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Climate Change: Financing Global Forests new editor's pick

http://www.occ.gov.uk/activities/eliasch/Full_report_eliasch_review(1).pdf

a report prepared by Johan Eliasch for the Prime Minister (UK) that provides a comprehensive analysis of international financing to reduce forest loss and its associated impacts on climate change (pdf)

Added: Nov. 15, 2008 | Rate It

Climate Geo-engineering with 'carbon negative' bioenergy - climate saviour or climate endgame? new editor's pick

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/cnbe/cnbe.html

a critical analysis of proposals to use biochar (agrichar) and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage proposals to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and mitigating climate change that depend upon forests (pdf)

Added: Nov. 26, 2008 | Rate It

Moving Ahead with REDD new editor's pick

http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/publications/pdf_files/Books/BAngelsen0801.pdf

online book exploring issues associated with the complex process of implementing Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) (pdf)

Added: Dec. 19, 2008 | Rate It

Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance, The editor's pick popular

http://www.climate-standards.org/

3 out of 10 stars (5 votes)

developing and promoting a set of rigorous standards for evaluating climate, community and biodiversity impacts of land-based carbon projects

Added: Jun. 21, 2004 | Rate It

Tropical Deforestation and Climate Change editor's pick popular

http://www.edf.org/documents/4930_TropicalDeforestation_and_ClimateChange.pdf

8 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

provides scientific perspectives on tropical deforestation and climate change, and a discussion of compensation payments made via the carbon market to reduce deforestation rates, by the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research, together with Environmental Defense

Added: Jun. 24, 2006 | Rate It

Woods Hole Research Center editor's pick popular

http://www.whrc.org/whrc.htm

7 out of 10 stars (3 votes)

studies forest ecology to demonstrate its value to local populations who are in a position to foster forest sustainability

Added: Jul. 03, 2001 | Rate It

Biofuelwatch editor's pick

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/

7 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

campaigns for regulation to ensure that only sustainably-sourced biofuels can be sold in the European Union, provides information about the link between biofuels and deforestation and other threats to biodiversity and food supplies.

Added: Jun. 24, 2006 | Rate It

Forests Now editor's pick

http://www.forestsnow.org/

a declaration calling on world governments to take urgent action on deforestation in the tropics and sub-tropics; such deforestation causes 18-25% of global carbon emissions, which is more than the world’s entire transport industry

Added: Sep. 24, 2007 | Rate It

Palm Oil Action editor's pick

http://www.palmoilaction.org.au/

concerned with oil palm plantation development and deforestation in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea

Added: Sep. 24, 2007 | Rate It

REDD-Monitor editor's pick updated

http://www.redd-monitor.org/

provides analysis, opinions, news and views about Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) whereby carbon markets promote forest protection

Added: Oct. 28, 2008 | Rate It

Rush to Biofuels, The -- Not All Biofuels Are Created Equal editor's pick

http://www.newenergychoices.org/uploads/RushToEthanol-bro.pdf

analysis and recommendations for U.S. biofuels policy; concluding that biofuels are not the silver bullet solution that some say they will be (pdf)

Added: Jul. 20, 2007 | Rate It

South-East Asia's Peat Fires and Global Warming editor's pick

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/peatfiresbackground.pdf

Biofuelwatch presents a fully referenced background piece regarding the seriousness of the destruction of Indonesia's peat forests for the global climate (pdf)

Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Climate and Deforestation new

http://www.foei.org/en/publications/pdfs/redd-myths

a critical review, by Friends of the Earth, of proposed mechanisms for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) in developing countries (pdf)

Added: Dec. 14, 2008 | Rate It

Cutting Corners new

http://www.fern.org/media/documents/document_4312_4313.pdf

this report by Forests and the European Resource Network (FERN) assesses the effectiveness of country plans for reducing deforestation and how these plans meet the needs of indigenous peoples (pdf)

Added: Dec. 19, 2008 | Rate It

Voluntary Carbon Standard - Guidance for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use Projects new

http://www.v-c-s.org/docs/AFOLU%20Guidance%20Document.pdf

a report that identifies the latest solutions for mitigating the impacts of land use practices on climate change and that provides best-practice guidance for project activities (pdf)

Added: Nov. 26, 2008 | Rate It

Forests Absorbing Carbon dioxide Emission - Face Foundation popular

http://www.facefoundation.nl/Eng/introFaceE.html

9 out of 10 stars (1 vote)

funds the planting and maintenance of forests in order to curb the greenhouse effect

Added: Jul. 03, 2001 | Rate It

Global Roundtable on Climate Change popular

http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/grocc/

4 out of 10 stars (5 votes)

a stakeholder forum of leaders from industry, governments and NGOs, set up to discuss and explore areas of potential consensus regarding core scientific, technological, and economic issues critical to shaping sound public policies on climate change

Added: Mar. 08, 2007 | Rate It

Assesment of CO2 emissions from drained peatlands in South-East Asia

http://www.wetlands.org/WatchRead/Booksandreports/tabid/1261/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1382/Peatland-degradation-fuels-climate-change.aspx

a report that calculates CO2 emissions from peat oxidation and peat fires in South East Asia and investigates the causes, likely future trends and options for mitigation strategies; by Delft Hydraulics in cooperation with Wetlands International and Alterra

Added: Jan. 04, 2007 | Rate It

Avoided Deforestation Partners.org

http://www.adpartners.org/

10 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

works to harness market forces toward halting tropical deforestation through innovative public and private sector partnerships

Added: Feb. 08, 2008 | Rate It

Biofuels threaten to accelerate global warming

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/biofuels-accelerate-climate-change.pdf

report by Biofuelwatch about the climate impacts of large-scale biofuel production

Added: Jun. 22, 2007 | Rate It

Clouds on the Horizon: The Congo Basin's Forests and Climate Change

http://www.rainforestfoundationuk.org/files/Global%20Warming%20Low%20PDF.pdf

a report by the Rainforest Foundation UK about emissions from deforestation in the Congo Basin, and the likely impact of increased logging and land conversion in the future (pdf)

Added: Apr. 01, 2008 | Rate It

Cool Earth

http://www.coolearth.org/

8 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

works to control carbon emissions and halt climate change by tackling tropical deforestation, purchasing rainforests for their carbon ecosystem services

Added: Oct. 10, 2006 | Rate It

Deforestation, Forest Degradation, Biodiversity Loss and CO2 Emissionsin Riau, Sumatra, Indonesia

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Environment/documents/2008/02/26/riaureport.pdf

report documents deforestation and degradation of natural forests in a section of Sumatra, Indonesia, and its impacts upon carbon release and climate change (pdf)

Added: Mar. 03, 2008 | Rate It

Generating Carbon Finance by Maintaining Forest Benefits

http://journals.royalsociety.org/content/kq13503333tqvk62/fulltext.pdf

scientific journal article suggesting that trading credits for reducing emissions from deforestation is economically feasible (pdf)