Forests

Originally posted on the World Resources Institute’s blog. By Fred Stolle, Kemen Austin and Octavia Aris Payne (WRI). Indonesia has two big goals for 2020 that might seem contradictory: Reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 26 percent, and boost production of several major agricultural commodities, including doubling palm oil production. With agriculture […]

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” Albert Einstein. By Ivan Zuñiga, Beatriz Zavariz and Paulina Deschamps from the Mexican Civil Council for Sustainable Silviculture (CCMSS). Since 2007, the international community has discussed how REDD+ should be tailored to the particularities of each country with the development of REDD+ […]

Terra-i detects land-cover changes resulting from human activities in near real-time, producing updates every 16 days. It currently runs for the whole of Latin America and is being expanded over the next year to cover the entire tropics. Learn more about Terra-i here. Originally posted on CIAT Decision and Policy Analysis Research Area (DAPA). By […]

New publication by Mexico’s Civil Council for Sustainable Silviculture (CCMSS) released: Review of REDD+ Implementation in Mexico – Analysis of the special programs in REDD+ early action areas. As part of Mexico’s efforts in preparing for REDD+, CONAFOR designed the PEATREDD+ and initiated implementation beginning in 2010, aiming to reduce deforestation and forest ecosystem degradation in […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Thomas Hubert. When trying to protect carbon stocks and biodiversity, the expression “to kill two birds with one stone” seems hardly appropriate. And indeed, it seems that the REDD+ stone isn’t hitting the dual targets of storing carbon and protecting wildlife, according to recent research from Indonesia. The new […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Manuel Guariguata, principal scientist at CIFOR. Subsidized by Mother Nature, society has consumed, for various reasons and over centuries, vast amounts of timber extracted from primary tropical forests. The trees were not planted nor tended.  And usually, companies just rented the much needed forestland from the government, at […]