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Biodiversity Boom Bolsters Peruvian Forests (And REDD) Ahead Of Year-End Climate Talks There
2014-04-17 13:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecosystem Marketplace: This is the seventh in an ongoing series of articles developed in support of this year's two Katoomba Meetings, both of which are taking place in Latin America. The first meeting will take place on March 19 and 20 at Iguazú Falls, on the border of Brazil and Argentina, under the banner "Scaling Up Sustainable Commodity Supply Chains'. The second meeting will take place in Lima, Peru, over four days -- from April 22 through 25 -- and its working motto is "Climate, Forests, Water, and People: A...
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All Eyes on the Forests: The New Norm of Zero-Deforestation
2014-04-14 10:37:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Triple Pundit: In the past two years, weve seen rapid changes in the forestry sector that we could not have predicted would be realized by 2014. As a starting point, we witnessed the chairman of Indonesia-based Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), the worlds second largest pulp and paper producer, announce a groundbreaking Forest Conservation Policy on Feb. 5, 2013, committing to an immediate moratorium on rainforest clearing for its pulp and paper products. This announcement, met with considerable and warranted skepticism,...
Forests in Indonesia's concessions areas being rapidly destroyed
2014-04-11 01:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Forest clearing within areas zoned for timber, logging, oil palm, and mining accounted for nearly 45 percent of deforestation in Indonesia between 2000 and 2010, finds a new study that examined forest loss within industrial concessions. The research, published in the journal Conservation Letters, used a combination of satellite data and concession data to link specific activities to forest cover change. It found that of the 14.7 million hectares of forest cleared in Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi,...
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Next big idea in forest conservation? Empowering everyone to watch over forests
2014-04-10 23:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Nigel Sizer has worked on the forefront of global forest issues for decades. Currently, he is the Global Director of the World Resource Institutes (WRI) Forests Program, whose projects include the Global Forest Watch, the Forest Legality Alliance, and the Global Restoration Initiative. These programs work with governments, businesses, and civil society with the aim of sustaining forests for generations to come. On February 20, 2014, WRI launched the Global Forest Watch (GFW), an online forest...
Indigenous Leaders Targeted in Battle to Protect Forests
2014-04-10 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Indigenous leaders are warning of increased violence in the fight to save their dwindling forests and ecosystems from extractive companies. Indigenous representatives and environmental activists from Africa, Asia, Australia and the Americas met over the weekend here to commemorate those leading community fights against extractive industries. The conference, called Chico Vive, honoured Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber-tapper killed in 1988 for fighting to save the Amazon."Right now in our territory...
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