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This blog was originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News as part of the POLEX blogs. By Stephen Leonard The annual mid-year climate talks in Bonn commenced with a fast-start as countries were eager to commence REDD+ negotiations as soon as possible and resolve the three outstanding issues – further safeguards guidance, non carbon benefits (NCBs), […]

This blog was originally posted on Ecosystem Marketplace and is part of a series on “Indigenous REDD”, which traces REDD from the first project in 1988 to the current jurisdictional proposals and how they dovetail with emerging efforts to get deforestation out of supply chains. Click to access the series “Full Circle: REDD and Indigenous […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News: By Thomas Hubert. BOGOR, Indonesia: If a tree falls in the rain forest, do investors care if it really fell ….or was it chopped? More investors than ever before do care about how and why a tree hits the forest floor. And for public and private investment sectors, there are sophisticated ways […]

Watch here our full Video series from Chile. PlantNation is an on-line community website by the New Generation Plantations (NGP) – created to provide exposure to new voices in the plantation debate, where fictional stories complemented by interviews, give the starting point for creative quest for answers. Nobody has all the answers, we all have our pieces […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News blog By Peter Holmgren, Director General of the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) As we look to the Sustainable Development Goals and the new climate deal as mechanisms to secure our future on the planet, it is obvious that many of the pressing challenges facing humanity are found […]

By Clément Chenost, co-founder and technical director of the Moringa fund. Over the past 5 years, coffee production in Brazil and Central America has been severely affected by droughts and the leaf rust disease. In Nicaragua, a drop of nearly 40% was observed in coffee production in 2012-13, leading to serious social and economic impacts and […]