Add financial markets to the long list of threats to wildlife Scale-crested pygmy tyrant. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. The emergence of a Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)…
Guest commentary by Doug Boucher, director of the Tropical Forest and Climate Initiative at the Union of Concerned Scientists Amid the whirlwind of climate change news before and after the…
Efforts to protect tropical forests under the proposed reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) program should focus on conserving large-scale moisture gradients and areas that provide connectivity between major…
A widely used representation of greenhouse gas emissions abatement costs doesn't reflect the true costs of forest conservation, making the proposed reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) mechanism seem…
Industrial interests are threatening to undermine Norway's billion dollar partnership with Indonesia, potentially turning the forest conservation deal into a scheme that subsidizes conversion of rainforests and peatlands for oil…
An interview with David Romo Vallejos. Ecuador's big idea—potentially Earth-rattling—goes something like this: the international community pays the small South American nation not to drill for nearly a billion barrels…
Wandojo Siswanto, one of the lead negotiators for Indonesia's delegation at last year's climate talks in Copenhagen and a key architect of its Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)…
When you vote on Nov. 2, remember that Peru is planning to save all of its rain forest. That's what I found out recently in the country's capital, Lima. By…
A letter in Nature from seven top scientists warns that Papua New Guinea's accessible forest will be lost or heavily logged in just ten to twenty years if swift action…
Indonesian pulp and paper firm Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) has signed a deal to protect 15,640 hectares of peat forest in Sumatra in exchange for carbon payments, reports Reuters.…
While many factors come into consideration when the fate of forests are being determined, economics often play a key role in land use decisions. When the perceived value of forest…
Program pembayaran karbon hutan seperti mekanisme pengurangan emisi dari penggundulan hutan dan degradasi (REDD) yang diajukan dapat memberikan tekanan pada teknik pertanian "ramah-alam liar" dengan meningkatkan kebutuhan untuk mengintensifkan produksi…
Pemetaan hutan 3D dengan laser mengungkap dampak iklim substansial dari penebangan selektif di Amazon Ilmuwan menggunakan kombinasi pencitraan satelit, teknologi laser-udara, dan survey plot daratan untuk menciptakan peta karbon resolusi…
Plantations on peatlands will no longer be supported by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), a framework for industrialized countries to reduce their emissions via projects in developing countries, reports Wetlands…
Wandojo Siswanto, one of the lead negotiators for Indonesia's climate delegation in Copenhagen and a key architect of its Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) program, has been named…
An Analysis of the Historic Yasuní Fund Agreement between Ecuador and the UNDP Ecuador’s pioneering initiative to voluntarily leave nearly a billion barrels of oil under Yasuní National Park, an…
Forest carbon payment programs like the proposed reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) mechanism could put pressure on "wildlife-friendly" farming techniques by increasing the need to intensify agricultural production,…
3D forest mapping with lasers reveals substantial climate impact of selective logging in the Amazon Scientists using a combination of satellite imagery, airborne-laser technology, and ground-based plot surveys to create…
Proyek konservasi hutan yang didukung oleh Shell, Gazprom Market and Trading dan Clinton Foundation di Pulau Borneo telah memenangkan persetujuan di bawah standar perhitungan karbon, menurut laporan Reuters. Proyek Rimba…
Sepertiga dari emisi gas rumah kaca Indonesia dari penggundulan hutan berasal dari wilayah yang tidak secara resmi disebutkan sebagai "hutan" membuat usaha untuk mengurangi emisi dari penggundulan dan degradasi hutan…
When people are hungry for an uncertain income, they will destroy everything. When people become poor due to a poor decision they were excluded from making, who should be responsible…
One third of Indonesia's greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation originate from areas not officially defined as "forest" suggesting that efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD+) may fail…
A forest conservation project backed by Shell, Gazprom Market and Trading and the Clinton Foundation on the island of Borneo has won approval under a carbon accounting standard, reports Reuters.…
$27.9 billion in "fast-start" funding has so far been pledged by industrialized countries to help developing countries mitigate and adapt to climate change, according to a new climate finance tracking…
Norway has agreed to transfer an initial $30 million to Indonesia under its $1 billion REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) partnership with the Southeast Asian country. The…
A new study in Ecological Management & Restoration has found that reforesting rainforest captures more carbon than monoculture plantation and even mixed species plantations. The research tested three projects in…
Investments in protecting and managing biodiversity are key to helping the world slow and adapt to climate change, said a World Bank ecologist speaking last month at the Association for…
With 18,000 islands spanning two major bigeographic realms (and a curious outlier in Sulawesi) across an area of nearly 2 million square kilometers, Indonesia is one of the world's most…
Scientists convening at the annual Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) meeting in Sanur, Bali urged Indonesia's leaders to strengthen measures to protect the country's biologically-rich ecosystems. In a…
Scientists convening in Bali expressed a range of concerns over a proposed mechanism for mitigating climate change through forest conservation, but some remained hopeful the idea could deliver long-term protection…
