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Last week, REDD-Monitor wrote about the US$65 million that the Central African Forest Initiative is giving to the Republic of Congo, supposedly to stop deforestation. Just over one week after the deal was signed, the republic of San Marino confiscated €19 million that the Republic of Congo’s corrupt dictator, Denis Sassou Nguesso, had allegedly squirrelled […]...
Last week, the President of the Republic of Congo, Denis Sassou Nguesso, flew to Paris in a hired Boeing 787 Dreamliner, one of the most luxurious planes in the world. Le Figaro estimates that a one-way flight from Brazzaville to Paris would cost about US$500,000. Needless to say, Sassou Nguesso’s wife, Antoinette, travelled with him. […]...
A global strategy aimed at stemming climate change-inducing carbon emissions from tropical forest loss would better accomplish its goals if implemented in the manner intended, according to recent research. The strategy known as REDD+, or reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, could also help to end the “business-as-usual” interests that have been blamed for […]...
Abstract Background To reduce the uncertainty in estimates of carbon emissions resulting from deforestation and forest degradation, better information on the carbon density per land use/land cover (LULC) class and in situ carbon and nitrogen data is needed. This allows a better representation of the spatial distribution of carbon and...
The letter of intent establishes a long-term partnership to implement the Republic of Congo’s national REDD+ Strategy under CAFI. Under the agreement, the Republic of Congo commits to avoid conversion of over 20,000 hectares of forest annually, to implement measures to improve forest governance, and support the protection of peatlands by prohibiting their drainage and drying....
The world’s 3rd largest rainforest – after the Amazon and Congo Basin- is found on the island of New Guinea. It is shared by 2 countries – Papua New Guinea (PNG) to the east and Indonesia to the west. The island only covers 1% of the planet’s land area, but it harbors 5% of its animal and plant species - including the world’s largest butterfly. Yet despite being a biodiversity hotspo...
The world’s 3rd largest rainforest – after the Amazon and Congo Basin- is found on the island of New Guinea. It is shared by 2 countries – Papua New Guinea (PNG) to the east and Indonesia to the west. The island only covers 1% of the planet’s land area, but it harbors 5% of its animal and plant species - including the world’s largest butterfly. Yet despite being a biodiversity hotsp...
The new Axtor 4510 Komptech is an all-purpose wood chipper that is the smallest in the Axtor series, but is perfect for both chipping and shredding. It’s an entry-level machine for small to medium-sized plants as well as contract service providers. Source: Timberbiz Like its big brothers the Axtor 6010 and 8012, this new machine can shred as well as chip, and is designed for wood and green cutti...
Lauren Gifford, PhD is a human-environment geographer who has studied REDD+, climate policy and forest conservation in the Amazon and beyond since 2007. She submitted this guest post looking at the implications of the fires in the Amazon rainforest for REDD. The Amazon fires mark the end of REDD+ By Dr. Lauren Gifford, 27 August […]...
So far this year, more than 72,000 forest fires have started (or been set by cattle ranchers) in Brazil’s rain forest. That’s an 80% increase over the same period last year. But the amount of CO2 emitted from the fires is lower than in 2010 and significantly lower than in the early 2000s. The fires […]...
Building climate-effective enterprises to realize forest-related emissions reductions...
This is an archive of a session that took place on Wednesday, August 14, 2019. In recent years, growing public concern over environmental degradation and human rights violations has elevated corporate responsibility to an urgent imperative. Hundreds of forward-thinking companies have pledged to transform their supply chains to protect ecosystems and people. Yet companies committed to ethical comm...
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