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Event Coverage
- 26 Jan 2015
Voices of REDD+: Whose land is it, anyway? Tenure snags progress in Brazil
“I think sometimes politicians don’t see the importance their decisions have for us.”
Video
- 22 Jan 2015
High-tech eyes on the forest seek to help curb climate change
In Kalimantan, CIFOR scientists take to the skies to scope out forests.
Event Coverage
- 21 Jan 2015
Voices of REDD+: In Vietnam, payments alone can’t turn tide of deforestation
“Quite early on in the project we decided that the economics didn’t really add up.”
News
- 14 Jan 2015
Peatland loss could emit 2,800 years’ worth of carbon in an evolutionary eyeblink: study
More than 100,000 hectares of peatland forests are destroyed each year for oil palm and agricultural plantations.
News
- 12 Jan 2015
In ‘charcoal landscape,’ data on deforestation, emissions hidden in the ashes
In regions considered remote by African standards, monitoring the charcoal industry is painstaking work.
News
- 5 Jan 2015
Protected areas: biodiversity troves and carbon sinks under one canopy?
Research from Cameroon highlights carbon stocks of the Kom-Mengamé Forest.
News
- 24 Dec 2014
Best of 2014: For REDD+, sky-high expectations meet on-the-ground realities
The intuitive logic of REDD+ is often halted by political and technical complications.
Event Coverage
- 16 Dec 2014
Deal or no deal, experts upbeat on progress of REDD+ safeguards
“Our rights come first,” stressed Cándido Mézua Salazar, from the National Coordinating Body of Indigenous Peoples of Panama.
Analysis
- 16 Dec 2014
Beyond dialogue: building trust to save the people’s forests and support development
Experts agree that greater trust between local communities and government is necessary.
News
- 15 Dec 2014
In national REDD+ policy networks, a bit of conflict is not a bad thing
The Global Comparative Study discovers that competing interests make for better implementation.
Event Coverage
- 14 Dec 2014
Indigenous land rights take center stage in Lima
Cándido Mezúa Salazar urges greater respect for the role of indigenous communities during the Global Landscapes Forum.
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