Kate Evans

ABOUT THE WRITER
Kate Evans is a freelance journalist originally from New Zealand. After studying journalism at the University of Sydney and international relations at the Australian National University, she worked as a multimedia journalist at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for three years...and then ran off to West Africa armed with a video camera and a love of African dance. She is now a writer, filmmaker and photographer.
BY THIS WRITER
Event Coverage - 23 Jul 2012
Make it rain: Planting forests could help drought-stricken regions
Scientists at Rio+20 are promoting the use of forests for influencing rainfall and adapting to climate change.
Event Coverage - 23 Jul 2012
Make it rain: Planting forests could help drought-stricken regions
Event Coverage - 13 Jul 2012
“Bootleggers and Baptists” coalitions will help forest certification schemes expand
Developing country governments and firms operating in tropical forests need to be brought into coalitions for change.
Event Coverage - 13 Jul 2012
“Bootleggers and Baptists” coalitions will help forest certification schemes expand
Event Coverage - 9 Jul 2012
Land tenure for whom? Recognising community rights essential for REDD+ legitimacy
REDD+ projects need to know who to compensate, and who is accountable.
Event Coverage - 9 Jul 2012
Land tenure for whom? Recognising community rights essential for REDD+ legitimacy
Video - 5 Jul 2012
REDD+ without regrets: CIFOR Director General on where to from here
The international community continues to inch forward on setting up a global framework for REDD+.
Video - 5 Jul 2012
REDD+ without regrets: CIFOR Director General on where to from here
Event Coverage - 2 Jul 2012
Could new interactive maps help preserve last “roadless” areas?
Google, European Environmental Agency, Society for Conservation Biologists, the European Parliament create remarkable map of the Amazon.
Event Coverage - 2 Jul 2012
Could new interactive maps help preserve last “roadless” areas?
News - 29 Jun 2012
Linking the local to the global: REDD+ as a multi-level puzzle
We need to build information links between global discussions and local realities.
News - 29 Jun 2012
Linking the local to the global: REDD+ as a multi-level puzzle
Event Coverage - 26 Jun 2012
Communities are not companies: New approach needed for community managed forests
Research from Brazil illustrates the disconnect between policy and reality.
Event Coverage - 26 Jun 2012
Communities are not companies: New approach needed for community managed forests
News - 22 Jun 2012
New approach to setting reference emissions levels a crucial first step for REDD+
CIFOR scientists have developed a novel approach for forest countries trying to reduce their carbon emissions.
News - 22 Jun 2012
New approach to setting reference emissions levels a crucial first step for REDD+