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Plantations are not forests!

Posted on 25 March 20151 June 2018

21 March was International Day of Forests. The theme this year, chosen by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation was “Forests | Climate | Change”. FAO explains that this theme was chosen “purposely to highlight the ways in which forests and climate change are linked, and to rally global support for greater action and change”.

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The Warsaw Framework for REDD Plus: The decision on national forest monitoring systems

Posted on 10 December 20138 November 2019

The Warsaw decision on national forest monitoring systems allows governments to decide for themselves how they define “forests”. A better way of undermining what little legitimacy REDD had is difficult to imagine.

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Only 10% of global carbon emissions come from tropical deforestation

Posted on 27 June 20126 September 2018

“How much carbon is emitted from tropical deforestation?” asks Daniel J. Zarin of the Climate and Land Use Alliance in the most recent issue of Science magazine. The answer may be considerably less than previously thought.

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Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation Resolution on Secondary Forests

Posted on 6 November 201115 February 2018

“Secondary forests are a major terrestrial carbon sink and reliable estimates of their carbon stocks are pivotal for understanding the global carbon balance and initiatives to mitigate CO2 emissions through forest management and reforestation.” This is the first sentence of a recently published paper in Forest Ecology and Management.

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New CIFOR report points out the flaws in Indonesia’s forest moratorium

Posted on 1 November 201119 January 2015

There is much to criticise in Indonesia’s moratorium on new forestry concessions. Many of these criticisms have been put forward in previous posts on REDD-Monitor (here, here and here). A recent briefing from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) points out serious flaws with the moratorium and then makes suggestions for improving it.

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