All Blog Posts Tagged 'forests' (8)

Until recently, smallholders have been unable to take advantage of the world’s growing carbon market, which is based on organizations selling the carbon they capture – for example through tree-planting – to countries or companies which wish to offset their own emissions. The difficulty of producing the minimum volumes required by the trade, the cost of registering projects and measuring carbon stocks, a lack of business skills – these are among the factors which have prevented smallholders…

A report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) states that a more sustainable use of forestry resources can make a significant contribution to meeting the core challenges being discussed at the Rio+20 Conference.

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Press release

New Haven, Conn, USA: Income generated from REDD+ should be given to forest communities to invest in their future, recommends a new report by The Forests Dialogue (TFD). Investing locally in this way should be part of understanding REDD+ as integral to broader development among forest-dependent communities.

The new report Giving REDD+ Life, examines the relationship between REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest…

Tropical countries that seek a share of billions of dollars of climate finance in return for protecting their forests risk creating strategies that fail to bring social and environmental benefits.

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Greenhouse gas emissions from foods eaten in the U.K. are the equivalent of 167 million tons of carbon dioxide, and switching to a vegan diet could cut this by between 22 and 26 per cent.

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Projects worth US$ 1.08 billion will help eight developing countries reducing carbon dioxide emissions and mitigating the impact of climate change.

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Researchers gathered two years of laser satellite data to develop a map of carbon storage in tropical forests that could play an important role in effective forest management.

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With the theme: Climate-smart must be livelihood smart too, we welcome you to participate in our events in Durban at COP17 as follows (http://www.asb.cgiar.org/icraf-asb-partnership-cop-17 ):

Side event – Making climate smart agriculture work for the poor

Thursday 1 December 2011

1.15-2.45pm

International Convention Centre, Room: Apies River

While…