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Managing Deforestation Through Policy and Monitoring

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Richard Matthews | 0 Comments

When combined with the right policies, new monitoring capabilities may significantly enhance our capacity to manage forests. As an homage to the International Day of Forests on March 21, here is a review of forest management policy recommendations and new global monitoring solutions. After a United Nations General Assembly resolution in 2012, the International Day of Forests was observed for…

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COP15 Primer (part 4): Stemming Global Deforestation Emissions

Posted on December 9, 2009 by Jake Schmidt | 0 Comments

There was an extensive debate in the lead-in to the Kyoto Protocol (and after) about whether incentives for reducing deforestation would be recognized as a part of the agreement.  For a number of reasons countries didn’t agree to include deforestation incentives, but did agree to allow increased forest cover to count.  Unfortunately a lot of the world’s forests were lost…

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EarthTalk: Rainforest Destruction and Enertia Houses

Posted on October 12, 2009 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

EarthTalk® is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Pinning down exact numbers is nearly impossible, but most experts agree that we are losing upwards of 80,000 acres of tropical rainforest daily, and significantly degrading another 80,000 acres every day on top of that. Along with this loss and degradation, we…

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