Stories of Change
The very latest REDD draft has been released, where heads of government will make the final decisions about the fate of the remaining bracketed text....
Stories of Change
I started writing this blog yesterday afternoon (Tuesday), on the flight back to Bangkok. A powdery snow began to fall as we took off, the first. As...
Stories of Change
As IPCC chair Rajendra Pachauri declared at Forest Day 3 last Sunday, the forestry sector “has yielded too much space to other sectors” in...
Stories of Change
Negotiations on REDD ran into some trouble between the hours of 11:00 pm and 3:00 am Monday night, with the result that what was a three page...
Stories of Change
On my long wet, walk in from the metro this morning (the Bella Centre Station itself has been closed due to "crowd control") I was fortunate to bump...
Stories of Change
Certainly, many things about REDD are new; challenges, technicalities and opportunities alike, all of which need to be well-understood. But what...
Stories of Change
The growing prominence of REDD in the negotiations has made CIFOR’s annual Forest Day an increasingly important draw for negotiators and assorted...
Stories of Change
The recently released draft REDD+ text is full of holes where binding safeguards and targets for deforestation reductions used to be. Later today,...
Stories of Change
Forest Day 3, a now annual event hosted by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) at every COP since Bali in 2007, opened Sunday with...