May 16, 2012
Regulations and structures to handle Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation+ (REDD) programmes, as well as building linkages with local communites and utilising local knowledge may be the key to the transboundary haze situation.
The 2nd Ministerial Steering Committee (MSC) Forum on Transboundary Haze last week decided that there is a need for regulations and incentives to be put in place by governments in order to induce the market to...
The progressive disappearance of seed-dispersing animals like elephants and rhinoceroses puts the structural integrity and biodiversity of the tropical forest of South-East Asia at risk. With the help of Spanish researchers, an international team of experts has confirmed that not even herbivores like tapirs can replace them.
“Megaherbivores act as the ‘gardeners’ of humid tropical forests: They are vital to forest regeneration and maintain its structure and biodiversity...
Peatlands store tremendous amounts of carbon. However, when they are drained and used – mainly for agriculture, grazing and forestry – peatlands become significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions. Peatlands drainage and peat fires are responsible for almost one-quarter of carbon emissions from the land use sector.
This report is a handbook for policy makers, technical audiences and others interested in peatlands. A decision support tree guides through opportunities...
May 9, 2012
Winrock International is recruiting applicants for the position of Country Coordinator, Malaysia for an ongoing USAID-funded regional climate change program focused on the forest/land use sector. A dynamic, motivated local candidate is sought to manage the implementation of a series of Malaysia-specific activities in close coordination with the regional project management team in Bangkok. The Lowering Emissions in Asia’s Forests (LEAF) program’s goal is to strengthen the capacity of target...
April 24, 2012
Face the Future is hiring a Managing Director, to be located in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The organization works with several partners worldwide on the development and management of forest (carbon) projects. The projects Face the Future participates in have a strong variety (VCS, conservation, FSC, sustainable timber) but have sustainability as common ground.
Face the Future consist of 5 professionals, based in Rotterdam, a relatively autonomously operating company of...
April 20, 2012
Now, with 7 billion people on the planet — heading to 10 billion — and with greenhouse gas emissions threatening more rapid temperature rises than the warming that brought the last Ice Age to an end, the many millions of living things on Earth face an unprecedented squeeze. Is a wave of extinctions possible, and if so, what can we do about it?
On land, tropical biodiversity hotspots in places such as the Amazon and the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia are especially...
April 19, 2012
Conservation of tropical forests is of outstanding importance for mitigation of climate change effects and preserving biodiversity. In Borneo most of the forests are classified as permanent forest estates and are selectively logged using conventional logging techniques causing high damage to the forest ecosystems.
Incorporation of sustainable forest management into climate change mitigation measures such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (...
April 16, 2012
The UNFCCC Secretariat released submissions from Parties containing their views on modalities and procedures for financing results-based actions and considering activities related to decision 1/CP.16 (The Cancun Agreements: Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA)) paragraphs 68-70 and 72 (relating to policy approaches and positive incentives on issues relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest...
The UNFCCC Secretariat has released 18 submissions from Parties containing their views on modalities and procedures for financing results-based actions and considering activities related to decision 1/CP.16 (The Cancun Agreements: Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention (AWG-LCA)) paragraphs 68-70 and 72 (relating to policy approaches and positive incentives on issues relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest...
April 10, 2012
International environmental organizations are warning that Burma’s forests and unique fauna and flora will struggle to survive as the country opens up to foreign business investment. The threat, they say, comes companies being squeezed in their own countries by environmental laws or land shortages due to palm oil and wood pulp production.
Decades of isolation have helped to keep Burma’s native forests relatively intact, but political reforms which are opening up...