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  Another Confusing Report for Carbon Emissions
  Who is right or wrong when it comes to reporting carbon emissions?
  by breetreport / on Nov 5, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “deforestation”

• Nations Argue Over CO2 Emissions Cuts, Audits

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  The measurement, reporting and auditing of greenhouse gas emissions by each country is a key focus of U.N. climate negotiations leading up to climate talks in Copenhagen in December, reports Reuters.Rich nations are under pressure to cut their emissions 25-40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020 and spend billions in aid ...
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• 40% of lowland forests in Sumatra and Indonesian Borneo cleared in 15 years

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 443
  Source: Mongabay Forty percent of lowland forests in Sumatra and Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) were cleared from 1990 to 2005, reports a high resolution assessment of land cover change in Indonesia. The research, conducted by Matthew Hansen of South Dakota State University, and colleagues, found that Indonesia ...
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• Is man on course to cause the sixth extinction?

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 443
  Forthcoming book examines the role of humans in the eradication of species, and its findings are not likely to be pleasant Robin McKie Source: The Observer At first sight it seems an unlikely topic for a landmark publishing deal: a fee of about half a million dollars for a book about dead animals – or, to be ...
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• Climate Change And the Women’s Movement: Wise Lessons for the Future

  
  Global Fund for Women — Authority: 113
  by Annie Wilkinson This is part 2 of a blog focus on climate change.  Read Part 1 . Global Fund grantee, Women’s Action for Change in Fiji While 350 was abuzz here in the United States and also globally, it’s an interesting moment to also pay closer attention to how the women’s movement is responding to ...
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• REDD discussions in Barcelona

  
  boilingspot — Authority: 110
  By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 9th November 2009 On the final day of the UN climate change negotiations in Barcelona, two climate activists walked to the front of the main plenary and held up a banner reading “End CO2lonialism”. “They shouted about the dangers of carbon trading and were met with ...
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• Study Finds More Value in Peat CO2 Credits

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  Carbon-rich peatlands may trap more greenhouse gases than first thought, driving up their potential value on the carbon market, according to a new study, reports Reuters.Huge amounts of greenhouse gases are released when peatlands are logged or drained for agriculture, and even more when the dried bogs catch fire and ...
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• El Salvador floods claim at least 124 lives

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 448
  Massive flooding in five regions in El Salvador has taken the lives of 124 people, with reports of deaths still coming in as the country struggles to cope. Some 7,000 homes have been damaged. The hardest hit areas appear to be San Salvador, the capital, and San Vicente province in the centre of the country. The ...
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• A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 108
  You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket.  Apples in June.  Watermelons in February.  Oranges in December.  Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season.  So how do we have these fruits and vegetables when it is not time for them to be picked. Most of our ...
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• Hunting across Southeast Asia weakens forests survival, An interview with Richard Corlett

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  A large flying fox eats a fruit ingesting its seeds. Flying over the tropical forests it eventually deposits the seeds at the base of another tree far from the first. One of these seeds takes root, sprouts, and in thirty years time a new tree waits for another flying fox to spread its speed. In the Southeast Asian ...
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• The tree nursery grows again…

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  As the rains enter full swing, the staff and volunteers at The Colobus Trust have been working hard to prepare the tree nursery for what is surely one of its busiest seasons. This week, Dougie and John took it upon themselves to start sorting through the various plants and trees which make up Read more: The tree ...
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• Developer uses cover of national holiday to clear rainforest near Colon, Panama

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  On Tuesday, November 3rd, while Panamanians celebrated Independence Day Holidays, heavy machinery unexpectedly entered and began cutting down tropical forest and mangroves near Galeta outside of Colon, Panama, report local sources. mongabay.com confirmed that the latest clearing has been carried out "almost in secret ...
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• REDD Forest Protection Scheme Still Missing Key Safeguards as Barcelona Climate Talks Close

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 722
  photo: Felix Francis via flickr. As the last official negotiations before the COP15 climate talks came to a close in Barcelona, progress on REDD forest protection scheme negotiations hit a new low. Thats the word from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance , which says several key safeguards, as well as explicit ...
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• Forestry Talks in Barcelona End in Toothless Agreement

  
  Solve Climate: Daily Climate News and Opinion — Authority: 603
  Reporting from Barcelona, Spain Hopes for a strong global deal that would pay poor nations to stop deforestation hit a new low on Friday after negotiators at the climate talks in Barcelona released a draft proposal that lacks teeth. The new text on reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation, called REDD, ...
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• Disney Gives $1 mn to Peru Forest Conservation

  
  Peruvian Times — Authority: 129
  The Walt Disney Company is to invest $7 million this year in forest conservation programs, $1 million of which will be given to the Alto Mayo Protection Forest in the department... [For the complete story, enter PeruvianTimes.com]
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• Palm Oil in the Spotlight: Plantations Threaten Rare Cats, Peatland Emissions Increasing + A Small Victory

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 722
  It looks like forest, but its a palm oil plantation... photo: sampsadaily via flickr. Three stories coming in focusing on deforestation , climate change and biodiversity: Scientists point out that when it comes to carbon emissions from peatland loss SE Asia leads the way; development of Read the full story on ...
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• Important safeguards to protect rainforests lacking in REDD negotiating text

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  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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• How to restore a tropical rain forest

  
  ConservationBytes.com — Authority: 112
  Here’s a little story for you about how a casual chat over a glass of wine (or many) can lead to great scientific endeavours. A few years ago I was sitting in the living room of my good friends Noel Preece and Penny van Oosterzee in Darwin chatting about life, the universe, and everything. They rather casually ...
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• Worlds first video of the elusive and endangered bay cat

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 136
  Rare, elusive, and endangered by habitat loss, the bay cat is one of the worlds least studied wild cats. Several specimens of the cat were collected in the 19th and 20th Century, but a living cat wasnt even photographed until 1998. Now, researchers in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, have managed to capture the first film of ...
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• No to Copenhagen ‘Carbon Logging’ — YES to Orangutans

  
  World Zoo Today — Authority: 443
  GOOD REDD Fully Protects and Restores Old Forests as a Global Climatic Imperative By ClimateArk Climate Change Portal – a project of Ecological Internet http://www.climateark.org/ November 5, 2009 Copenhagen climate talks must not provide ‘Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation’ (REDD) carbon ...
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• The tree nursery grows again…

  
  Colobus Trust — Authority: 412
  As the rains enter full swing, the staff and volunteers at The Colobus Trust have been working hard to prepare the tree nursery for what is surely one of its busiest seasons. This week, Dougie and John took it upon themselves to start sorting through the various plants and trees which make up the nursery. Visitors to ...
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