Measuring the effectiveness of subnational REDD+ initiatives
Forests play a central role in climate change mitigation, as recognized by the Paris Agreement. Over the last decade, hundreds…
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Green Climate Fund steps up to reduce deforestation and forest degradation
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) recently adopted two new decisions intended to reduce global emissions from deforestation and forest degradation,…
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Is REDD+ playing fair?
What if more forests could be saved – and carbon emissions thus lowered- if conservation projects strictly followed one basic…
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The cost of missed opportunities
It is clear that REDD+ has changed from what was first envisaged. First formulated in 2005 as part of the…
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Forests, people and data
Growing up in a village in Indonesia’s Central Java in the 1980s, Dian Ekowati went to the local Posyandu every…
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REDD+ results-based finance
As we approach the next meeting of the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), we can expect a significant…
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Can REDD+ help Brazil roll back rising deforestation rates?
Land-use change represents more than 60 percent of Brazil’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and the Amazon accounts for 65.2 percent…
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The jumbo carbon footprint of shrimp
You’re having dinner with your date. You both order the ‘surf and turf’ special: a shrimp appetizer and a steak.…
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Lera Miles of UN Environment: ‘There’s much more peatland there than anyone had ever anticipated’
Will the recent discovery of peat in the Congo Basin be a boon or a liability for global climate change…
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Congo’s hidden carbon
Underneath the swamp forests and palm trees of the Congo Basin lies a hidden wealth: more than 145,000 square kilometers…
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‘Black gold’ for climate mitigation
New tools and new discoveries are drastically altering our existing knowledge of peatlands. Scientists have recently discovered the existence of…
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Getting down to business in Bonn
The 46th sessions of the UN Climate Convention Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 46) and Subsidiary Body for Scientific and…
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