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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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Indigenous People Call For
REDD+ Safeguards In
California's Carbon Market
The REDD Offset Working Group or ROW is the group tasked with finding best practices to incorporating REDD+ into California's emerging ...
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Experts Look Ahead to California REDD
Support for allowing international offset credits based on REDD+ in California’s cap-and-trade program predates the program’s launch. Months after the state’s ...
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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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How Costa Rica and Chile are Leveraging Independent Carbon Standards to Get Ready for REDD
The United Nations and World Bank are spearheading efforts to help developing countries get ready for REDD, but many countries across ...
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Offset Providers Ink Deal over Landmark
Forest Conservation Project In Acre, Brazil
Regional governments like Brazil’s Acre state are tweaking tools to monetize the climate benefits of statewide forest conservation – through actions ...
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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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Big REDD Week For Two Brazilian States
The Brazilian state of Mato Grosso this week enacted the law implementing its State System of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and ...
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Indigenous Leader to NGOs:
No One Speaks For Us – Or Thinks For Us
While a small contingent of indigenous leaders and NGOs were campaigning against REDD in California this week, many more were at ...
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New voluntary carbon platform rooted in Colombian forests
A consortium of Colombian banks and NGOs hopes to harness the power of REDD for a more broad-based ecosystem marketplace.  Like ...
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Colombia Mega Dam Will Destroy
Habitat for Threatened Birds
A recently discovered species of wren is under threat along with the endangered Military Macaw from the construction of what is ...
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If Brazil Guts its Forest Code,
Will it Kill the Rural Economy?
If signed into law by President Dilma, Brazil’s newly-amended forest code will give farmers the right to chop down more trees ...
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Indigenous Groups, Development Bank, and Yale University Move Forward With Cooperation on REDD
Negotiations remain deadlocked in Durban, but a coalition of rainforest people are moving forward with plans to build up capacity for ...
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Anti-Logging Activist Murdered as Brazil Moves to Reduce Protection of the Amazon Rainforest
A prominent anti-logging activist was murdered along with his wife in Brazil on Tuesday, just hours before the country's Chamber of ...
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Will Brazil Change its Forest Code – and Kill the Amazon?
Many credit Brazil’s 75-year old Forest Code with helping to slow destruction of the Amazon Rainforest, but an unlikely amalgamation of ...
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20 Million Green Votes in Play on Eve of Brazilian Presidential Election
Marina Silva won't be on the ballot when Brazil chooses its new president this weekend, but the 20 million people who ...
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Peruvians Hope Nested Approach Today Will Halt Deforestation Tomorrow
Peru needs at least a year to formulate its strategy for conserving forests in the fight against climate change, but a ...
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Setting up Nest: Acre, Brazil, and the Future of REDD
Rainforest nations want to earn carbon credits by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), but to do ...
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Indigenous Leaders Taking REDD Into Their Own Hands
Less than 2% of Brazil’s indigenous tribes have undertaken projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD), ...
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Payments for Ecosystem Services: Scaling Up…and Down
More and more people are trying to save nature by making sure our economy recognizes the value of the carbon she ...
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