Climate change & energy
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Tackling environmental dilemmas in the Congo
How can we convince farmers that they should not cut down trees which bring them much needed energy and shelter?…
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REDD News Update Indonesia
BOGOR, Indonesia (February 28 2011)_Run by CIFOR and several partner organisations around the world, the 4-year Global Comparative Study (GCS)…
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Bringing Youth to Forests to Raise Awareness
Most of the young people sitting in the room to discuss forest and climate change shook their heads when asked…
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Cancun climate change framework just a skeleton, but still a win for adaptation
While much of the world’s attention to climate change has been focused on mitigation _ how to slow the rate…
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Rwanda Launches Plan to Reverse Environmental Degradation
Rwanda, the most densely populated nation in Sub-Saharan Africa, has launched a national plan to reverse the current degradation of…
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Stewart Maginnis on Poverty and Forest Restoration
Stewart Maginnis is the Head of the Forest Conservation Programme at the International Union for Conservation of Nature. He has…
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Biodiversity goals need to be integrated into forest policy
Some of the targets agreed upon during 2010’s International Year of Biodiversity could potentially spark key actions during the recently…
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A Year to rethink, replant and realise that we can’t survive on a denuded planet
On Wednesday, the United Nations declared 2011 as the International Year of Forests, as part of a campaign to raise…
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Reflections from a south-south exchange: what works in sustainable and equitable oil palm development for food and biofuels?
BOGOR, Indonesia (15 December, 2011)_Last September, CIFOR Research Domain 5 on “Managing the impacts of globalized trade and investment on…
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A REDD+ Deal Likely to Be Made This Week
By Angela Dewan CIFOR scientist Louis Verchot gives an update on REDD+ negotiations in Cancun. He says a REDD+ framework…
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Debunking the Myths of a REDD+ Market
By Angela Dewan A binding deal on the REDD+ scheme to conserve the world’s forests has never been so close.…
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Getting REDD+ Right
By Angela Dewan The idea that developed countries could pay developing countries to conserve their forests has come a long…
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UNFCCC Adaptation Fund cites CIFOR-CATIE Honduras study
Results from a joint study between CIFOR and CATIE on tropical forests and climate change adaptation in Honduras were cited…
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An Open Letter about Scientific Credibility and the Conservation of Tropical Forests
Released by a group of distinguished scientists led by Professor Bill Laurance To whom it may concern: As professional scientists…
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Certifying the Timber Trade
By Angela Dewan As countries that cut down swathes of forest face mounting pressure from the world to stop, many…
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