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“The honeymoon for REDD+ is over”: consensus not yet reached in Doha on MRV, finance
DOHA, Qatar (4 December, 2012)_Negotiators at the U.N. climate talks in Doha this past week did not reach consensus to…
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Looking back on Forest Day
DOHA, Qatar (2 December, 2012)_The world’s top forestry experts and high-profile decision makers gathered on the sidelines of the UN Climate…
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“Come out of the forest” to save the trees
DOHA, QATAR (2 December 2012)_Forestry experts have called for a new approach to managing land and tackling climate change –…
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Biodiversity & climate negotiators must “talk to each other” for the sake of REDD+, urges Belgium
DOHA, Qatar (30 November, 2012)_Country negotiators in the U.N climate change and biodiversity talks need to communicate better before developing…
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Scientists pinpoint activities driving deforestation and urge countries to take action at Doha
DOHA, Qatar (27 November 2012)_For the first time scientists have assessed the main activities driving deforestation and forest degradation at…
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VIDEO: Why it’s time to protect biodiversity – nature’s safety net
BOGOR, Indonesia (5 October, 2012)_Biodiversity provides a safety net for humans and wildlife but climate change is having an increasingly…
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Açaí: could the wonder fruit also be wonderful for forests?
SEOUL, South Korea (12 September, 2012)_The increased cultivation of açaí — the purple fruit that dangles from palms in the…
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Are conservation projects succeeding in the Lower Mekong Basin?
JEJU, South Korea (10 September, 2012)_ For thousands of years, the people living on the banks of the Mekong river…
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Just add trees: How greening concrete jungles will help us adapt to a warming world
JEJU, South Korea (10 September, 2012)_People crowd together under umbrellas at Ogbette market in the Nigerian city of Enugu in…
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