Practicalities of trading carbon and protecting forests make meeting high expectations for REDD hard, say Esteve Corbera and Manuel Estrada in an article on SciDev.net. A REDD deal will need to take account some of the challenges that developing country governments and project developers face for implementing successful REDD projects. These include... More
Scientists from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the University of Oxford and other institutions are working on a protocol for comparison of methods for the measurement and assessment of carbon stocks and carbon stock changes in terrestrial carbon pools. A draft protocol is now available to the public and is open to comments on the web... More
The river detectives
Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. Communities practice conflict resolution by becoming river detectives. Watch Video