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Protecting Forests and Growing REDD+
2013-07-04 13:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Center for Global Development: My guest this week is Frances Seymour, our newest senior fellow at the Center and one of the world's top authorities on the complex issues at the intersection of tropical forests, development and climate change. Before joining CGD, Frances was for six years director general of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), a nonprofit, global organization based in Indonesia that that is one of 15 research centers affiliated with the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research...
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Australia terminates landmark REDD+ project in Borneo
2013-07-03 15:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Australia is ending its major forest restoration project in Indonesian Borneo, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Launched during the peak of excitement about the potential of forest conservation to help mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in 2007, the $47 million initiative aimed to restore 200,000 hectares of peatland that had been drained for the ill-conceived mega-rice project in the mid-1990s. The project, known as the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP), would have re-flooded...
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Why Panama's indigenous pulled out of the UN's REDD program
2013-06-25 16:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: An Interview with Cacique Betanio Chiquidama, National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples of Panama This week in Lombok, Indonesia, the Policy Board of the United Nations climate change program known as UNREDD is addressing the first major test of the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples of the United Nations (UN DRIP), which recognizes the right of Indigenous People to stop projects in their territories that could endanger their traditions and livelihoods. The National Coordinating...
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Does UN REDD+ Help or Hurt Indigenous Peoples?
2013-06-19 03:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
First Peoples Worldwide: The United Nations Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) program garnered conflicting opinions at the recent UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), held May 20-31 in New York City. Under REDD+, in return for not allowing extractive industries to destroy forests, countries are granted monetary rewards equivalent to what they would have received from those industries. The UN report on the program, released in February, states that REDD+ can be a mechanism for achieving...
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Pumas forest efforts prove how REDD+ matters to business
2013-06-08 12:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
GreenBiz: What are corporate leaders to do once they realize that their environmental impacts are significant and undercutting the very structure and function of the green infrastructure upon which we all rely? Honestly, business leaders will need to roll up their sleeves and begin to think about aspirational goals and systemic innovation around products, services and business models. In the interim, while significant innovation is underway, it will be important to signal to investors and other stakeholders,...
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