Will Last Month’s Climate Summit Stir Real Action on Climate Change?
The United Nations Climate Summit walks the walk, California and Quebec go courting and scientists start pointing the climate change finger
Search Results for: Peru
This Week In Forest Carbon: Half Of Tropical Deforestation Comes From Illegal Activities
A new study published by Forest Trends finds that 49% of tropical deforestation since the turn of the millennium has been due to illegal land conversion for commercial agriculture. Fighting illicit activity in tropical forests can be dangerous and sometimes even fatal. Forest Carbon News also covers a recent photo report that documents Ka’apor warriors in Brazil capturing illegal loggers.
Leaders From Business, Government, And Indigenous Communities Aim To Keep Forests Central At Climate Summit
The UN Climate Summit launches on Tuesday in New York, and indigenous leaders hope to keep forests front and center with a Monday event.
After The March, Time To Get Serious On Forest Carbon
The Peoples’ Climate March brought 400,000 people into the streets of New York City on September 21, calling for (among other climate-related demands) an end to tropical deforestation and protection for forest communities. More than 150 partners responded with the heavily funded NY Declaration on Forests, which aims to end deforestation by 2030 and restore 350 million hectares of forests and croplands.
Amazon Leader Tashka Yawanaw¡ to Highlight Indigenous Issues At TED Talks
6 October 2014 | As a boy, Tashka Yawanaw¡ watched as the culture of his people was nearly wiped out by outsiders. Now, he is the chief of those people, the Yawanaw¡, of the Acre region of Brazil, and Tuesday he will be a speaker at one of the largest conferences in the world, TEDGlobal 2014. […]
With Lima Talks Over, Attention Shifts To Country Initiatives
The Lima Climate Talks wrapped up early Sunday morning with a bare-bones agreement on what constitutes a valid Intended Nationally-Determined Contribution (INDC) and a roadmap to year-end talks in 2015 that will begin with bottom-up proposals from countries and hopefully end with a convergence in Paris. With so little detail on INDCs, countries will have to step up individually by March.
Climate Talks Continue Into Sunday As Negotiators Attempt Circumcision Without Amputation
UPDATE: 13 December 2014 | 11:17 GMT-5 | A new text is reportedly circulating among the negotiating groups, but the plenary scheduled for 11pm has been postponed until after midnight. 13 December 2014 | LIMA | Peru | 1:42pm GMT-5 | Negotiators meeting under the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP) […]
As Corporates Vow To Purge Deforestation From Supply Chains, A New Conservation Model Emerges
More and more leading consumer goods companies are taking “Zero Deforestation pledges vows that have made for some strange bedfellows, but are also leading business, government and indigenous community leaders to find the advantages to working together.
Global Leaders Pledge $1 Billion To End Deforestation By 2030
A coalition of government, business, civil society and indigenous leaders have joined forces for a historic pledge to end deforestation by 2030. But it’s not just an empty promise as the parties have committed a total of $1 billion to get this ambitious effort off the ground.
Opinion: It’s Time To Get Real About Climate Change
The climate debate is shifting from “How do we keep global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius?” to “How do we manage life in the Anthropocene?” For the fact is that we’ve now entered a new era that we cannot negotiate our way out of, and we need to implement policies that manage the risks associated with temperature increases well above that threshold.