British parliamentarian Barry Gardiner, a passionate advocate on environmental policy, talks to Forests News about REDD+ during the 18th United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (UNFCCC COP18) in Doha, Qatar.
This presentation by Gabrielle Kissinger and Martin Herold, given at a UNFCCC COP18 side-event, shares findings from a recently published global assessment on the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation.
While progress is being made at the local level to move ahead with an international scheme to reduce carbon emissions via decreasing deforestation (REDD+), countries at the Doha UN climate summit need to ‘think big on emissions targets and funding’…
In 2010, Mozambican export figures show almost $49 million worth of timber shipped out of the country bound for China. Chinese import figures show over $134 million in wood landed from Mozambique. The discrepancy of $85.4 million is roughly equivalent …
