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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 27 Feb. '15
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Once Noticias | 26/02-15
Los avances del Sistema de Medición, Reporte y Verificación (MRV) para reducir las emisiones por deforestación y degradación forestal con el que cuenta México se presentarán a mediados de este año, junto con una propuesta de nivel de referencia de las emisiones forestales nacionales que fue entregada para su revisión en la COP20 celebrada en Lima, Perú...

All Africa | 24/02-15
The latest UNEP Emissions Gap Report released in November 2014 indicated that the world only have an estimated budget of 1000 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide that can be emitted into the atmosphere and exceeding this budget would increase the risk of severe, pervasive and in some cases irreversible climate change impacts.

Ecosystem Marketplace | 24/02-15
INDCs emerged in the closing hours of the 2013 talks in Warsaw, and they were designed to end the futile 20-year quest for a top-down global climate-change treaty that's designed to be one-size-fits all but almost always ended up suiting no one. In place of that Quixotic quest, we now have a combination of bottom-up and top-down initiatives: INDCs are the bottom-up part, and the treaty currently working its way through the UN process is the top-down part. 

Journal Articles & Publications

Community-based Monitoring, Reporting and Verification
WWF | 02-15
This report, Community-based Monitoring, Reporting and Verification Know-How: Sharing knowledge from practices highlights the impacts, challenges, lessons learned and trends that emerged from a recent workshop on the topic in Guyana, and serves as a resource for others focused on similar efforts.

CIFOR | 02-15
Conservation and monitoring of tropical forests requires accurate information on their extent and change dynamics. Cloud cover, sensor errors and technical barriers associated with satellite remote sensing data continue to prevent many national and sub-national REDD+ initiatives from developing their reference deforestation and forest degradation emission levels.


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WWF/Forest Trends | 11/03-15
Wed, Mar 11, 2015 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT. Presenters from Forest Trends will discuss their REDD+ EXpenditures Tracking Initiative (REDDX). REDDX was launched in 2011 to provide greater transparency around the financial flows that have been committed for REDD+ programs.

NASA | 05-15
Course Dates: Five 1-hour sessions, each session will be held two times a day to allow for national and international participation from different time zones. Course Objectives: Provide an overview of remote sensing, details on how to access and visualize relevant NASA Earth science data, and how to use these data for conservation and biodiversity issues. 

The World Bank| 02-15
55% of carbon in Amazon is in indigenous territories and protected lands, and much of it at risk. In this webinar, coauthors of the paper Forest carbon in Amazonia: the unrecognized contribution of indigenous territories and protected natural areas will discuss how carbon sequestration is a widely acknowledged and increasingly valued function of tropical forest ecosystems...