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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 […]

By Fred Pearce, originally published at Agriculture and Ecosystems Blog, CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) Timing is everything. And Michael Hobbes, an old aid hand and human rights consultant, got the timing spot on with his recent blog at The New Republic on how “big ideas are destroying international development”. As the international aid […]

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 […]

This month the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) has launched an Ecosystem Services and Resilience Framework, about a core theme of their research. WLE supports an approach to sustainable intensification whereby healthy, functioning ecosystems are seen as a prerequisite to agricultural development, food security and human well-being. The Framework will serve as the guiding […]

By Peter Holmgren, Director General of CIFOR, originally published at the DG’s Blog The UNFCCC COP20 in Lima is around the corner, and expectations are mounting again on how far the world’s countries are prepared to go in handling causes and effects of climate change. Lima is the last main stop en route to a new climate deal in […]

By Bruno Vander Velde, originally posted at Forests News A new research paper lays out conditions for “landscape approaches” to work on the ground—an important step in translating the vaunted sustainable development framework from theory to practice. By no means a new concept, the landscape approach—billed as an inclusive and equitable way to balance competing land-use demands—has […]

By Kate Evans, originally published at Forests News From the Amazon forests of Peru and Brazil, to the Congo Basin and Tanzania, to Vietnam and Indonesian Borneo, more than 300 initiatives have emerged in the past five years experimenting with the idea of REDD+. That’s Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation—an initiative to tackle […]

By Rachel Kyte, Vice-President Climate Change Group, World Bank, originally posted at World Bank Rachel Kyte is a plenary speaker at the Global Landscapes Forum 6-7 December in Lima (High-level opening plenary: Negotiating landscapes for multiple benefits). In her blog she refers to it as Landscapes Day. Over the next few months, governments worldwide will be preparing […]