Pricing forest carbon and putting in place the means and channels to pay for it are necessary conditions to achieve the 2030 mitigation goals. Yet, after more than 15 years of discussion, payments for emissions reductions from forests continue to be unreasonably low, both in terms of price and volume. …
The Kyoto Protocol, with its crucial distinction between developed and developing countries, was critically wounded in Copenhagen and has virtually been buried at Cancun. It may be predicted with some confidence that the Kyoto Protocol will be replaced at the next climate change conference in Durban by a single framework …
The "triumph" of Cancún's climate negotiations may be largely diplomatic, but the foundations for a new, low-carbon world are already being laid regardless.
A new deal inked at the United Nations climate talks in Mexico paves the way for rewarding nations for maintaining their forests. A central facet of the agreement, which puts the protection of trees at the vanguard of climate negotiations, is a call for developing countries to begin calculating national …
ADAM VAUGHAN Formal step: Cancun put pledges on emissions by rich nations into UN documentation. Cutting carbon emissions: Scores of rich countries made pledges over the last year to cut their greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 under the Copenhagen accord but they were not incorporated in the official UN process. …
Meena Menon CANCUN: Hector Rodriguez, who runs an alternative radio station in Cancun called Reptil, decided on a novel way to protest the commercialisation of forestry. As hundreds of people marched to the venue of the United Nations Climate Change Conference on Tuesday, Mr. Rodriguez walked up to the posse …
Meena Menon Chicle, or gum, is extracted, sold at 55 pesos a kg; 50 years ago, they got five kg from a tree 12 million people live in Mexico's forest areas: Mexican Civil Council for Sustainable Forestry CANCUN: Santos Eligio prepares to climb the 12-metre-tall gum tree with his rope …
Meena Menon International community, however, expresses faith in Kyoto Protocol CANCUN (Mexico): There is widespread indignation over Japan's statement on the Kyoto Protocol that it is not for a second phase of commitment. There is a likelihood of the country being isolated by the international community, which has expressed its …
To make tropical forests more resilient to climate change, we need a coordinated effort to refocus conservation tools at regional and international levels. (Correspondence)
Top News is a compilation of important environmental news topics selected by environmental experts from the Asia-Pacific region as well as by international organisations and research institutes from twenty-one countries in the region. This 2010 edition focuses on three topics of Global Warming, Biodiversity and Sustainable Consumption and Production, which …
The FAO has released a report entitled "Managing Forests for Climate Change," which examines the role of forests and sustainable forest management in climate change mitigation and adaptation. The report describes the FAO's integrated approach to sustainable forest management and outlines the ways forest management can help tackle climate change, …
When over 83% of new cropland areas in the tropical zone came at the expense of natural forests over the 1980-2000 period, and when the food challenge is becoming increasingly urgent, the REDD+ mechanism must find the means to tackle this sector of activity. This hypothesis indicates that an increase …
Meena Menon CANCUN (Mexico): With the first commitment to emission reductions under the Kyoto Protocol expiring in December 2012, the world is looking to a new regime of cuts, which is unlikely to be successfully negotiated here. In 2009, the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen set a target of …
Meena Menon CANCUN (MEXICO): This beach resort, swarming with tourists and sports utility vehicles and having opulent hotels and evident unsustainability, may not be the ideal place for a climate change conference but the real issues of climate change are too critical not to be debated anywhere. The United Nations …
Local landowners collectively running a small lumber yard in the pine forests of central Mexico say they are making profits from logging and cutting carbon emissions at the same time. Eleven communities share one sawmill in the town of Agua Bendita, processing planks for furniture and construction and earning enough …
Pakistan is amongst the lowest carbon emitters but is the worst victim of climate change as the magnitude of global vulnerability is unavoidable when it comes to atmospheric change. These were the concerns of experts at a seminar "Pre-Cancun Climate Change Conference, What Should Be Civil Society Perspective" organised by …
Investors in "green" assets hope that upcoming U.N. climate talks in Mexico will salvage a deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions in 2011, and in the meantime widen and simplify existing carbon markets. The U.N. process could boost the private sector if it builds trust in global climate action and …
