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‘Selling the oxygen to the gringos’: Attitudes change toward REDD+
SAO PAOLO, Brazil _ Public support is growing in Brazil for a global climate change scheme that could see the…
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Getting the laws in place in Brazil to move forward with REDD+
SAO PAOLO, Brazil _ Virgilio Viana, one of Brazil’s leading movers and shakers on climate change and rainforests, said he…
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Putting the squeeze: Brazil cuts off credit to illegal loggers
MATO GROSSO, Brazil _ With fines for illegal deforestation rarely paid, Brazil is using a novel approach to save the…
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Amazon ranchers use one hectare per cow to feed growing global appetite for meat
MATO GROSSO, Brazil _ Though the rate of deforestation in the Amazon has dropped, about 6,000 square kilometers is still…
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Protecting forests, fighting climate change: Searching for lessons in the Amazon
THE AMAZON, Brazil _ Looking down from a tiny plane above the Amazon, a blanket of patchy green stretches to…
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Will the real owner please stand up: Land tenure confusion threatens REDD+ in Brazil
MATO GROSSO, Brazil _ A lack of progress in fixing a murky system of land ownership and land-use rules in…
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Agus Purnomo’s key messages for forest and climate change
JAKARTA, Indonesia (29 April, 2011)_Indonesia’s chief climate change negotiator, Agus Purnomo today discussed the difficulties between balancing a growing economy and…
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REDD+ Taskforce Reaches Out to Palm Oil Companies
JAKARTA, Indonesia (28 April 2011)_Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, Head of the President’s Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight and Chair of…
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Mangroves key to climate change
BOGOR, Indonesia (April 5, 2011)_A new study has just been published showing that mangroves store exceptionally more carbon than most…
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Agriculture and Forests: From Sparing to Sharing
Nathan Russell, CIMMYT Agriculture is the main driver of deforestation, so it is simply too important to be ignored in…
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