Climate change

The Standing Committee on Finance (SCF) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)  is looking for relevant information and case studies to feed into a working paper on coherence and coordination for financing for forests. Submission can include a. Experience with use of resources/the transfer of payments in results-based approaches; b. Experience with the provision […]

UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Environment Programme Executive Director, Achim Steiner launched a carbon offsetting application to help participants at the 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 12) offset their carbon emissions. The Carbon Offsetting Fund calculates the carbon cost created by participants’ travel and stay […]

This article was originally published at  World Resources Institute (WRI) Written by Helen Mountford, Director of Economics at WRI, and Andrew Steer, President and CEO of WRI, who is also one of the speakers at the Global Landscapes Forum How should politicians prioritize between robust economic growth and solving the problem of climate change? A new report reveals an encouraging […]

This was originally published on CIFOR’s DG’s Blog New York climate week offered an opportunity to reflect on ways forward for research, outreach and capacity development—three dimensions of CIFOR’s work—to help transforming these commitments into actions on the ground. In short—what does the summit tell us to do? One part of the summit program is dedicated to eight […]

  This post by Kate Evans was originally published on CIFOR’s Forests News A new partnership with Norway and Germany is an opportunity for Peru to put in place a comprehensive, public deforestation monitoring system by the time the country hosts the UNFCCC climate meeting in December, says Daniel Nepstad, Executive Director of the Earth Innovation Institute who will […]

To foster new thinking, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Earth Institute of Columbia University issued a challenge to six thought leaders on climate: Tell us your big ideas on how to change the future by challenging the present. The Colloquium on Forests and Climate: New Thinking for Transformational Change was part of New York’s Climate Week […]