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Perseverance Pays Off For
Massive Indonesian REDD Project
Five years in the making, the Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve Project has overcome seemingly insurmountable political challenges to become one of the ...
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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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Replicating Policy That Works:
PES In Mexico
Since environmental services' emergence as a concept in 1997, there have been many efforts to internalize the idea and transform theory ...
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Empowering Women,
One Carbon Ton At A Time
A new standard aims to carve out a space in the voluntary carbon market for projects that empower women by getting ...
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Kenyan Farmers Boost Yields With
Payments For Watershed Services
For two years now, flower growers along the shore of Kenya’s Lake Naivasha have been paying farmers in the hills 40 ...
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PWS In Kenya: How WWF And CARE
Found Common Ground In High Hills
Subsistence farmers in the hills above Kenya’s Lake Naivasha face an uncertain future, and climate-change has only made it worse. Here’s ...
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Kenyan Flower-Growers Use Watershed Payments To Save Their Lake And Their Livelihoods
Flower growers in Kenya’s Rift Valley have gradually reduced their runoff to keep their water clean, but subsistence farmers high in ...
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Engaging With Indigenous
Peoples On REDD+
Over 30 representatives of Indigenous Peoples worldwide have gathered at a Forest Carbon Partnership Facility's (FCPF) workshop on REDD+ which, Benoit ...
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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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Through Almir's Eyes:
A Day In The Life Of A REDD Pioneer
In an effort to support their groundbreaking REDD project, the Amazonian Paiter-Surui People have been patrolling their forest in search of ...
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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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Suing to Stop Climate Change
While governments drag their feet on climate change, to what extent can nuisance lawsuits and other types of legal actions fill ...
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Linking Smallholders to Modern Markets
Picking up flowers at the supermarket is an easy task for the average consumer, but the journey that those flowers take ...
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Key Redactions on Safeguards in New Draft of REDD+ Partnership Workplan
The REDD+ Partnership is convening alongside the official Cancun climate negotiations to establish a Work Program through 2012.  But despite ...
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First-Ever African Soil-Carbon Deal Signed at Hague Investment Fair
Small-holder farmers in Kenya are changing their farming practices and earning carbon credits. This is a result of the first ...
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UN Biodiversity Boss Says Convergence with Carbon Markets Could Turn REDD+ Into Win-Win for Species
In 2002, the United Nations set out 20 targets to halt the decline of biodiversity by the end of this year ...
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EM Podcast: Planting Empowerment (and Spreading the Wealth)
Project developer Planting Empowerment earns carbon credits by leasing – rather than buying – degraded forest so that local owners can ...
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The New FCP Helps Forge the Global Forest Carbon Community
Marketplaces have long provided a place where buyers and sellers can swap not only bids, offers, and products, but also ideas.  ...
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Brazilian Stakeholders Urge Feds to Go REDD
Farmers, indigenous tribes, and environmental NGOs across Brazil say they need direct payments for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation ...
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Guaraqueçaba: Where the Buffalo Roamed
If efforts to save the tropical rainforests by Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) ever yield large-scale results, it will ...
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