Results from a recent report made it official that indigenous peoples act as good land stewards and vital players in reducing deforestation and combating climate change. Financial mechanisms like REDD can aid indigenous peoples in preserving their land and mitigating climate change.
The Green Climate Fund gained momentum during the international climate negotiations here in Lima, Peru, surpassing the $10 billion mark and securing landmark financial commitments from both developed and developing countries. Now the race begins to assess and finance the first projects, including possibly REDD+, ahead of the Paris climate talks in December 2015.
Conforme las conversaciones sobre el clima entran a la mitad del camino, los negociadores han empujado a hablar más de las salvaguardias de nuevo a junio de 2015, con el fin de centrarse en la creación de un marco para Aportes Previstos con Determinación Nacional a detener el cambio climático. Nos sentamos con algunas de […]
Today, Belgium helped the Green Climate Fund reach its $10 billion goal with a $60 million contribution. Because far more funds are needed to address the enormous challenge that is climate change, reaching the $10 billion mark is as much a symbolic achievement as it is financial, analysts say.
Ecosystem Marketplace is right in the middle of the action in Lima, Peru this week, where, after last’s Warsaw COP, market participants are expecting a quiet year in terms of concrete decisions on forests – and that’s what they’ve mostly gotten so far.
In Australia, New South Wales’ biodiversity offset policy receives a mixed bag of feedback. Conservationists in the US are unhappy with an interpretation of a phrase within the US Endangered Species Act and organizers of next year’s annual National Mitigation and Ecosystem Banking Conference are accepting presentation submissions.
Last week’s assassination of Peruvian indigenous leader Edwin Chota and three other indigenous leaders took much of the world by surprise, but Ash¡ninka leaders and human rights campaigners active along the Peru/Brazil border had been warning of the danger that illegal loggers posed since 1999.
21 de noviembre 2014 | Washington, DC | La demanda de compensaciones de carbono obtenidas a partir de la protección o renovación forestal creció un 17% en 2013 dado que las empresas y gobiernos invirtieron US$192 millones en esfuerzos para plantar árboles, mejorar la gestión forestal, apoyar la agricultura “climáticamente inteligente” o evitar la deforestación. […]
21 November 2014 | Washington, D.C. | Demand for carbon offsets earned from forest protection or renewal grew 17% in 2013 as companies and governments invested $192 million in efforts to plant trees, improve forest management, support “climate-smart” agriculture, or avoid deforestation. This value finances forestry that naturally reduces or avoids 32.7 million tonnes of […]
El asesinato de cuatro líderes indígenas en septiembre convirtió a la deforestación en el centro de atención antes de las conversaciones climáticas de fin de año, que comenzarán en menos de dos semanas en Lima. La hija de uno de los líderes – el 57mo “Defensor del Medio Ambiente”, asesinado en el Perú desde 2002 […]