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China Uses Market-Like Mechanisms To
Promote Reforestation Of Sloping Lands
Rapid expansion of agriculture has led to the destruction of forested hills critical for regulating water flows. China’s expansion has been ...
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ADB Water Boss Courts Private
Buyers For Chinese Water Markets
On the opening day of the 18th Katoomba meeting in Beijing, the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Water Resources Specialist, Zhang Qingfeng, ...
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China Aims For Scale, Scope, And Reach
In Payments For Ecosystem Services
China’s eco-compensation programs are among the most comprehensive payments for ecosystem services on the planet, but delegates to the 18th ...
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Can Katoomba 18 Help
The Miyun Reservoir?
More than 200 delegates to Katoomba 18 from as far away as Peru, Switzerland, and Ghana will be spending the ...
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The Business Of Climate-
Adaptation: Keeping It Fair
Climate change will disrupt the global economy in ways none of us really know, and companies that properly adapt to it ...
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Powerful Forest Friends Deliver Indonesian Approval of Landmark REDD Project
The Rimba Raya REDD Project is on again – one year after being put on ice when Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry ...
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Carbon Finance Unit Of The World
Bank Sees Initiatives Move Forward
The World Bank received good news recently with several of its climate initiatives moving into new phases starting with the first ...
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Community Carbon Pools Help
Vietnamese Villagers Get Ready For REDD+
Forest communities stand to benefit tremendously from REDD+, but only if tenure rights are incorporated into the decision-making process and benefits ...
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Vietnam Goes For Flexibility In
Nested Approach To REDD+
Vietnam's REDD+ National Action Plan gives it plenty of flexibility in designing a nested approach to REDD+, and a recent report ...
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Forests or Agriculture: Not Necessarily
An All Or Nothing Trade-Off
In order to measure the impact and success of climate change mitigation actions in terms of forestry and agriculture, researchers at ...
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Can Micronesia Save Its
Reefs By Fixing Its Ridges?
Micronesia’s 2,100 islands and atolls are mere specs on the ocean upon which they depend, but activities on land are destroying ...
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Ecosystem Marketplace Guide To Doha Side Events
 As our Ecosystem Marketplace team prepares to join the (albeit downsized) mass of avid climate talk followers to Doha, we set ...
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Massive Ugandan Experiment Asks: Does PES Really Promote Sustainable Land Use?
Most take it as a given that payments for ecosystem services promote good land stewardship, but do they really? A massive ...
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China Uses Eco-Compensation
to Combat Water Shortages
As China expands economically, one of the largest resource constraints is clean drinking water, a problem being addressed in part by ...
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Indonesia Bets on REDD With new Moratorium, but can it Deliver?
Indonesia has banned logging in primary forests and dredging in peatlands to unlock up to $1 billion in seed funding from ...
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Roundtable Hopes Inclusiveness Will Lead to Cohesion in New Zealand and Australia
Cash-strapped governments around the world are turning to mechanisms that preserve endangered species by incorporating the cost of habitat destruction into ...
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China Transacts First Panda Standard VERs
Answering China’s call for intensified emissions targets, the nation yesterday saw its first transaction of voluntary carbon credits piloted under the ...
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Green Gold: How Carbon Finance can Help Mongolian Herders
Mongolia's GDP is set to surge as mining interest move into the country in a big way, but its agriculture sector ...
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PES in Southeast Asia: An Online Resource for Students and Practitioners
The 17th Katoomba Meeting in Hanoi helped crystallize local and global understanding of Vietnam's evolving payments for ecosystem services regime. ...
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Markets and Mangroves: Financing Conservation in Southeast Asia
Under Construction:  We will soon be posting presentations and summaries from the private mangrove workshop that took place in Vietnam ...
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