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Trees Outside Forests to Counter Climate Change

The REDD line wrongly drawn between forest and non-forests –Dr. Meine van Noordwijk, Principal Scientist and Chief Science Advisor, World Agroforestry Centre speaks to Climate Change TV

Carbon Leakage And Emission Displacement Will Haunt Redd's Effectiveness Unless Programs And Forest Definitions Are More Inclusive And Comprehensive

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US climate legislation and REDD+: progress and complications

Tags: ASB,carbon_market,REDD,USA Thu, 07/01/2010 - 06:04
World Agroforestry Centre climate change expert Jonathan Haskett reports back from the Carbon Markets, Forestry & REDD USA conference in Washington DC, June 10-11 2010....

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Realising Rights, Protecting Forests: An Alternative Vision for Reducing Deforestation

Wed, 06/30/2010 - 10:03 The Accra Caucus on Forests and Climate Change is a network of southern and northern NGOs representing around 100 civil society and Indigenous Peoples' organizations from 38 countries, formed at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Accra, Ghana in 2008.

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Tenure Trends: Rights, Rollback and the Recentralizing Tendencies of REDD

Wed, 06/30/2010 - 06:16 New commentary from the Rights and Resources Initiative highlights the risks that Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) poses to local rights and land tenure.
Most major policy documents since the Stern...

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Safeguarding Multiple Benefits of Forests

Tags: biodiversity,livelihoods,UN-REDD Sat, 06/26/2010 - 02:59 Scientists working for the United Nations programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (UN-REDD) share insights on the many ways forests provide benefits to society, beyond carbon.

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Measuring Carbon in Complex Landscapes with Trees - Report back from Bonn

Tags: ASB,ICRAF,MRV,UNFCCC Fri, 06/25/2010 - 01:31 The growing interest in monitoring, measurement and verification (MRV) was highlighted in a side event hosted by the Centre during the UNFCCC climate change meeting in Bonn, Germany. More than 40 people attended the side event on 7 June organized by the World Agroforestry Centre and the Alternatives to Slash and Burn (ASB)...

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US climate legislation and REDD+: progress and complications

Realising Rights, Protecting Forests: An Alternative Vision for Reducing Deforestation

Tenure Trends: Rights, Rollback and the Recentralizing Tendencies of REDD

Safeguarding Multiple Benefits of Forests

Measuring Carbon in Complex Landscapes with Trees - Report back from Bonn