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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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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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 Technological…
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It’s too soon to bury REDD+
Is REDD+ dead? The ambitious plan for reducing carbon emissions in the tropics by preventing deforestation and forest degradation is…
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East Africa: An urgent need to monitor the forests
East Africa is home to some of the world’s most diverse forests: Montane forests, which include some of the highest and…
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REDD+ pioneers or guinea pigs?
In 2012, Central Kalimantan was chosen as Indonesia’s pilot province for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). REDD+…
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REDD+ in Myanmar
As decision makers in Myanmar move to draft a REDD+ country strategy, a workshop was held in the capital, Naypyidaw,…
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COP22 Special: The Medina, souks and the ‘COP of Action’
At the COP21 in Paris last year, 195 countries reached an historic agreement – the first ever universal, legally binding global…
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