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Kulera's First Carbon Credit Sale Supports Value Chains That Protect Forests And Build Livelihoods In Malawi
2015-05-11 03:10:27| pollutiononline Home Page
The Kulera Landscape Reduced Emissions for Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) Program in Malawi has successfully completed its first sale of carbon credits
To improve food security, look to the forests, new report says
2015-05-08 19:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Forests could help alleviate global hunger, according to a new report released Wednesday during the United Nations Forum on Forests in New York. It's a bold claim, and the report, published by the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), doesn't shy away from the enormity of the problem it seeks to address. Some 805 million people -- one in nine citizens of Earth -- are undernourished, primarily in Africa and Asia. At the same time, between 1.2 and 1.5 billion people worldwide...
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New report: Forests could be the trump card in efforts to end global hunger
2015-05-06 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] IMAGE: A child's daily requirement for vitamin A can be met by around 25 g of a deep orange-fleshed mango variety. Credit: Terry Sunderland New York/Vienna (6 May 2015)- About one in nine people globally still suffer from …
Indonesia: Riau forum asks Jokowi to help business save forests
2015-05-04 16:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: A sustainable-business forum in Indonesia's Riau province urged the government to support companies' zero-deforestation commitments, which remain hampered by policies that prevent firms from preserving forests in their concessions. Under the current legal regime, if a plantation company decides to set aside land for conservation, the government reserves the right to take it back and give it to a firm that will develop it. "For example, if a company decides not to plant palm oil trees in 10 percent...
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Californias forests have become climate polluters
2015-04-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: California introduced a world-leading carbon dioxide cap-and-trade program to drive down pollution rates after lawmakers approved an ambitious climate protection law in 2006. It also changed rules affecting utilities, spurring investments in some of the biggest solar power plants the world has yet seen. But an emerging body of research shows it's going to take more than a clean energy blitz to help the state comply with the historic California Global Warming Solutions Act. A Californian task...
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