Forests

The key message of the recent report Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change is unambiguous: Securing and strengthening Community Forest Rights is essential for reducing an enormous amount of carbon emissions. The World Resources Institute and the Rights and Rescources Initiative stress that their paper provides the most comprehensive analysis linking legal recognition and government protection of community forest […]

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 […]

Land use change and agriculture account for 24-30% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Deforestation and forest degradation are estimated to be responsible for at least 11 of that amount. If sequestration from reforestation and afforestation are excluded, the share of global GHG emissions rises to nearly 20%. According to the US Environmental Protection Agency, […]

Better management of agricultural lands, forests, and tree resources is an effective response to many of the challenges of climate change. Actions in both the agriculture and forestry sectors can contribute to reducing emissions, and to enhancing resilience and reducing vulnerability of rural populations around the world. Land-use change for agriculture, including tropical deforestation, is […]

Por qué no avanza REDD+? Política y poder interfieren, de acuerdo a experta