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Indonesia aims to overhaul forest mess with moratorium(Reuters) - Indonesia's moratorium on clearing rainforests has not lived up to high expectations but is still a chance to fix the country's poor forestry management to spur projects to gain emissions credits, said the official in charge of the scheme. Indonesia's president in May finally signed the two-year moratorium as part of a $1 billion climate deal with Norway, after a five-month delay, revealing a long-list of exemptions that disappointed environmentalists but were a boost to the hard-lobbying plantation industry. Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, the head of a taskforce on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD), had proposed including secondary forest as ... + READ MORE |
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Poor will pay the price to cut carbon emissions While Australians grapple with the idea of putting a price on carbon, in many developing countries the choice looks more like a trade-off between national development out of poverty and global action to limit climate change. In developing countries, greenhouse gas emissions don't primarily gush from power stations but from land-use: from the forest burning traditions of subsistence farmers in Asia to the large scale clearing of forest in South America to produce commodities for export. The global community is now asking for limits on this expansion. Industrialised nations in their own interests spent 200 years creating wealth through burning fossil fuels, but now require the rest of the world to act for the global good. Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono passed a two-year moratorium last month on logging concessions. African nations are working with the World Bank's Biocarbon Fund to pursue funds from the sale of carbon sequestration - locked-up forests - while vast areas of cultivatable land on the African continent are being secured by nations from elsewhere for food production. As Professor Ross Garnaut terms i... + READ MORE |
Analysis: Economy, public seen key to climate deal (Reuters) - Wider public unease about climate change and stronger economic growth are likely to be needed to revive sluggish U.N. talks after hopes for quick agreement on a treaty have fizzled, experts say. Many nations at U.N. talks in Bonn from June 6-17 seem resigned to a long haul -- more like arms reduction talks or U.N. trade negotiations -- after failure to agree a binding U.N. climate deal by an end-2009 deadline at a summit in Copenhagen. "Public awareness is really going to be the key," to spur a deal to avert heatwaves, droughts, floods and rising seas, said Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N. panel of climate scientists. He told the Reuters Global Energy and Climate Summit that he believed many people, including in the United States, were "gradually getting more concerned about the realities of climate change," partly because of extreme weather. In 2010, about 42 million people were displaced from their homes by natural disasters led by floods in China and Pakistan. Parts of the United States have been hit by the worst drought since the 1930s Dust ... + READ MORE |
World off course on climate; renewables vital (Reuters) - The world is off course in fighting climate change and governments need to boost green energies to build new momentum, the head of the U.N. panel of climate scientists said on Monday. Rajendra Pachauri said governments would face ever higher costs to slow global warming after new data showed greenhouse gas emissions rose to new highs in 2010. "We're not on the right track," he told the June 13-15 Reuters Energy and Climate Summit in a telephone interview, adding "we are far away from" a path of least cost in slowing global warming. The International Energy Agency said last month world emissions of carbon dioxide rose by 5.9 percent to a record high in 2010 as many economies rebounded from recession. Global warming could bring more floods, droughts, heatwaves and rising seas. Pachauri, an Indian citizen, said the outlook was not all gloom if governments designed policies to promote cleaner energies such as wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower. Stronger policies to promote a shift from fossil fuels "could bring about fairly rapid movement in the right direction ... ... + READ MORE |
New global carbon map for 2.5 billion ha of forests 2.5-billion-ha carbon map shows forests store 250B tons of carbon Forest carbon stock Tropical forests across Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia stored 247 gigatons of carbon — more than 30 years' worth of current emissions from fossil fuels use — in the early 2000s, according to a comprehensive assessment of the world's carbon stocks. The research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by an international team of scientists, used data from 4,079 plot sites around the world and satellite-based measurements to estimate that forests store 193 billion tons of carbon in their vegetation and 54 billion tons in their roots structure. The study has produced a carbon map for 2.5 billion ha (6.2 billion acres) of forests. According to the study, forests in Latin America account for 49 percent of the total carbon stock, followed by forests of Southeast Asia (26 percent), and Africa (25 percent). ... + READ MORE |
Non-Aligned Movement vital to battle against climate change, Ban says Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) of more than 100 countries to assist in “urgent global action” to combat the threat posed by climate change. He said climate change was one of three fields “in which joint action by the United Nations and the Non-Aligned Movement is essential.” The others were building a safer world, and fighting extreme poverty. In remarks to NAM’s 50th anniversary meeting in Bali, delivered by El-Mostafa Benlamlih, United Nations Resident Coordinator in Indonesia, Mr. Ban said that “the threat posed by climate change continues to require urgent global action.” The Secretary-General told ministers from the member countries of NAM that “governments must implement fully all the agreements made at Cancún, including on climate finance, protecting forests, adaptation, and technology.” In Cancún last December, at the 16th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), some 190 countries made commitments to formalize mitigation pledges and ensure increased accountability for them, as well as to take concrete action to tackle ... + READ MORE |
Nauru will use UN spotlight to confront developed world over climate change The smallest nation in the UN is about to take the AOSIS chair at a time when low-lying coastal countries are gravely threatened Last month I returned to Nauru, the smallest member of the United Nations and my home. The island is located in the Pacific Ocean close to the equator, about halfway between Hawaii and Australia. Our nearest neighbour is Banaba Island, 300 kilometres to the east. It is one of the most remote places in the world. I took the opportunity to talk to my community about some of the environmental changes taking place there, and it was a very troubling discussion. The sea around us is getting warmer, droughts have become commonplace, and the coastal erosion is as bad as anyone can remember. Similar trends are occurring across the Pacific and they have grave implications for the fish stocks we depend on for food, our freshwater supplies, and the very land we live ... + READ MORE |
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Forest & REDD
New global carbon map for 2.5 billion ha of forests2.5-billion-ha carbon map shows forests store 250B tons of carbon Forest carbon stock Tropical forests across Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia stored 247 gigatons of carbon — more than 30 years' worth of current emissions ... + READ MORE |
Is Indonesia’s Program to Stop Deforestation in Meltdown? Back in December, I wrote an article for Mother Jones about Indonesia's efforts to reduce its levels of deforestation and, by extension, its greenhouse gas emissions, which are the third highest in the world, trailing ... + READ MORE |
More Than 20 Years of Forest Carbon Yield Plenty of Lessons for InvestorsIt's more than two decades since a handful of environmental non-profits and green industrialists first began experimenting with mechanisms that slow global warming by funding the preservation of rainforests. In the ensuing decades, we've ... + READ MORE |
Palm oil giant vows to spare most valuable Indonesian rainforest Golden Agri-Resources – the world's second highest palm oil producer – bows to pressure from the west The world's second biggest palm oil company has agreed to halt deforestation in valuable areas of Indonesian forest, bowing to pressure ... + READ MORE |
Prince Charles: 'direct relationship' between ecosystems and the economy At an EU meeting in Brussels, dubbed the Low Carbon Prosperity Summit, the UK's Prince Charles made the case that without healthy ecosystems, the global economy will suffer. "We have to see that there ... + READ MORE |
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Poor will pay the price to cut carbon emissionsWhile Australians grapple with the idea of putting a price on carbon, in many developing countries the choice looks more like a trade-off between national development out of poverty a... + READ MORE |
World off course on climate; renewables vital(Reuters) - The world is off course in fighting climate change and governments need to boost green energies to build new momentum, the head of the U.N. panel of climate ... + READ MORE |
Non-Aligned Movement vital to battle against climate change, Ban saysSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) of more than 100 countries to assist in “urgent global action” to combat the threat posed by climate change. ... + READ MORE |
Nauru will use UN spotlight to confront developed world over climate changeThe smallest nation in the UN is about to take the AOSIS chair at a time when low-lying coastal countries are gravely threatened Last month I returned to Nauru, ... + READ MORE |
Japan wants new CO2 offset scheme to complement U.N. (Reuters) - Japan's idea for a new carbon offset scheme would complement an existing U.N. mechanism and make it easier for developing countries to access ... + READ MORE |
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