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Land Use Decisions Impact Forest Benefits
2013-12-13 22:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: A new study by Harvard University's Harvard Forest and the Smithsonian Institution reveals that, if left unchecked, recent trends in the loss of forests to development will undermine significant land conservation gains in Massachusetts, jeopardize water quality and limit the natural landscape's ability to protect against climate change. cientists researched and analyzed four plausible scenarios for what Massachusetts could look like in the future. The scenarios were developed by a group of forestry...
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PRESS RELEASE: Guthrie Development Company Acquires Two Industrial Buildings In Lake Forest For $8 Million
2013-12-10 21:05:00| National Real Estate Investor
David Ebeling Guthrie Development acquired two institutional quality industrial buildings encompassing 57,000 sq. ft. located at 26429 and 26439 Rancho Parkway in Foothill Business Park in Lake Forest, Calif. for $8 million. read more
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World Bank Approves Rules Unlocking $390 Million For Forest Conservation
2013-12-10 09:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecosystem Marketplace: Less than a month after the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) approved the seven decisions that comprise the REDD Rulebook, the World Banks Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) today signed off on a new Methodological Framework for its Carbon Fund. Finalized during a meeting of Carbon Fund Participants in Paris, the new framework unshackles nearly $390 million already committed to REDD+ pilot programs in the developing world, and it could pave the way for millions...
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Conventional satellite imagery may underestimate forest clearing for subsistence agriculture
2013-12-09 19:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Analysis of forest cover using medium-scale satellite imagery may miss deforestation for small-scale subsistence agriculture, finds a study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters. The study, which involved researchers from the University of Maryland, the State University of New York and Woods Hole Research Center, is based on change in forest cover in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which accounts for the bulk of the world's second largest tropical rainforest. The researchers...
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U.N. deal provides state funding for forest protection
2013-12-09 11:27:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A U.N. deal on forest protection will attract more government funding to help poorer nations, but could fail to prevent a slump in the fledgling market for carbon credits from projects that cut emissions by slowing deforestation. Almost 200 nations at U.N. talks in Warsaw last month agreed to fund the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) program and took steps to ensure it will be part of a global pact to tackle climate change after 2020. REDD proponents hope...
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