--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-21 06:05 |
Over the past two years, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests have brought together regional experts to reflect on the outcomes of the 15th and 16th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The resulting booklets Forests and Climate Change After Copenhagen: An Asia-Pacific Perspective and Forests and Climate Change After Cancun: An Asia-Pacific...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2012-05-21 05:27 |
By William F. Laurance, mongabay.com, 14 May 2012 | It's tempting to think of illegal logging as an environmental crisis but it takes a serious human toll too. Just ask the wife and children of Chut Wutty, an environmental activist who was murdered last week for investigating rampant illegal logging in Cambodia. Wutty was far from alone. Criminal gangs increasingly control illegal logging, and don't hesitate to kill those who dare to oppose them. In the Peruvian Amazon, a community leader...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-21 04:56 |
The management of Asia’s forests affects diverse stakeholders and interests, inevitably resulting in conflict. This study focuses on conflicts between local communities and outsiders: the underlying causes, conflict management approaches, and eventual outcomes. Field data was collected through interviews and focus group discussions in seven community-outsider conflict cases across five countries. While many direct conflict triggers were observed, at least three underlying and...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-21 04:41 |
This training manual has been prepared for national and district level facilitators who are willing to learn and share the knowledge about climate change and REDD+ to different stakeholders in order to build capacity and raise their awareness.
Please click here to download.
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-21 04:32 |
International attention is focused on finding ways to reduce emissions from deforestation because of the emerging concerns over climate change. However the causes of deforestation are rooted in current economic and development paradigms. The causes of deforestation also vary across different geographical regions and have implications for the forest transition.
Attempts to reach an international agreement on curbing deforestation have achieved little success despite over...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-21 04:18 |
This study provides preliminary information on the potential for REDD+ in Laos PDR by surveying forest cover change and carbon density. The method used in this report were to first study forest cover change and carbon density using coarse-resolution forest cover data available in the Vegetation Continuous Fields data product. This information was used to prioritise certain areas as having good potential for REDD+.
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--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-21 04:17 |
SNV in collaboration with Rainforest Alliance and WWF carried out a study to evaluate the feasibility of developing a forest carbon project in Quang Tri Province following an Improved Forest Management project type and implemented by private smallholder farmers growing acacia plantations which could potentially be certified to FSC standards. The feasibility study: (i) determined the amount of carbon sequestered when rotation lengths for acacia plantations are extended and FSC practices...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-21 04:12 |
Tropical peatlands are widely distributed throughout Indonesia, Malaysia and several other countries in South East Asia. They play an important role in stabilizing the ecosystem, particularly in regulating drainage, microclimate, and water quality and soil formation. In Vietnam, approximately 183,000 ha of peat swamps can be found, mainly located in the Lower Mekong Basin. There are two main areas of where peat remains: in Kien Giang and Ca Mau provinces. The peatland area found within U...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-21 04:11 |
As part of SNV’s REDD+ interventions in Vietnam, Nghe An has been identified as a important Province to work on REDD+. The Province has high forest cover, and is subject to deforestation and degradation. It is also home to many ethnic minority groups. In order to better understand and design possible REDD+ interventions a pilot study was carried to better understand the socio-economic conditions and drivers of deforestation and forest degradation with a number of identified districts...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-21 04:09 |
Recently in Vietnam, a coalition of international NGOs, donors and government officials have been promoting market-based forest conservation projects in the form of payments for environmental services (PES) as a win–win for both conservation and development objectives; Vietnam is now the first country in Southeast Asia with a national law on PES.
This article provides a macro survey of how market-based instruments for forest conservation have expanded in Vietnam,...
--- ForestCarbon Asia ---
2012-05-21 04:08 |
The originality of the REDD proposal is its incentives-based mechanism designed to reward the governments of developing countries for their performance in reducing deforestation as measured against a baseline. This mechanism is founded on the hypothesis that developing countries ‘pay’ an opportunity cost to conserve their forests and would prefer other choices and convert their wooden lands to other uses. The basic idea is, therefore, to pay rents to these countries to compensate for the...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2012-05-21 02:47 |
By Bustar Maitar, Greenpeace International, 15 May 2012 | The news initially sounded intriguing : Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) was inviting journalists in Jakarta to the launch of what the company grandly dubbed its “greatest commitment to natural forest protection.” Discarding the PR gloss, however, leaves an announcement that exposes glaring gaps in APP’s ‘new’ policy and demonstrates that the company is still not serious about reform. APP, which has been linked to illegal logging and the...
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2012-05-21 02:36 |
By Stephen Stock, Liza Meak, and Jeremy Carroll, NBC Bay Area, 18 May 2012 | California's new Cap and Trade program has been hailed as the gold standard in environmental law for the entire world. Not only are other states looking to the law but other countries, too, are watching to judge its effects on the global economy and environment. Now, NBC Bay Area's Investigative Unit has learned of questions surrounding fundamental issues about how the new law is applied and who benefits from it that...
--- Canadian Forestindustries News ---
2012-05-20 14:07 |
A fire broke out around 4am on Saturday at the Absolute Lumber Products mill in Abbotsford, British Columbia.
When firefighters arrived on scene, the flames were shooting into the air, and the smoke was so thick it was setting off smoke alarms in apartment buildings several kilometres away.
The firefighters were able to get the fire under control in 45 minutes, and spent many hours on Saturday attacking hot spots.
Assistant Fire Chief...
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2012-05-20 12:51 |
By Simon Romero, New York Times, 16 May 2012 | President Dilma Rousseff is facing one of the defining moments of her presidency as pressure builds on her to veto a bill that would open vast protected areas of forests to ranching and farming, potentially reversing Brazil’s major gains in slowing Amazon deforestation. The Forest Code, which Congress approved in April at the urging of powerful agricultural groups, is an effort to overhaul Brazil’s 47-year-old legislation providing forest...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2012-05-20 08:37 |
By Scott Wallace, National Geographic, 14 May 2012 | As Brazil braces for president Dilma Rousseff’s forthcoming decision on whether to sign or veto recent legislation that would alter the country’s Forest Code, rights groups are decrying a surge in illegal land grabs that is wrecking environmental havoc and threatening vulnerable tribal populations. According to the rights organization Survival International, a gold rush mentality seems to have taken hold among loggers, ranchers and settlers...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2012-05-20 08:31 |
UC Davis News & Information, 14 May 2012 | A new study from the University of California, Davis, provides a deeper understanding of the complex global impacts of deforestation on greenhouse gas emissions. The study, published May 13 in the advance online edition of the journal Nature Climate Change, reports that the volume of greenhouse gas released when a forest is cleared depends on how the trees will be used and in which part of the world the trees are grown. When trees are felled to...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2012-05-20 08:25 |
Phys.org, 14 May 2012 | On the first day of summer – the longest day of the year – tree leaves are lush and green, luminous in the June sunlight. Yet just a day after the summer solstice, length of daylight begins to incrementally decrease; tree leaves begin to shut down, and the activity of photosynthesis declines. As the season progresses, this drop in photosynthetic activity means trees absorb less carbon dioxide than they had on the longest day of the year and ultimately sequester far less...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2012-05-20 08:24 |
By Tunggadewa Mattangkilang, Jakarta Globe, 16 May 2012 | The fast rate of deforestation in East Kalimantan over the last few years has made it the country’s third largest carbon emitting region. According to the East Kalimantan Climate Change Council (DDPI), the province emitted 255 million tons of carbon dioxide last year, behind only Riau (358 million tons) and Central Kalimantan (324 million tons). Daddy Ruchiyat, chairman of the DPPI, said that just five years ago the province was the...
--- REDD monitor news ---
2012-05-20 08:23 |
Associated Press, 17 May 2012 | Security forces have sealed off a village in eastern Cambodia and denied entry to human rights workers after the fatal shooting of a teenager in the latest violent eviction aimed at clearing land for development. Soldiers said they needed to secure the area around Proma village, in eastern Kratie province, to continue the search for five accused ringleaders involved in a clash with security forces a day earlier, said Chan Soveth, a prominent investigator with...
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