Daniel Cooney

ABOUT THE WRITER
Daniel Cooney - formerly CIFOR's Senior Manager of Communications (2010-2015) - is passionate about finding new ways to leverage forestry research to influence global climate change policies. Daniel started his career as a reporter with The Associated Press, hopping all across Asia, press card in one hand, and laptop in the other. His last post was as the agency's correspondent in Afghanistan. He later joined the Asian Development Bank working on climate change. He has a Masters of Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley.
BY THIS WRITER
15 Jun 2011
Looking South for climate change expertise to save rainforests
Home to the largest rainforest in the world, Brazil is keen to share its REDD+ experiences with other forest-rich developing countries, in what would be...
15 Jun 2011
Looking South for climate change expertise to save rainforests
15 Jun 2011
Q&A with Sven Wunder on the state of REDD+ in South America
In this interview, Sven Wunder, Principal Scientist with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and head of CIFOR’s Brazil office, looks...
15 Jun 2011
Q&A with Sven Wunder on the state of REDD+ in South America
15 Jun 2011
‘Selling the oxygen to the gringos’: Attitudes change toward REDD+
Public support is growing in Brazil for a global climate change scheme that could see the country paid not to turn the Amazon into farmland, experts said,...
15 Jun 2011
‘Selling the oxygen to the gringos’: Attitudes change toward REDD+
15 Jun 2011
Getting the laws in place in Brazil to move forward with REDD+
Virgilio Viana, one of Brazil's leading movers and shakers on climate change and rainforests, said he is optimistic his country will agree this year on...
15 Jun 2011
Getting the laws in place in Brazil to move forward with REDD+
15 Jun 2011
Putting the squeeze: Brazil cuts off credit to illegal loggers
With fines for illegal deforestation rarely paid, Brazil is using a novel approach to save the Amazon: block those who clear land illegally from accessing...
15 Jun 2011
Putting the squeeze: Brazil cuts off credit to illegal loggers
15 Jun 2011
Amazon ranchers use one hectare per cow to feed growing global appetite for meat
Though the rate of deforestation in the Amazon has dropped, about 6,000 square kilometers is still being felled every year, mainly so that cattle ranchers...
15 Jun 2011
Amazon ranchers use one hectare per cow to feed growing global appetite for meat
15 Jun 2011
Protecting forests, fighting climate change: Searching for lessons in the Amazon
THE AMAZON, Brazil _ Looking down from a tiny plane above the Amazon, a blanket of patchy green stretches to the horizon, broken only by occasional ribbons...
15 Jun 2011
Protecting forests, fighting climate change: Searching for lessons in the Amazon
15 Jun 2011
Will the real owner please stand up: Land tenure confusion threatens REDD+ in Brazil
A lack of progress in fixing a murky system of land ownership and land-use rules in Brazil may threaten the country's ability to scale up a climate change...
15 Jun 2011
Will the real owner please stand up: Land tenure confusion threatens REDD+ in Brazil