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By Kate Evans, originally posted at CIFOR’s Forests News Despite no movement on the issue of REDD+ safeguards in discussions in Lima this month, experts on a panel at the Global Landscapes Forum on the sidelines of the UN climate conference (COP20) said progress on safeguards on the ground in some countries offers hope. “It is an exciting time for REDD+ […]

By Laura Deal, originally published at CIFOR’s Forests News Peter Holmgren, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), challenged participants at the Global Landscapes Forum in Lima to “think big” and identified three key challenges to scaling up landscapes approaches: rights, finance and knowledge. “For too long we have been stuck in sectorial priority […]

By Bruno Vander Velde, originally published at Forests News Say you have a plot of forested land in Amazonia to invest in. Do you log it for quick cash, or preserve it for carbon credits? Do you clear it for oil palm or dig in for the long haul and build a tourist eco-lodge? Poultry […]

By Laura Deal, originally published at CIFOR’s Forests News For climate change mitigation initiatives such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+), which aim to work directly with local communities, increasing the participation of women in adaptive collaborative management (ACM) methods is a central goal. But integrating women into forest management and climate change mitigation and […]

By Peter Holmgren, Director General of CIFOR, originally published at the DG’s Blog The UNFCCC COP20 in Lima is around the corner, and expectations are mounting again on how far the world’s countries are prepared to go in handling causes and effects of climate change. Lima is the last main stop en route to a new climate deal in […]

By Kate Evans, originally published at Forests News From the Amazon forests of Peru and Brazil, to the Congo Basin and Tanzania, to Vietnam and Indonesian Borneo, more than 300 initiatives have emerged in the past five years experimenting with the idea of REDD+. That’s Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation—an initiative to tackle […]