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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 20 Feb. '15
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mediacongo.net | 19/02-15 13:51 
Modèle en matière de la REDD+ dans l'espace des pays du Bassin du Congo, la RDC doit cette réputation pour beaucoup à certaines de ses provinces forestières devenues de véritables laboratoires destinés à nourrir les expérimentations. C'est le cas de la future province de Mai-Ndombe

CIFOR| 18/02-15
The study of national and regional newspapers over a 10-year period found very few articles related to forests and climate change, with initiatives to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (known by the acronym REDD+) barely mentioned. Even in regional newspapers from the Amazon region, where several REDD+ initiatives are currently under way, reporting was either poor or non-existent, leaving much of the general public in the dark as to their progress.

Ecosystem Marketplace | 17/02-15
Climate-change negotiators meeting in Geneva last week agreed on a draft negotiating text, but it was a massive thing - more than 80 pages - full of options and "bracketed" text that will mostly be chipped away between now and the time negotiators meet in Paris.

RTCC | 14/02-15
This is the news from Geneva: there is no news.That was the spin that UN climate chief Christiana Figueres, speaking to the media today, put on this week's set of negotiations. 

Journal Articles & Publications

WWF | 02-15
Community-based monitoring, reporting and verification (CMRV), is the involvement of local people in the monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon stocks and other forest data. This approach to forest monitoring can potentially provide cost-effective and locally collected biomass data, promote equality in benefit sharing, and maximize the social and environmental co-benefits of work around reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, known as REDD+.

CIFOR| 02-15
This paper shows that deforestation rates continue to be low compared to other tropical countries and are concentrated in Kinshasa and Bas-Congo provinces.  While shifting cultivation is identified as a key driver of deforestation, there is some argument that regrowth balances this out in most locations except where population density is shortening fallow periods.

WWF | 02-15
This policy brief conveys WWF's key messages for the new global development agenda. "Securing our Future" makes the case for the need to safeguard the environment and healthy ecosystems to achieve economic growth and poverty eradication.


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FAO | 02-15
Please join our new discussion forum on law, REDD+, and sustainable forest management. The Forestry Department and the Development Law Service of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) are sponsoring the forum. Participation can be in French, Spanish, or English. The forum is open to discussions of your work, problems, and news. 

WWF | 02-15
In this archived session, presenters from the WWF Forest and Climate Programme and the Global Canopy Programme highlight the relevance of community-based monitoring, reporting and verification, share tools and technologies that can make it more effective, discuss the enabling conditions that help make it successful, and wrap up with some key lessons learned.