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Who remembers the ‘Danish text’ from Copenhagen? A (deliberately?) clumsy release of an unfinished document that poisoned the COP15 atmosphere from...
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We have agreement. No need to get excited, unfortunately. This agreement concerns the appalling logistics at the Cancun conference, which may well...
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Copenhagen wasn’t the end. Another year, another COP. But what a contrast. Compared to the hype and hope of last year’s event, the build-up to Cancun...
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Rumors of the demise of the REDD+ partnership were clearly exaggerated (see previous posts). The meeting in Nagoya, on the fringes of the CBD, did...
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Like the commentary and updates on RECOFTC's Tianjin blog? Then check out our October People and Forests e-Newsletter for the latest international...
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As the UN flounders, climate change keeps coming. Jeff Rutherford of Fair Earth Consulting and InterNews calls for journalists to recognize the...
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So we move on again. For the REDD+ partnership, the next stop was to be Nagoya, where the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will meet for its...
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Do we have a ‘Plan B’? With that one question, a delegate who attended the ADB and RECOFTC side event on REDD+ national strategies vocalized what...
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I attended my first REDD+ partnership meeting last night (Monday). I can now officially report that it is indeed as dysfunctional as I’ve heard, and...