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The need to jump-start REDD to save forests

A promising initiative to address deforestation in Brazil at the local level

Can saving forests help feed the world?

Finance and carbon markets dictionary with English and Spanish versions

World Bank’s forestry investments failing to meet conservation, rights, and anti-poverty goals, finds internal audit

Experts outline how REDD+ credits could fit into California’s cap-and-trade program

World Bank REDD+ forest carbon fund gets $180m injection

The year in rainforests

Norway to send Guyana $45m for maintaining low deforestation rate

DR Congo gets first validated and verified REDD+ project

Brazil sues to block unlicensed REDD deal between Irish company and indigenous group

Reducing the risk that REDD+ will shift conservation funding away from biodiverse forests

Climate Summit in Doha characterized by lack of ambition

Indonesia approves first REDD+ project in Borneo

REDD+ negotiations in Doha at impasse, potentially delaying decisions on safeguards another year

5 years in, debates over REDD+ continue

Colombia gets world’s first VCS validated and verified REDD project on collective lands

Norway to double carbon tax on oil industry for climate change programs

Commentary: Protecting the people, not the polluters, says Greenpeace

Commentary: Greenpeace report threatens climate change mitigation and tropical forests

Greenpeace targets forest carbon offsets in California’s cap-and-trade

Mangrove deforestation 3x worse for climate than rainforest loss

Indigenous groups in Panama wait for UN REDD to meet promises

Madagascar gets biggest protected area

Mangroves should be part of solution to climate change

Greenpeace calls for global REDD standards to reduce negative impacts of forest carbon projects

Deforestation accounts for 10 percent of global carbon emissions, argues new study

Challenges mount as forest carbon payment approaches move from theory to practice

In Rio, 5 big companies to launch initiative to boost demand for REDD+ carbon credits

For Earth Day, 17 celebrated scientists on how to make a better world

Amazon tribe becomes first to get OK to sell REDD credits for rainforest conservation

Our success in transforming commodity markets will determine nature’s fate

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