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The brunt of climate change on animals

Posted Thu, 03/22/2012 - 15:21 by EKahurani

Climate change is impacting negatively on our entire ecosystem including the animal species.

REALU methodology workshop

Posted Thu, 01/19/2012 - 12:54 by EKahurani

This week, ASB Partnership scientists are meeting in Bogor, Indonesia for a workshop to discuss and explore methodologies that can be used to effectively account for leakage, often seen as a situation where attempts to reduce carbon emissions from one place causes an increase in emissions in another place.

Just how can we avoid deforestation?

Posted Thu, 11/17/2011 - 11:02 by EKahurani

By Elizabeth Kahurani

According to scientists from the ASB Partnership, single, stand alone approaches will not find sufficient solutions. Not especially if the focus is on forests alone and agriculture, the main driver of deforestation, is not in the picture.  

Lessons on Forest Transition from Vietnam

Posted Wed, 11/02/2011 - 16:05 by EKahurani

By Elizabeth Kahurani (Nairobi) - Vietnam is one of the countries that have experienced forest transition -a move from net forest deforestation to net reforestation and this has partly been as a result of strong government policies on reforestation and forest protection.

ASB Partnership 2010-2011 ‘rating card’

Posted Wed, 11/02/2011 - 15:34 by EKahurani

By Elizabeth Kahurani

 “ASB work has become a precursor to most of the debates shaping discussions on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).”

Fuzzy forest framing favours fallacies

Posted Mon, 09/26/2011 - 13:18 by EKahurani

"Perhaps the International Year of Forests can help decision makers to focus on various meanings of ‘forest’, and the trade-offs each type entails".

By Meine van Noordwijk

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