REDD+ Senior Specialist of Legal and Law Enforcement (National, 1 post) Project name: REDD+ Period of assignment/services (if applicable): February 2015 - May 2015.

WWF | 01-15
Pat's most recent big assignment was as overall team leader on a four year evaluation project for Norad, the Norwegian development agency, which ran from 2010 and recently finished with the delivery of the final evaluation report in August, 2014.