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• No-shows among South American leaders at Amazon summit

  
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  A summit between South American leaders to devise a plan to save the Amazon, failed to come up with a "common stance" on deforestation, as five of the eight invited leaders failed to show up to the meeting, reports Al Jazeera.
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• A fair deal for forest people: working to ensure that REDD forests bear fruit for local communities

  
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  As world leaders meet to thrash out the next incarnation of the Kyoto climate agreement, the world waits with baited breath to see how greenhouse gas emissions from forests might be included. Despite the high powered nature of these important global decisions, the success of REDD will ultimately be decided by humble ...
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• REDD may not be enough to save Sumatras endangered lowland rainforests

  
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  A prominent REDD project in Aceh Indonesia probably wont be enough to save Northern Sumatras endangered lowland rainforests from logging and conversion to oil plantations and agriculture, report researchers writing in Environmental Research Letters. The study highlights the contradiction between the Ulu Masen ...
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• Reforestation: Challenges and Opportunities

  
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  Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is a timeless issue that has been propounded into the public knowledge sphere since I was a child. Always eager to learn the actuality of environmental propaganda, I have been tracking reforestation practices since 2001. I first ground-truthed the realities of sustainable ...
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• Google – the new eye in the sky for protecting forests?

  
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  Google looks set to play a part in a called-for "new environmental world order" by satellite-monitoring the rates of deforestation of tropical rainforests and pinpointing illegal logging and land misuse, Google’s Northern and Central Europe head Philipp Schindler has revealed. Schindler made the announcement in ...
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• U.S. pledges $275M to rainforest conservation

  
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  The U.S. pledged $275 million to efforts to reduce deforestation in developing countries, reports Reuters.
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• Deforestation emissions should be shared between producer and consumer, argues study

  
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  Under the Kyoto Protocol the nation that produces carbon emission takes responsibility for them, but what about when the country is producing carbon-intensive goods for consumer demand beyond its borders? For example while China is now the worlds highest carbon emitter, 50 percent of its growth over the last year was ...
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• REDD may increase the cost of conservation of non-forest ecosystems

  
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  Policy-makers designing a climate change mitigation mechanism that will reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) arent doing enough to ensure that the scheme protects biodiversity outside carbon-dense ecosystems, argues an editorial published in Current Biology by a group of scientists.
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• Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of private landowners, potentially harmed by plantations

  
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  Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation [REDD] programs that include landowners will conserve more habitat and ensure greater ecosystem services function than programs that focus solely on protected areas, report researchers from the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), the Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental ...
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• Coastal habitats may sequester 50 times more carbon than tropical forests by area

  
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  Highly endangered coastal habitats are incredibly effective in sequestering carbon and locking it away in soil, according to a new paper in a report by the IUCN. The paper attests that coastal habitats—such as mangroves, sea grasses, and salt marhses—sequester as much as 50 times the amount of carbon in their soil ...
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• Financial Accounting for Forest Carbon Offsets and Assets

  
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  Poised to wreak havoc on the climate of Earth, our only home, is a phenomenon we’ve been observing for 150 years: an increase in Earth’s mean temperature. To mitigate the global climatic disruption that humans put into motion long ago, the actors in the forest carbon offset market encourage landowners to sequester ...
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• Countries that invest in conservation will see higher financial returns, argues report

  
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  A new report issued by the The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) initiative makes a strong case for valuing the planets ecosystem services. The report calls for investments in "ecological infrastructure" to protect wildlands and the services they provide; market-based valuation of ecosystem services; ...
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• Norway to give Guyana up to $250M for rainforest conservation

  
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  Norway will provide up to $250 million to Guyana as part of the South American countrys effort to avoid emissions from deforestation.
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• Important safeguards to protect rainforests lacking in REDD negotiating text

  
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  Important safeguards to protect natural forests are still lacking in negotiating text on REDD, a proposed mechanism for mitigating climate change by paying developing countries to keep trees standing, reports an alliance of activist groups.
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• Emissions from deforestation overestimated; 12% rather than 17%

  
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  Greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation are lower than previously believed, according to a new study published in Nature Geoscience . The findings mean that developing countries may see less money under Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, a proposed climate change mitigation mechanism.
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• Disney commits $4 million to rainforest conservation in the Amazon, Congo

  
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  The Walt Disney Company will invest $7 million in forest conservation projects in the U.S., the Congo Basin, and the Amazon in an effort to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
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• Using forests to finance conservation and communities in a former war zone: Colombias Choco

  
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  Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), a climate change mechanism proposed by the U.N., has been widely lauded for its potential to simultaneously deliver a variety of benefits at multiple scales. But serious questions remain, especially in regard to local communities. Will they benefit from ...
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• Without reinstatement of key provision, REDD could subsidize large-scale forest destruction

  
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  The elimination of a key provision from the negotiating text for the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation in developing countries (REDD) mechanism could turn the proposed climate change mitigation scheme into a subsidy for large-scale conversion of natural forests to industrial plantations, warned ...
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• Brazil to support REDD in Copenhagen

  
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  Brazil will conditionally support a proposed climate change mitigation scheme that will compensate tropical countries for preserving their forests, reports Reuters.
  4 weeks ago

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