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Forestry Deal Is Key to Protecting the Planet
2013-11-21 20:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Huffington Post: Over the first week of the UN climate change negotiations in Poland we have seen the alarming results of studies showing increased decline of tropical forests. It is clear from newly available data from satellite monitoring stations that there are now growing areas being deforested as a result of illegal logging, agriculture and mining. This is a very concerning development that underlines the paramount urgency for governments to agree a new mechanism to reduce deforestation and forest degradation....
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Urban Forestry is hiring a Tree Plan Outreach Coordinator!
2013-06-28 19:19:06| PortlandOnline
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Forestry Programmes Bogged Down in Latin America
2013-05-26 06:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Issues related to the ownership of forest carbon and to prior consultation mechanisms threaten to derail plans for the Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation of Forests (REDD+) in some countries of Latin America, according to experts. The problems are hindering the design of Mexico's plan in the framework of the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD). In Panama, they have prompted...
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California's cap and trade should not use forestry offsets
2013-05-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: When Californians passed AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act, we committed to one of the most forward-thinking pieces of climate legislation in the country, with comprehensive strategies to reduce carbon emissions from nearly all sectors of the economy. Unfortunately, the California Air Resources Board is considering a move that will undermine the best intent of this law by linking it to a benign-sounding yet dubious and untried scheme to protect rain forests in Mexico and Brazil. Many peasant...
Should California's cap and trade use forestry offsets? Yes
2013-05-19 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: We love our forests in California. After a century of rapidly losing them to farming and logging, we finally succeeded in virtually ending deforestation in California. We were driven by our interest in the natural beauty, the wildlife, the sustainable timber supplies and the water-purifying functions of old-growth redwoods along the coast, the blue oaks growing across the Central Valley and the mixed pine forests of the Sierra. It was only possible because we had a clear vision of the importance...
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