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Turning point for Peru's forests? Norway and Germany put muscle and money behind ambitious agreement
2014-09-24 22:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: From the Andes to the Amazon, Peru houses some of the world's most spectacular forests. Proud and culturally-diverse indigenous tribes inhabit the interiors of the Peruvian Amazon, including some that have chosen little contact with the outside world. And even as scientists have identified tens-of-thousands of species that make their homes from the leaf litter to the canopy, many thousands more remain undiscovered and nameless. Yet Peru's forests are facing a barrage of threats: unscrupulous oil...
Asia Pulp And Paper Signs New York Declaration On Forests At UN Climate Summit To Help Tackle Climate Change
2014-09-24 11:16:55| pulpandpaperonline News Articles
Mr. Teguh Ganda Wijaya, Chairman of Asia Pulp and Paper Group (APP), recently joined a number of companies, governments and NGOs to sign the New York Declaration on Forests at an event at the UN Climate Summit 2014
Cheap option on climate change: recognize indigenous rights to forests
2014-09-18 17:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Since 2008, governments have invested $1.64 billion in funds to kick-start REDD+, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, the global effort to conserve the world's forests in order to better mitigate climate change. However, a new report by the Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) finds that same amount of money could have secured the legal rights of indigenous and local people to 450 million hectares of forest, an area 40 percent larger than India. "Securing the rights of indigenous...
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Drowned Tropical Forests Exacerbate Climate Change
2014-09-11 23:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Big dams built in the tropics to produce hydroelectricity have long been highly controversial - and data gathered in Laos by a French team studying methane emissions confirms that dams can add to global warming, not reduce it. In many rocky regions low on vegetation and population, such as in Iceland and other northern mountainous regions, the production of electricity from hydropower is clearly a net gain in the battle against climate change. In Asia, Africa and South America, however, masses...
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Converting Forests to Cropland Actually Cooled the Planet
2014-09-11 02:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Researchers have recently discovered that over the last 150 years, the conversion of forests into cropland has actually resulted in a small amount of global cooling. These results underscore the overall complexity of the climate change issue. According to a study recently published in the journal Nature Climate Change, large-scale forest losses that have occurred over the last 150 years have actually reduced global emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) - agents that aid the...
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