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Derechos sobre la tierra: condición e incentivo para los esquemas de REDD+
14 Jun 2013
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica (14 de junio de 2013)_Según los hallazgos de un nuevo estudio, las primeras iniciativas destinadas a reducir las emisiones de carbono evitando la deforestación y degradación forestal (REDD+) también están ayudando a garantizar la tenencia de tierras forestales en Brasil.
REDD+ es un esquema respaldado por las Naciones Unidas que pretende mitigar el cambio climático incentivando a los países en desarrollo a conservar sus bosques tropicales, y muchos lo consideran una forma...
Land rights: Both prerequisite and incentive for smallholder-based REDD+
13 Jun 2013
LIMA, Peru (13 June, 2013)_Incipient initiatives designed to reduce carbon emissions through avoided deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) are also helping to secure forest land tenure in Brazil, a new study has found.
REDD+ is a UN-backed scheme that aims to mitigate global climate change through incentivising developing countries to keep their tropical forests standing – and is also seen by many as a way to promote conservation and bolster rural livelihoods in those forests.
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From words to impacts: The research behind Cameroon’s sustainable palm oil policy
12 Jun 2013
Cameroon has the potential to at least double its palm oil production and eliminate its dependence on imports, without having to encroach on any additional land. Nathan Cooke
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (12 June, 2013)_They had hoped to incite debate. Instead, the authors of a report on oil palm development in Cameroon discovered that they had spurred a national strategy.
“The message we wanted to pass to policymakers and NGOs was that oil palm development can strongly boost economic development and...
BONN CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE - June 2013, Monday, 10 June 2013, Bonn, Germany
11 Jun 2013
International Institute for Sustainable Development - Reporting Services (IISD RS), Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB), Climate Change, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), BONN CLIMATE CHANGE CONFERENCE - June 2013, Monday, 10 June 2013, Bonn, Germany
Indonesia will burn illegal logs to support its verification system
11 Jun 2013
CleanBiz: The Indonesian Government has tabled legislation to eliminate the practice of auctioning off logs that have been seized from illegal logging operations in order to reinforce the integrity of its new certification system.
Currently shipments of illegal logs seized by Indonesian authorities are usually sold through local timber brokers who can offer them to the industries in need of the logs. However, this has led to accusations that brokers are using this arrangement to launder more...
NASA: Deforestation jumps in Malaysia
11 Jun 2013
Deforestation jumped during the first three months of 2013 in Malaysia, Nepal and Mexico, according to a forest tracking tool developed by a team of NASA researchers.
COONAPIP: Panamanian Indigenous People Find Hope in Report From Investigators of UN Climate Change Program
10 Jun 2013
Press Release
At Briefing in Panama City, Nation’s Indigenous Leaders Respond to Signs UN REDD will Respond to Demand for Key Role in Climate Change Program
PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (7 JUNE 2013)— Independent United Nations investigators announced today at a briefing that officials with a global climate change program should correct their strategy in Panama, and work more directly with indigenous leaders in devising ways of protecting the...
Q+A: Can REDD+ produce measurable results in the next 3 years?
10 Jun 2013
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Integrating REDD+ into a green economy transition: opportunities and challenges
10 Jun 2013
This paper produced in partnership with UNEP and the UN-REPP prgramme outlines a rationale for integrating REDD+ within the green economy transition and initiates thinking on how this might be achieved in advance of a global syposium in Jarkarta in June 2013.
Malaysian palm oil firm to establish $744m, 180,000 ha plantation in Congo
9 Jun 2013
Wah Soeng Berhad, a Malaysian conglomerate, will invest $744 million over the next decade to establish oil palm plantations in Republic of Congo