Landscapes

Originally posted by Thomas Reuters Foundation, By Laurie Goering LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Protecting the world’s dwindling forests and making small farms more productive will cost hundreds of billions of dollars annually – money governments and charities do not have to spend, experts said at a London conference. Private investors could fill the gap, […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News, by Thomas Hubert. Investment bankers and fund managers met with agriculture and forestry researchers, representatives from advocacy groups and government agencies at the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case event held in London on June 10. There was a sense that momentum is growing to connect the flows of […]

Originally posted on CIFOR’s Forests News. By Thomas Hubert, CIFOR. LONDON, England: There was standing room only at several of the sessions of the Global Landscapes Forum: The Investment Case event held here on June 10. As investment bankers and fund managers rubbed shoulders with agriculture and forestry researchers, representatives from advocacy groups and government agencies, […]

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 […]

This publication was originally posted on Ecosystem Marketplace and adapted. Do you find REDD confusing, opaque, and obtuse? Do you wonder where it came from, how it evolved, and how it impacts indigenous people? If so, feel free to check out our emerging series on “Indigenous REDD” – or download a booklet containing our year-to-date […]

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 […]