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The need to jump-start REDD to save forests
2013-03-08 18:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: At least US$7.3 billion has been pledged for REDD+ over the period from 2008 to 2015, with $4.3 billion pledged for REDD+ readiness during the fast-start period alone (2010-2012). In addition to these funds, private investors, private foundations, and others have been channeling financial support to developing countries for REDD+ and related programs for several years now. Despite the great momentum REDD+ has achieved, information regarding which activities are being implemented as well as the...
Indonesia: Communities under REDD+
2013-03-04 09:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Jakarta Post: Indonesia possesses some of worlds richest forests in terms of biodiversity, carbon values and sheer beauty. The nations forests have fostered a diversity of cultural systems and are home to around 32,000 forest villages representing 36 percent of the countrys rural population. For centuries, rural communities have utilized and protected these forests, recognizing their economic, cultural and spiritual importance. Communities act as stewards of endangered biodiversity and terrestrial carbon...
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Experts Look Ahead to California REDD
2013-02-22 02:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecosystem Marketplace: In November 2010, the Governors of California, Chiapas and Acre -- all members of the Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF) -- signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote collaborative efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). Through the MOU, the REDD+ Offset Working Group (ROW) was created February 2011, tasking 11 technical experts with providing guidance on the policy, legal framework and performance standards participating governments should...
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Finance major challenge facing REDD
2013-02-13 13:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Weve been talking about REDD for a long time, but there is still a lot to be done. Were still building a common approach and looking at finance, Chacko says. Each area is different, but its imp that there are common approaches, that rights are respected, that there is environmental ingrity, that the way people count carbon in REDD is the same, so that we understand what we are accomplishing with REDD. The biggest challenge is finance. We have seen some financing flow but its not clear...
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Experts outline how REDD+ credits could fit into California's cap-and-trade program
2013-01-27 07:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Carbon credits generated by forest conservation activities in tropical countries could play a role in California's cap-and-trade program, helping mitigate climate change and providing benefits to local communities, said a panel of experts on Friday. The panel, known as the REDD+ Offset Working Group, issued a set of draft recommendations on how the states of Acre in Brazil and Chiapas in Mexico could link efforts to reduce deforestation with the State of Californias new cap-and-trade system....
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