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A Critical Moment To Harness Green
Infrastructure To Secure Clean Water
The 18th Katoomba Meeting begins Thursday in Beijing, and will focus on the interaction between forests and water. Todd Gartner of ...
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Game Changer: The Mitigation Analyst Tool
The National Mitigation Banking Association (NMBA) has a new tool in the works that swiftly turns mounds of data into high ...
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Dear President Obama: For Clean Air,
Do We Dial 111, Boxer, Or Waxman?
The EPA is slated to pass regulations on power plants this year under the Clean Air Act, while Senators Boxer and ...
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Banking on Change: Rethinking Wetland
Mitigation in the State of New York
Wetland Mitigation Banking has proven to be one of the most environmentally effective and economically efficient ways of compensating for wetland ...
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Stacking And Unstacking:
The Conservation And The Conversation
To build ecosystem markets, we’ve tended to break holistic nature into incomplete but measurable chunks of nature – and then we ...
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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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Five Early Lessons In Mobilizing
The Private Sector For Climate Finance
Although there is currently little information available on how public finance has mobilized private support for climate finance, the Overseas Development ...
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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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Will Biodiversity Proponents
Embrace Business in 2013?
Last year’s Biodiversity COP once again failed to engage the private sector on any meaningful level, let alone embrace market-based financing ...
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Legitimate REDD Players Should Welcome
Brazilian Action Against Carbon Cowboys
Legitimate carbon projects have long been wrongfully tarnished by the actions of bad players acting outside the recognized carbon community. Now ...
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From REDD To Landscape Thinking:
How To Proceed
COP 18 may have laid the groundwork for further discussions about an integrated approach to landscapes that would connect the different ...
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600-Strong Coalition Says No REDD Campaign Is Way Off-Target
The Amazon Working Group, which, represents roughly 600 social movement organizations across the Amazon Basin, has made a rare public denunciation ...
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We Have To Fight For Truth, Even If
It Is Against Our Own Desires And Vanities
Jose Carmelio Niinawa heads the Hunikui Federation in Acre, Brazil, and says California’s new REDD regime has stalled the process of ...
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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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Depletion, Disease and Drought:
An Ecologist's Take On This Year's Election
Leading ecologist Steven Apfelbaum observes the upcoming presidential election noting three critical issues, soil nutrient depletion, prolonged severe weather and drought, ...
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California Policy Makers Must Hear
Variety Of Indigenous Voices
More and more indigenous groups are contemplating the use of REDD credits, but a small coalition of NGOs have headed to ...
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Welcome To The UN's
Secret Climate Adaptation Summit
The UN CBD bi-annual summit in India this month isn’t receiving anywhere near the media attention climate change conferences receive, which ...
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Latest Climate Signs Should
Jolt Leaders Into Global Action
Although climate change has seemingly disappeared from the global political agenda, the CDKN offers four recent pieces of evidence that show ...
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We Must Embrace Technology If
The Private Sector Is To Embrace REDD
The REDD financing mechanism aims to leverage private-sector funding for the conservation and sustainable management of tropical rainforests, but it won’t ...
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Greenpeace: Protecting The People, Not The Polluters
This is a response from Greenpeace to Dr. Daniel Nepstad’s critique of Greenpeace’s report, Outsourcing Hot Air, that criticized a carbon ...
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