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Is it possible to reduce the impact of oil drilling in the Amazon rainforest?
2 May 2013
Oil extraction in the Amazon rainforest has been linked to severe environmental degradation — including deforestation and pollution — which in some areas has spurred violent social conflict. Yet a vast extent of the Colombian, Peruvian, Ecuadorian, Bolivian, and Brazilian Amazon is currently under concession for oil and gas exploration and production. It seems clear that much of this hydrocarbon development is going to proceed whether environmentalists and human rights groups like...
AFP: Indonesia moves towards approving deforestation plan
2 May 2013
JAKARTA — The Indonesian government has said it aims to approve within a month a plan that would free up vast swathes of protected virgin rainforest on Sumatra island for commercial exploitation.
Rights groups reacted with outrage at the news that the plan, which also needs to be passed by the Aceh provincial parliament, was making progress, saying it would only benefit huge foreign companies and not the area's people.
But Canadian mining company East...
Impact of deforestation on wildlife in the greater Mekong - in pictures
2 May 2013
Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam could be left with little more than 10-20% of their original forest cover by 2030
Greater Mekong countries 'lost one-third of forest cover in 40 years'
2 May 2013
Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam have lost nearly 40m ha of forest cover since 1980, a new report showsFive Asian countries have lost nearly one-third of their forests in the last 35 years and could be left with little more than 10-20% of their original cover by 2030 with devastating effects on wildlife and humans, a new report suggests.Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand and Vietnam have lost nearly 40m ha of forest cover since 1980 but have retained about 98m hectares of natural forest...
Can Consumer Goods Companies Achieve Zero Deforestation by 2020?
1 May 2013
Linking deforestation and agricultural sourcing is an important first step.
China uses market-like mechanisms to promote reforestation of sloping lands
1 May 2013
China’s biggest and most successful eco-compensation program so far has been the Conversion of Croplands to Forests and Grasslands, (CCFG) otherwise known as the Sloping Lands Conversion Program. The CCFG aims to convert 14.67 million hectares of cropland to forests and afforest about the same amount of land that is currently wasteland, according to China’s Sloping Land Conversion Program: Institutional Innovation or Business as Usual?
The CCFG program was implemented after...
Interview: la réforme de la tenure forestière avance, mais des questions demeurent
1 May 2013
Cultivateurs de noix du Brésil à Puerto Maldonado au Pérou. CIFOR/Gabriela Ramírez Galindo
LIMA, Pérou (10 Avril 2013) – Au cours des trente dernières années, au moins 200 millions d’hectares de forêt* ont été légalement transférés à des communautés locales ou à des populations autochtones. Par conséquent, les communautés possèdent ou gèrent maintenant un peu plus de 11% des forêts du monde – 22% dans les pays en voie de développement.
« Il y a une plus grande acceptation de l...
Microsoft Carbon Fee Funds Cambodian Community Forestry
30 Apr 2013
One project Microsoft is investing in is the Oddar Meanchey forest ... Corridor REDD project that aims to protect 500000 acres of forest under threat in ...
China Uses Market-Like Mechanisms To Promote Reforestation Of ...
30 Apr 2013
This includes direct payments from government to individuals or community suppliers of watershed ecosystem services. It covers compensation to households or ...Ecosystem Marketplace
UN-REDD Newsletter Highlights Workshops on Safeguards, Gender and the Green Economy
30 Apr 2013
The April edition of the newsletter of the UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD) highlights climate finance activities in Bangladesh and the establishment of a national REDD+ taskforce in Cambodia.