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CIFOR at COP 25: A simple idea, REDD+ meets a complex reality
See events CIFOR and ICRAF are hosting at COP 25 here. A key idea of REDD+ was to pay those…
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Getting Ethiopia REDD+ ready
Forest protection is not usually a huge money spinner. Logging, mining, clearing forests for grazing, or building a new city…
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Time to get serious about evaluating REDD+ impacts
In September, global experts, world leaders and top U.N. officials gathered in New York to double down on efforts to…
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Forests, Tenure, and Climate: Some key recent findings with respect to REDD+ and beyond REDD+
The original article can be read from here and is published by Rights and Resources In spite of widely-recognized challenges,…
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‘Forestry is not fulfilling its promise to the rural poor’
According to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), 250 million people living in and around tropical forests or savannahs…
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Number crunching: Making sense of REDD+ and results-based payments
BONN, Germany (CIFOR) – Making the conservation of tropical forest ecosystems financially attractive for communities and smallholder farmers is critical…
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Collaborating for the Commons
As the environment changes around us, finding solutions to benefit the common good has never been more pressing. Enter multi-stakeholder…
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How do you protect what’s ‘everywhere but nowhere?’
Yesterday Ethiopia began its ambitious 4 billion tree planting program. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, said the mega campaign will…
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Can you trust the numbers?
Millions of dollars are being invested in efforts to reduce the contribution of tropical deforestation to climate change. To find…
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Climate change fuelling war, nature shrinks, plus faith for forest restoration
In Forests News last week: Increasing ecosystem carbon is good for species On International Day of Biological Diversity, a new…
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