REDD
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The five big forest trends of 2012
In the past year, examples abounded of forests being protected or restored on a grand scale. But those successes put the colossal failures and the corrupting forces behind them in stark relief: For too many forests, some combination of rapacious corporate greed, rising global population and consumption (particularly in Asia), local corruption, ignorant or careless […]
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Budget for rainforests puts Obama’s $1 billion pledge at risk
Photo: Rhett A. Butler, MongaBayBoth President Obama’s proposed budget and especially House Republican proposals fall significantly short of the administration’s $1 billion pledge for short-term forest finance made at the Copenhagen climate summit – putting the United States’ climate credibility at even further risk. However modest, the $1 billion pledge was one of the few […]
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Top five forest stories of 2010
In the context of an overall bleak 2010 for the planet, forests offer a bright point for some celebration.
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Bolivia, the Saudi Arabia of obstruction
Bolivia and a small bloc of ultra-leftist allies are obstructing progress on a climate agreement in Cancun, objecting to a market-based forest program.
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World Bank President Zoellick on the need for REDD: "We don’t want silent forests"
Robert Zoellick has been pushing hard on a REDD agreement, primarily as a vehicle to fund impoverished programs to preserve biodiversity.
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Indonesia’s billion-dollar climate experiment
Can rich nations pay Indonesia, a corruption-riddled government, to protect its rainforests?
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Forests poised for major progress in Cancun — if Hugo Chavez and U.S. don't get in the way
The Cancun climate summit may be turning into a surprising opportunity for progress towards saving the world’s forests and other ecosystems.
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What happens now for the forests?
So Copenhagen is over, with forests mentioned in one paragraph of a politically ambiguous “Copenhagen Accord” and an incomplete REDD agreement stapled on the back with major safeguard and finance issues still unresolved. Clearly, high hopes of a deal that might save the world’s forests and reduce the 15-20 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions […]
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Protecting the rainforests: Are we there yet?
COPENHAGEN — Many of us who are here reading the text drafts, talking to ministers and following the negotiations were a bit surprised to read in the New York Times yesterday that we’re about to close a deal on REDD. Vaka0627 via FlickrIt’s true, negotiations have progressed, and balanced-but-far-from-completely-resolved text moved early this morning from […]