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...

Certainly, many things about REDD are new; challenges, technicalities and opportunities alike, all of which need to be well-understood. But what...

The growing prominence of REDD in the negotiations has made CIFOR’s annual Forest Day an increasingly important draw for negotiators and assorted...

The recently released draft REDD+ text is full of holes where binding safeguards and targets for deforestation reductions used to be. Later today,...

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...

The revised REDD text anticipated Saturday evening has not yet been released. It is expected, in fact more or less required, that the text will be...

Reuters – Forest communities said key to climate fight Reporting from CIFOR’s Forest Day 3, officials and academics agree that safeguards to protect...

There’s a get together for negotiators at the middle weekend of each COP known as the NGO party. I ran into Tony La Vina, chair of the REDD text...

One of the first things you notice here at the Bella Center is the large number of young people that have made their way to the negotiations from...