Last week, the World Resources Institute, Google and more than 40 partners launched an online forest monitoring system. It’s called Global Forest Watch. It’s free and available to anyone with an internet connection.
Tag: Deforestation
REDD myth no. 1: Deforestation accounts for 25% of greenhouse gas emissions
Myth: “Deforestation accounts for 25 percent of all man-made emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.”
Why the National Assembly should hold public hearings on the Guyana Forestry Commission
In November 2013, Guyanese government agencies released 41 reports to the National Assembly. Several of these were overdue, including a series of annual reports from the Guyana Forestry Commission from 2005 to 2012.
Peru approves the expansion of the Camisea gas project into indigenous peoples’ reserve
Peru has given the go-ahead to the expansion of the Camisea gas project onto the land of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation. The impacts on the people and their forest will be devastating.
Avoided deforestation or avoiding the issue? USAID’s forest carbon project in West Bali National Park in Indonesia
Last week, a small announcement appeared on the website of the US Embassy in Jakarta: “The United States government and the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry today launched a new rainforest standard for carbon credits in West Bali National Park.”