Climate change & energy
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Interpol expert: Fund distribution for scheme to slow global warming needs to be transparent
BRASILIA, Brazil (28 March, 2013) _ Initiatives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from forest loss (REDD+) need to be…
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Study: Why planting more trees is always a good idea
BOGOR, Indonesia (26 March, 2013)_A new review of strategies to prepare for the impacts of climate change shows that expanding…
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Postcards from the Field: Mud, mud, glorious mangroves
Laughing and spraying each other with a hose, Yasuke Okimoto (Oki) and Sigit Deni Sasmito clean up after a long…
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Could sustainable logging save Indonesia’s mangroves?
It sounds counter-intuitive. Indonesia’s vast mangrove forests, CIFOR has recently discovered, are a valuable carbon sink. They shelter unique species,…
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‘Dirty Science’: Excavating the truth about mangroves and carbon
Chest-deep in brackish, tea-coloured water, a team of scientists wades into a towering mangrove forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. It’s…
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Sharing positive views about forests and trees on the International Day of Forests
Today is the first annual International Day of Forests. From 1972 until now, 21 March was celebrated as World Forestry…
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Thoughts on the 2012 Global Food Policy Report
I had the pleasure of reading the excellent 2012 Global Food Policy Report, released on 14 March by the International…
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REDD+ funds bring new business opportunities to Indonesian villages
Indonesia’s villagers are benefiting from funds provided by an international forest-preserving scheme by cultivating mushrooms instead of relying on unsustainable…
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Villagers manage Indonesia’s old flaming habits with the help of REDD+
Equipped with firemen uniforms, water hoses, a pump and axes, rice farmers in Garantung village on Indonesia’s part of Borneo…
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As forests disappear, orangutans cling for survival in diminishing peat swamps
A little patch of forest, two hectares in size, looks lonely in the vast expanse of oil palm plantations that…
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Mapping Indonesia’s future: integrating indigenous claims to land
Dressed in a red batik shirt and carrying a symbolic long wooden dagger, Dayak tribal leader Lewis K.D.R. prepares for…
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Exchanging forests with degraded lands: a challenge for Indonesia
It’s being touted as a way to reduce deforestation in Indonesia: Give investors — who have already been issued permits…
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Maintaining forestry’s identity among global challenges
We seem to have a new debate in international forestry circles following our recent initiative to hold a global forum…
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