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. …
Efforts to mitigate climate change through the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) depend on mapping and monitoring of tropical forest carbon stocks and emissions over large geographic areas. With a new integrated use of satellite imaging, airborne light detection and ranging, and field plots, we mapped aboveground carbon …
Nations including Democratic Republic of Congo are making surprise progress toward taking part in a $200 million project for slowing deforestation from late 2010, World Bank experts said. They also said Latin America, with forested nations around the Amazon, had strong incentives to take part since most of the continent's …
This document is presented as a background document for the Global Expert Workshop on Biodiversity Benefits of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries, taking place from 20-23 September 2010, in Nairobi. The workshop report will be submitted as an information document to the tenth meeting of …
The continued growth of human populations and of per capita consumption have resulted in unsustainable exploitation of Earth’s biological diversity, exacerbated by climate change, ocean acidification, and other anthropogenic environmental impacts. We argue that effective conservation of biodiversity is essential for human survival and the maintenance of ecosystem processes. Despite …
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) is monitoring the development of national REDD-plus systems in selected countries. This report provides a description and review of national REDD-plus readiness challenges, activities, and progress in Indonesia and Viet Nam, two countries that offer important contrasts for analytical inquiry with respect to …
In this paper, we aim to examine how voluntary carbon markets can provide a valuable contribution to strengthening domestic and international climate policies. Voluntary markets are defined as small and unregulated segments of an established carbon market that are driven by voluntary offsetting of GHG emissions.
Guwahati: Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chief RK Pachauri on Monday called upon Assam and rest of the North East to carry out climate modelling studies to know the impact of climate change. He commented that there should have been much more research on glacier melting in the country. …
Guwahati: Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Chief RK Pachauri on Monday called upon Assam and rest of the North East to carry out climate modelling studies to know the impact of climate change. He commented that there should have been much more research on glacier melting in the country. …
The greater than before attention to forests in international climate change negotiations indicates that both international and national policy makers and think tanks have come to recognize the importance of natural forests as terrestrial carbon sinks.
ON MAY 25, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) released the draft Green India Mission. It aims to reduce carbon emissions by doubling the area taken up for afforestation in the next one decade as a part of the Centre’s climate change action plan. The ministry said the …
Two payment for environmental services programs in the Amazon, namely, Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project in Bolivia and Bolsa Floresta Program in Brazil, have been pioneering initiatives to demonstrate the ability to encourage forest conservation through market mechanisms involving direct payments for avoiding deforestation. This article argues that (a) …
Standards to support the design and implementation of government -led REDD+ programs that respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities and generate significant social and environmental benefits. These standards can be used by governments, NGOs, financing agencies and other stakeholders to support the design and implementation of REDD+ …
Standards to support the design and implementation of government-led REDD+ programs that respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities and generate significant social and environmental benefits.
The focus of this paper is that the contextual issues influencing the adequacy and appropriateness of opportunity cost as a proxy for payments required to get successful REDD+ can be major ones in most tropical developing countries; and resolving them can be expensive and time consuming.
Having unveiled its Rs 44,000 crore 'Green Mission' aiming to enhance its forest cover, India hopes to secure global funding to undertake the ambitious programme to curb greenhouse gas emissions. At a presentation at the Oslo Conference on Climate and Forests yesterday, Environment Secretary Vijai Sharma said, "Since the bulk …
RASHME SEHGAL India has made a special pitch to stop deforestation from logging, crop growing and cattle grazing at the Oslo Conference on climate and forests since this is calculated to account for upto 20 per cent of carbon dioxide presently being released into the atmosphere. Environment secretary Vijai Sharma …
NEW DELHI: The government is considering the establishment of a National REDD+ Coordinating Agency, Environment Secretary Vijai Sharma told a global deforestation conference at Oslo on Thursday. REDD+
Delegates from more than 50 countries and international organisations agreed in Oslo on Thursday to launch an interim partnership to support developing countries' efforts to fight deforestation and reduce emissions. Dubbed REDD+, for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, the programme aims to encourage developing countries to reduce emissions from …
