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June 24, 2010
David Diaz
As international policy frameworks and pledges of billions of dollars move REDD+ forward, many observers remain concerned over how to ensure the lofty promises being made for global forest conservation will actually provide broader social and environmental benefits. The issue of safeguards took center stage this week in Washington, DC through a day-long forum of REDD+ policymakers, practitioners, and observers.
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May 11, 2010
Steve Zwick
The UN has declared 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity, but the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) remains the poor (and largely forgotten) sibling to the headline-grabbing climate-change convention (UNFCCC). Delegates to CBD talks in Nairobi this week and next are looking at schemes designed to change that, in part by embedding more biodiversity values in the global carbon market.
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October 9, 2009
Steve Zwick
The fifteenth Katoomba Meeting has wrapped up, and are beginning to upload streaming content from sessions on how Western Africa can harvest the power of Payments for Ecosystem Services to ensure a green tomorrow.
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November 18, 2007
For years forestry carbon--paying for the carbon sequestered by trees--has been the subject of intense debate among those interested in the world's carbon markets. Critics claim these projects are all about greenwashing, naysayers say they are difficult to monitor and skeptics charge they lead to large plantations of eucalyptus. But, while the debate around forestry carbon rages, a forestry carbon project in Uganda has benefited local communities, local biodiversity and local businesses while, arguably, helping the global climate. The Ecosystem Marketplace profiles Beatrice Ahimbisibwe, one of the program's local participants.
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State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2009 report
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