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Key REDD Posts
In light of the UNFCCC meeting in Copenhagen, below are some recent important posts on REDD
Biggest private funder of Amazon conservation teams with Google and scientists to develop earth monitoring platform (12/18/2009)
French company CMA-CGM facilitating destruction of Madagascar's rainforests, undermining France's position in Copenhagen (12/17/2009)
Uninhabited tropical island paradise seeks REDD funding to save it from loggers (12/17/2009)
More than half world's science academies support call to save rainforests (12/17/2009)
U.S. pledges $1B towards rainforest conservation (12/17/2009)
Google's Earth Engine to help tropical countries monitor forests (12/16/2009)
Progress made on two key REDD issues in Copenhagen (12/15/2009)
New REDD text is weak, say activists (12/12/2009)
Google Earth to monitor deforestation (12/10/2009)
Developed countries plan to hide emissions from logging (12/09/2009)
Primer: Changing drivers of deforestation provides new opportunities for conservation (12/08/2009)
Brazilian tribe owns carbon rights to Amazon rainforest land (12/08/2009)
Primer: Destruction of old-growth forests looms over climate talks (12/08/2009)
Brazil could halt Amazon deforestation within a decade (12/03/2009)
Cheap REDD isn't the best conservation strategy for biodiversity (12/03/2009)
In absence of measures to address consumption, REDD may fail to protect forests (12/02/2009)
Brazil to push for 10% limit on REDD carbon offsets (12/02/2009)
Ethnographic maps built using cutting-edge technology may help Amazon tribes win forest carbon payments (11/29/2009)
Ecological benefits of REDD boosted by inclusion of private landowners, potentially harmed by plantations (11/17/2009)
Emissions from deforestation overestimated; 12% rather than 17% (11/04/2009)
Without reinstatement of key provision, REDD could subsidize large-scale forest destruction (11/02/2009)
Curtailing tropical deforestation vital to U.S. interests (10/08/2009)
Prince Charles making progress in effort to save rainforests, says leading British environmentalist (09/22/2009)
Concerns over deforestation may drive new approach to cattle ranching in the Amazon (09/08/2009)
Limit palm oil development to lands that store less than 40 tons of carbon/ha - study (08/06/2009)
Are we on the brink of saving rainforests? (07/22/2009)
Palm oil companies trade plantation concessions for carbon credits from forest conservation (07/22/2009)
Indonesia releases revenue sharing rules for REDD forest carbon projects (07/13/2009)
Big REDD (07/08/2009)
A New Idea to Save Tropical Forests Takes Flight (06/29/2009)
Fate of world's rainforests likely to be determined in next 2 years (06/19/2009)
Amazon deforestation doesn't make communities richer, better educated, or healthier (06/11/2009)
Climate pact must halt deforestation and industrial logging of old-growth forests, exclude carbon credits for forest conservation, say activists (06/09/2009)
Brazil's plan to save the Amazon rainforest (06/02/2009)
Excluding forest carbon from climate policy will spur massive deforestation (05/28/2009)
Indigenous people serve as guardians of forest carbon, must be involved in climate solutions (04/22/2009)
Avoided deforestation projects highly desirable for carbon offsets finds survey (04/21/2009)
How satellites are used in conservation (04/13/2009)
Can carbon credits from REDD compete with palm oil? (03/30/2009)
Norway emerges as champion of rainforest conservation (03/19/2009)
37,000 sq km of Amazon rainforest destroyed or damaged in 2008 (03/19/2009)
Pricing emissions from farming, logging could shift land use towards conservation (02/15/2009)
Kerry, Lugar: U.S. has opportunity to lead on climate, forest conservation (02/10/2009)
Guidelines on how to establish an avoided deforestation project (01/22/2009)
How to save the Amazon rainforest (01/04/2009)
New standards ensure forest carbon projects protect indigenous people, biodiversity (12/08/2008)
Carbon conservation schemes will fail without forest people (10/16/2008)
UK government: rainforests are weapon against global warming (10/15/2008)
Biofuels 200 times more expensive than forest conservation for global warming mitigation (08/27/2008)
Markets could save rainforests: an interview with Andrew Mitchell (08/17/2008)
Investors seek profit from conserving rainforest biodiversity (08/13/2008)
Carbon tax will ease transition to sensible climate policy (08/13/2008)
Investing to save rainforests (04/02/2008)
Shift from poverty-driven to industry-driven deforestation may help conservation (08/06/2008)
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