In March 2013, the European Union’s Timber Regulation comes into force. After years of NGO campaigns, endless discussions, conferences and workshops it will become illegal to sell illegally sourced timber in the EU.
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Forest Scientists: REDD “is not low hanging fruit” and has potential for “catastrophic” impacts on biodiversity
A Global Forest Expert Panel is currently working on an assessment of the relationship between biodiversity, forest management and REDD. The Panel presented its key findings at the Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Hyderabad, India last week. A briefing note about the assessment is headlined, “REDD+ May Cut Both Ways”.
Global Forest Coalition intervention in UN biodiversity meeting: “Forest policy is much more than REDD+”
Simone Lovera of Global Forest Coalition points out that “Forest policy is much more than REDD+”.
Counterfactuals and REDD: Confused? You will be
By Chris Lang Trying to calculate how much avoided deforestation has been achieved through a REDD project is not an easy matter. In fact it’s impossible without knowing what would have happened in the absence of the REDD project.
Why does IDEAcarbon believe that carbon offsets reduce emissions?
There is an equation to illustrate that carbon offsets do not reduce emissions: 1 – 1 = 0. Most people can understand this. If emissions are reduced in one place (-1) but through the sales of carbon credits emissions are allowed to continue somewhere else (+1) the overall result is zero. Unfortunately, IDEAcarbon does not…