Deforestation
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wildsingapore news: Financing Said Vital For World Climate Change Deal
wildsingaporenews.blogspot.com via @news_singapore &bull 4 Hours AgoAlister Doyle PlanetArk 2 Sep 10; A global fund to help poorer countries switch to green industrial technology is vital in any new international pact to battle global warming, Switzerland's top climate change negotiator said on Wednesday. The official, Franz Perrez, was speaking at a news conference on the eve of a two-day gathering of environmental ministers and experts from some 45 countries to discuss how to reach agreement on a funding deal. A United Nations summit in Copenhagen at the end of last year ended in serious disarray. Developing nations say billions of dollars are vital to help them… Full Story »
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New climate change mitigation schemes could benefit elites rather than the rural poor
www.eurekalert.org via @carbonmeme &bull 4 Hours AgoOaxaca, Mexico (3 September 2010)With governments across Latin America preparing to implement a new financial mechanism aimed at mitigating climate change by curbing carbon emissions from the destruction of tropical forests, experts gathering here today warned against a "one-size-fits-all" approach, calling instead for flexible, balanced solutions to the thorny dilemmas surrounding this new mechanism. Among the experts' chief worries is that the wealthy and powerful could capture many of the benefits, largely at the expense of rural communities, including indigenous groups. Organized by Mexico's National Forestry Commission and the Swiss government, with scientific support from CIFOR, this conferencewhich opened on… Full Story »
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Climate Change - Conservation International
www.conservation.org via @projchange &bull YesterdayThrough our nature-based approach, CI is demonstrating the important role that ecosystems can play in mitigating and adapting to climate change impacts. A 1-meter (3.3-foot) sea level rise could flood 17 percent of Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries, displacing tens of millions of people and reducing the country's rice-farming land by 50 percent. Reducing global deforestation by 50 percent by 2020 offers nearly… Full Story »
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Cargill Back Pedals on Rainforest Track
Understory (Rainforest Action Network) &bull YesterdayIn response to Cargill's recent announcement stating that they would ignore their promise to take action on widely known rainforest destroyer Sinar Mas, RAN sent out a press release calling Cargill out on failing to do the right thing. Both Reuters and Mongabay picked up the story. San Francisco - In the wake of an audit confirming accusations of environmental abuses by the… Full Story »
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TEEB for Business: you cannot manage what you do not measure
sd.defra.gov.uk via @DefraSusDev &bull YesterdayCharlotte Hounsell reviews the recently published report for business from TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity), encouraging business to incorporate the economics of biodiversity and ecosystem services in all decision-making. It is easy to forget that all businesses depend on biodiversity and ecosystem services, either directly of indirectly. Many continue to overlook the impacts and dependencies their business has on… Full Story »
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Un cinquieme des especes africaines d'eau douce menacees d'extinction
Convention on Biological Diversity: Headlines &bull Sep 2, 2010Un cinquieme des especes africaines d'eau douce sont menacees d'extinction, mettant en danger la subsistance des populations qui en dependent, selon une etude publiee jeudi par l'Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature (UICN). D'apres l'etude, plus de 1000… Full Story »
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Countries That Spurn Climate Remedies Face Barriers on Trade, Stern Says - Bloomberg
www.bloomberg.com via @namroopa &bull Sep 1, 2010Countries that fail to adapt their economies to "cleaner" technologies are likely to lose export markets to those that do, said Nicholas Stern, former chief adviser on climate change to the U.K. government. Ten or 15 years from now, those… Full Story »
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Learning from American Renewable Energy Day (AREDAY) in Aspen
www.solarenergy.org via @solarenergyintl &bull Sep 1, 2010August marked a strange and chilling event - even the glaciers in Greenland were moving faster on climate change than the United States government. But with innovative energy policy taking a backseat to mid-term Washington elections, one thing is clear:… Full Story »
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Organic Baby Clothing: The Best Alternative
globalwarming.gen.in via @babyplanets &bull Sep 1, 2010Organic baby clothing is now getting popular. These are product lines that make use of crops that are grown free from artificial pesticides and fertilizers. Mothers prefer organic baby clothes and are especially conscious in choosing them by looking at… Full Story »
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New Rainforest Alliance Standard Targets Cattle Farming
GreenBiz.com &bull Sep 1, 2010NEW YORK, NY - The Rainforest Alliance has launched a new certification aimed at helping cattle farms improve their environmental and social performance. The new certification standard from RA and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) aims to… Full Story »
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Amazon Deforestation Down 16% Over Past Year, New Data Shows
TreeHugger &bull Sep 1, 2010According to preliminary data from Brazilian NGO Imazon and Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is down 16% over the past twelve months, with 1,488 square kilometers (574 square miles) of forest cleared. All… Full Story »
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The REAL Amazon-gate: On the Brink of Collapse Reveals Million $ Study Stephen Leahy, International Environmental Journalist
stephenleahy.net via @StephenLeahy &bull Sep 1, 2010The Amazon jungle "is very close to a tipping point," and if destruction continues, it could shrink to one third of its original size in just 65 years, warns Thomas Lovejoy, world-renowned tropical biologist. Climate change, deforestation and fire are the drivers of this potential Amazonian apocalypse, according to Lovejoy, biodiversity chair at the Washington DC-based Heinz Centre for Science, Economics and the Environment, and chief biodiversity adviser to the president of the World Bank. Lovejoy laid out the scenario for participants at the Biodiversity Science Policy Conference in Paris last week, sponsored by UNESCO (United Nations Educational,… Full Story »
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Bono, Russian Rocker Help Halt Controversial Highway through Moscow's Khimki Forest
TreeHugger &bull Sep 1, 2010Russian authorities are not known for responding to popular protests, but when one of the country's most famous musicians and one of the world's biggest rock stars added their voices to the angry demonstrations against building a highway through an… Full Story »
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Global Warming Impact on Forests Woodlands Global Warming: Man or Myth?
profmandia.wordpress.com via @AGW_Prof &bull Sep 1, 2010Greenhouse gas emissions have significantly altered global climate, and will continue to do so in thefuture. Increases in the frequency, duration, and/or severity of drought and heat stress associated withclimate change could fundamentally alter the composition, structure, and biogeography of forests inmany regions. Of particular concern are potential increases in tree mortality associated with climate induced physiological stress and interactions with other climate-mediated processes such as insectoutbreaks and wildfire (Allen et al., 2010). Forests have been identified as being very vulnerable to climate change in the long run but may be more vulnerable in the short term if other disturbances… Full Story »
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Burning bush | Climate Change TV
www.climate-change.tv via @RTCCngo &bull Sep 1, 2010Forest fires raging across Central Kalimantan have destroyed vital peat swamp forests - and exacerbated climate change. Travelling with Dr Limin, this edition of Earth Report explored the fallout from the conflagration, and assessed the full scale of the disaster.… Full Story »
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What technology/policy changes do you think will most likely combat climate change?
www.globalwarmingcause.net via @climaticwatch &bull Sep 1, 2010For example, Carbon capture storage development, switch to nuclear, change in lifestyles, cellulosic (sp?) biomass.. I do not know all the options by far, but want to hear people's ideas and views. I'd suggest a policy banning the teaching of… Full Story »
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Wildlife Conservation: Saving the orangutans may also help fight global warming | Mike Hitchen Online: i On Global Trends - news, opinion, analysis
ionglobaltrends.blogspot.com via @MikeHitchen &bull Sep 1, 2010The award winning, flagship blog of Mike Hitchen Online. Read by government departments, NGOs, schools, universities, child welfare organisations and numerous agencies. Over 12,000 articles on over 500 topics including Human Rights, Corruption, Human Trafficking, Bilateral Relations, Child Exploitation, Child Trafficking, Child Soldiers, Zimbabwe, Iran, Sri Lanka, Middle East, Burma and the tragic ongoing betrayal of Madeleine McCann. Indonesia… Full Story »
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GreenCollar Climate Solutions Lord Stern plugs forestry, says Australia can do a lot on climate change
greencollarclimate.com.au via @SustLandManage &bull Sep 1, 2010Esteemed climate economist Lord Nicholas Stern stressed the importance of deforestation in ameliorating the impacts of climate change while speaking at the National Press Club today. He also said Australia could do a lot on climate change, that the world… Full Story »
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AFP: Fires cost Russia '300 billion dollars' in deforestation
www.google.com via @apmnicimod &bull Sep 1, 2010MOSCOW Wildfires have cost Russia 300 billion dollars in forest loss, environmentalists said on Thursday, explaining the scale of the disaster by Vladimir Putin's "absurd" changes to forestry law. The economic damage amounts to 25,000 dollars per hectare (2.4 acres), or at least 300 billion dollars, according to estimates based on the… Full Story »
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Morgan Stanley to underwrite coal mining on Borneo
Monga Bay &bull Sep 1, 2010
Morgan Stanley, CIMB Securities, and Credit Suisse will underwrite the initial public offering of PT Borneo Lumbung Energi (Borneo Energy), a company that owns Asmin Koalindo Tuhup, a mining company that operates in Central Kalimantan in Indonesia Borneo, reports ANTARA. The listing aims to raise roughly $250 by selling… Full Story »
