All week, we’ve heard how the China-US Climate Pact changed the climate game for the better, and most of what we’ve heard is wrong. The game has changed alright, but it didn’t change this week in Beijing; it changed last year in Warsaw. If you don’t understand that, then nothing that happens at the December talks in Lima will make sense.
Over the last five years, coalitions such as The Blue Carbon Initiative, which aims to develop financial incentives and policy mechanisms for restoring and conserving blue carbon ecosystems, have emerged rapidly. The group released a manual for measuring blue carbon stocks last month and hopes that the guide will be used in emerging carbon methodologies, as well as IPCC accounting.
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China looms large as it launches six jurisdictional emission trading systems and makes plans for a national carbon market in 2016. Meanwhile, the Rio summer Olympics plan to be carbon neutral and scientists flex their vocabulary.
Ecosystem Marketplace publisher Forest Trends today kicked off a six-week fundraising effort as part of a crowdsourcing effort being spearheaded by the Skoll Foundation. To support this effort, we will be publishing short pieces each week highlighting a different aspect of Forest Trends’s work on climate change, watershed management, and biodiversity protection. Here’s our first installment.
Never before have we known as much about the synergies between forest carbon and biodiversity as we do now, but that knowledge has been hidden beneath layers of impenetrable gobbledygook. A new sourcebook aims to fix that by scraping away the jargon and connecting dots previously visible only to experts. More importantly, it succeeds.
The climate community went to Peru and left with the Lima Call for Climate Action, the Green Climate Fund finally found a fraction of its funding and carbon dioxide fades into obscurity like a childhood celebrity.
Indonesia’s federal government has embarked on the most ambitious REDD program of any major forested nation, but it’s not easy to implement such a program in a land of a thousand islands spread across two million square kilometers. Here’s a look back on the early days of REDD in Indonesia and around the world
Indonesia’s federal government has embarked on the most ambitious REDD program of any major forested nation, but it’s not easy to implement such a program in a land of a thousand islands spread across two million square kilometers. Ecosystem Marketplace’s fifth installment of the REDD in Indonesia series takes a look at the early days of REDD, back in 2007.
The future of the proposed rule clarifying jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act is still unclear as its public comment period is once again extended. Meanwhile, a World Wildlife Fund study sadly finds humans are responsible for half of wildlife loss in the last 40 years and the world is far from reaching the Aichi Biodiversity Targets by 2020.