Para propulsar las pláticas climáticas a finales del año en Lima, Perú será el anfitrión de la Reunión Katoomba XX del martes 22 al viernes 25 de abril, para enfocarse en la interacción entre clima, bosques y agua. Katoomba XX contará con luminarias como la brasileña Marina Silva, y será transmitido por Forest Trends’ Valorando […]
Peruvians have spent the last six years developing a comprehensive legal framework for the sticky issue of payments for ecosystem services (PES). The current bill is one of the most advanced pieces of legislation of its type, but it’s been stuck in committee for five years, and will remain so as the 20th Katoomba Meeting kicks off next week in Lima on Earth Day.
El pasado 10 diciembre de 2013, una comisión del Congreso de la República de Perú aprobó el dictamen de la ley que oficializaría y pondría en marcha efectiva mecanismos de retribución por servicios ecosistémicos en ese país. De acuerdo a sus gestores, este dictamen de ley aprobada por la Comisión de Ambiente y […]
By saving their Manu National Park, Peruvians have engineered a biodiversity boom – just as more research shows that undisrupted and biodiversity-rich ecosystems recover more rapidly from disturbances brought on by climate change. Lauren Cooper of Nature Services Peru says this should put REDD front-and-center at year-end climate talks there.
Latin America leads the world in REDD activity – and in public-sector peldges to ramp it up. New research shows that those pledges are, in fact, being kept, and in ways that are beginning to deliver verifiable results. Here’s a look at findings from the Forest Trends REDDx initiative.