There is increasingly vocal resistance by representatives of local communities and indigenous peoples to REDD. What was seen at Copenhagen as an...

I must apologize. I seem to have given the impression that the Cancun talks started on Monday. My mistake; at least as far as REDD+ is concerned the...

I’m on my way to Cancun. Cancun, COP 16, the shy, retiring younger sister of the anticlimactic Copenhagen, COP 15 meeting last year. This is my first...

Who remembers the ‘Danish text’ from Copenhagen? A (deliberately?) clumsy release of an unfinished document that poisoned the COP15 atmosphere from...

We have agreement. No need to get excited, unfortunately. This agreement concerns the appalling logistics at the Cancun conference, which may well...

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...

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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As the UN flounders, climate change keeps coming. Jeff Rutherford of Fair Earth Consulting and InterNews calls for journalists to recognize the...