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• Changing drivers of deforestation provides new opportunities for conservation

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Tropical deforestation claimed roughly 13 million hectares of forest per year during the first half of this decade, about the same rate of loss as the 1990s. But while the overall numbers have remained relatively constant, they mask a transition of great significance: a shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven ...
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• Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  A rainforest tribe fighting to save their territory from loggers owns the carbon-trading rights to their land, according to a legal opinion released today by Baker & McKenzie, one of the world’s largest law firms. The opinion, which was commissioned by Forest Trends, a Washington, D.C.-based forest conservation ...
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• REDD in Madagascar

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Despite damage from ongoing illegal logging, Madagascars remaining forests are poised to benefit from the proposed REDD mechanism, a U.N.-backed scheme that would compensate tropical developing countries for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, reports a new paper that analyzes efforts to use carbon ...
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• What can the National Lake Assessment Tell Us about Ecosystem Se...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  The condition of lakes, ponds, and reservoirs is often viewed as existing along a continuum from pristine to impacted. The 2007 National Lake Survey was conducted to assess the condition of the nation?s lakes. Over 1,000 lakes were surveyed and detailed physical and chemical data were collected. Field crews also ...
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• U.S. cap-and-trade payments could help end Amazon deforestation, reduce CO2 emissions 2-5%

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Funds generated under a U.S. cap-and-trade or a broader U.N.-supported scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and degradation ("REDD") could play a critical role in bringing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon to a halt, reports a team writing in the journal Science . But the window of ...
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• Brazil could halt Amazon deforestation within a decade

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  Funds generated under a U.S. cap-and-trade or a broader U.N.-supported scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and degradation ("REDD") could play a critical role in bringing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon to a halt, reports a team writing in the journal Science . But the window of ...
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• Green India Mission to enhance forest cover: Jairam Ramesh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  New Delhi, Nov 30 (ANI): The Union Government on Monday clarified that the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) includes a Mission on ‘Green India,’ that would enhance ecosystem services and focus on increasing forest cover.In a written reply to lawmakers N.K. Singh and Jayanthi Natarajan, Union Minister ...
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• Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  A new handbook lays out the methodology for cultural mapping, providing indigenous groups with a powerful tool for defending their land and culture, while enabling them to benefit from some 21st century advancements. Cultural mapping may also facilitate indigenous efforts to win recognition and compensation under a ...
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• Fall in rice strains highlights Chinas biodiversity gap

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 485
  Shanshan Li in SciDev.net : The number of Chinas rice varieties has dramatically decreased, raising fears about the countrys food security and biodiversity. China had 46,000 rice varieties in the 1950s, but this plummeted to just 1,000 in 2006, according to a Chinese study published in BioScience this month ...
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• A fair deal for forest people: working to ensure that REDD forests bear fruit for local communities

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  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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• Solomon Islands: A Community Model for Global Conservation

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 475
  (Above video: Geoff Lipsett-Moore, director of conservation for the Conservancy’s Melanesia program , celebrates along with other Conservancy staff and chiefs from Choiseul province in the Solomon Islands celebrate the community’s support for two Conservancy recommendations at the 2009 annual meeting of the ...
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• Cool Green Morning: Tuesday, November 24

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 475
  Sorry to be a Debbie Downer, but today’s news isn’t uplifting: the global water problem needs more attention, oceans are becoming less effective at storing CO2 and we’ve underestimated the pace and extent of climate change . Oh, and Obama loses to Nasheed in the ring. Let’s hold out hope that the sun will ...
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• Forever is a very long time indeed

  
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  Market Designer: a grave problem of-supply and demand Wanna rent an apartment – forever? Grave sites, once sold and occupied, are intended to be occupied for a very long time, and their sale can’t easily be negotiated if more valuable uses turn up. So there is less turnouver than in other kinds of real estate, ...
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• Deforestation emissions should be shared between producer and consumer, argues study

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  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

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  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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• Oceans ability to sequester carbon diminishing

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  A new study—the first of its kind—has completed an annual accounting of the oceans intake of carbon over the past 250 years, and the news is troubling. According to the study, published in Nature , the oceans ability to sequester carbon is struggling to keep-up with mankinds ever-growing emissions. Since 2000 ...
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• Decision Support Framework (DSF) Team Research Implementation Pl...

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  The mission of ORDs Ecosystem Services Research Program (ESRP) is to provide the information and methods needed by decision-makers to assess the benefits of ecosystem goods and services to human well-being for inclusion in management alternatives. The Decision Support Framework (DSF) team is one of 15 teams that ...
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• Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of private landowners, potentially harmed by plantations

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  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

  
  Mongabay.com News — Authority: 142
  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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• The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB)

  
  RFF Library Blog — Authority: 140
  The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme http://www.teebweb.org/ [ From Greenwire article ] Investing billions of dollars today to protect threatened ecosystems and halt biodiversity loss could result in huge cost savings in the long-term, according to a ...
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