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Indigenous People Call For REDD+ Safeguards In California's Carbon Market
2013-03-30 03:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecosystem Marketplace: Using the REDD+ mechanism to fight deforestation and climate change involves a complicated and lengthy process that crosses over several sectors. Because of its complex nature, Valentino Shal of the Mopan Maya Indigenous people says multi-stakeholder engagement is key to REDD's success. Shal is an Indigenous Social Development Consultant for the Mopan Maya community in southern Belize-a region offering pristine rainforest, mountains and rivers. It's an area that could easily work for a REDD (reducing...
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Indonesias REDD+ pilot province: how is it faring two years on?
2013-03-22 18:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CIFOR: When Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono selected Central Kalimantan as the pilot province for his country`s Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) program, it was widely hoped some of the region`s grave environmental issues - such as large expanses of threatened peatlands and high forest conversion rates - would be addressed. Two years on, it seems many of the same challenges remain, prompting some policy makers and conservationists to name the province...
REDD+ is a false solution
2013-03-22 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
World Rainforest Movement: On the occasion of March 21st, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly as International Day of the Forests (1), the World Rainforest Movement (WRM) and more than 300 signatories call on the General Assembly and UN Institutions and Initiatives related to forest issues to use the new initiative to address the underlying drivers of deforestation. The letter is motivated by the fact that in spite of several UN initiatives aimed at calling attention for forests at the international level, the process...
Disney buys $3.5M in REDD credits from rainforest conservation project in Peru
2013-03-20 06:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The Walt Disney Company has purchased $3.5 million dollars' worth of carbon credits generated via rainforest conservation in Peru, reports Point Carbon. Disney bought 437,000 VCUs (verified carbon units) issued by the Alto Mayo Initiative, a project that aims to protect 2.8 million hectares of tropical forest in northeastern Peru. Alto Mayo is a joint initiative run by the Peruvian government and Conservation International. The credits are generated by reducing emissions from deforestation...
Panama's indigenous people drop REDD+
2013-03-19 14:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: The National Coordinator of Indigenous Peoples in Panama (COONAPIP) has announced it is withdrawing from the United Nation's REDD+ program following a series of disagreements. The exit of COONAPIP from the negotiating table with UN officials and the Panamanian government will likely be a blow to the legitimacy of REDD+ in the central American country. REDD, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, is a program to reduce emissions by safeguarding forests. In a statement COONAPIP...
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