Pricing forest carbon
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
REDD
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Bamboo and climate change mitigation
This report analyses the work carried out to date to explore different aspects of bamboo
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Contracting for forest carbon: elements of a model forest carbon purchase agreement
Forest carbon payments
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Agreement on new emission cut regime unlikely at Cancun
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 achieving a binding treaty and it did not happen.
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Climate change conference begins today in Cancun
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 Climate Change Conference that gets under way here on Monday may not result in
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Mexico Eyes Climate Funds For Locally Run Forests
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 to convince them that saving the forest is better than clear-cutting for agricu
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Pakistan worst victim of climate change: experts
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.
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Investors Hope U.N. Talks Keep Climate Deal On Track
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.
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Climate change and REDD-plus
Climate change and REDD-plus by Jagdish Kishwan presented at the South Asian Media Briefing on Climate Change, CSE, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 24
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Climate change: Poznan- Copenhagen-Cancun What is at stake and play?
<p><span id="itro1">The presentation by Sunita Narain at the South Asian Media Briefing Workshop organized by <b>Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in </b>New Delhi, Nov 24-25, 2010. Says that we are compromising our position in climate negotiations and getting too little to prevent climate change.</span></p>
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Climate change: Poznan- Copenhagen-Cancun What is at stake and play?
Climate change: Poznan- Copenhagen-Cancun What is at stake and play? by Sunita Narain, Director, CSE presented at the South Asian Media Briefing on Climate Change, CSE, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 24