BEST OF 2012: Going once, going twice…the great green land grab
BOGOR, Indonesia (17 September 2012)_“Buy land, they’re not making it anymore!” Mark Twain’s wry observation on the North American land…
5 min readLandscapes for sustainable development
The evolution of Forest Day into a proposed Landscape Day at future UNFCCC COPs, involving agriculture and rural development stakeholders,…
6 min readCOP18 was not good enough: Time to rethink green sectors’ approach for 2015
BOGOR, Indonesia (11 December, 2012)_The UNFCCC COP-18 in Doha worked overtime to finally agree not to disagree. The Secretariat was…
6 min readDoha: Future climate agreement may merge agriculture, land use change and forestry
DOHA, Qatar (8 December, 2012)_A unified approach to managing landscapes to achieve food security while protecting the world’s natural resources…
5 min read“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…
7 min readLandscapes in the Earth System: How policymakers should consider forests at next year’s U.N. climate talks
DOHA, Qatar (3 December, 2012)_Forests have been front-and-centre at climate negotiations for several years. This year, at the COP18 meeting…
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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…
2 min read“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 –…
4 min readQ+A in Doha: Meeting food needs while protecting forests
DOHA, Qatar (2 December, 2012)_As the world struggles to feed a growing population without expanding into forests and scrubland, poliycmakers…
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