Climate change

The Thomson Reuters Foundation has dedication a whole section of its reporting to the Global Landscapes Forum. Articles feature: Better Policy, Finance Needed To Balance Forests And Farming, by Megan Rowling (also picked up by the Huffington Post) Latin American nations launch 2020 land restoration plan, by Megan Rowling Latam countries launch plan to store […]

     

Publicado originalmente en Agronews Castilla y Leon La Fundación Cesefor es integrante desde hace dos años del proyecto EcoAdapt (acrónimo de Ecosystem-based strategies and innovations in water governance networks for adaptation to climate change in Latin American Landscapes, y que puede traducirse como ‘Estrategias basadas en el ecosistema e innovaciones en las redes de gestión del agua para la adaptación […]

By Kate Langford, originally published at World Agroforestry Centre If it’s a heterogeneous, multifunctional landscape in a smallholder context then there’s a pretty good chance climate change researchers are interested in it. If the landscape is contributing to greater food security, storing carbon and helping farmers cope with changes in climate, then all the better. In […]

By Rachel Kyte, Vice President and Special Envoy, Climate Change Group, World Bank, originally published at World Bank The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tells us that to rein in climate change and keep global warming under 2°C, we will have to start reducing emissions now and get to near net zero emissions […]

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 […]