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Tag: Biodiversity

Forest Scientists: REDD “is not low hanging fruit” and has potential for “catastrophic” impacts on biodiversity

Posted on 24 October 201212 October 2017

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”.

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Global Forest Coalition intervention in UN biodiversity meeting: “Forest policy is much more than REDD+”

Posted on 12 October 201212 October 2012

Since the last UN meeting on Biodiversity two years ago Nagoya, Japan, less than 10% of the countries have taken action to implement the Aichi targets on reducing biodiversity loss.

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