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Thursday, March 8th, 2012

Lessons from UN-REDD in Vietnam

UN-REDD Programme Viet Nam is developing two reports, the evaluation report for effectiveness of awareness raising and training, and lesson learned report from activities in particular areas such as Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), Benefits Distribution...

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Scientists Create High Resolution, 3D Maps of Forests in Madagascar

A team of scientists has created the first high resolution maps of remote forests in Madagascar. The effort, which is written up in the journal Carbon Balance and Management, will help more accurately register the amount of carbon...

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Paper: Mainstreaming Pakistan for REDD+: The Way Forward to Readiness Phase”

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has provided a platform to the international community to negotiate and take measures for climate change mitigation. REDD+ is emerged as an incentive based mitigation mechanism to address the...

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

RapidEye’s New REDD Satellite Coverage Page

Offering the largest collection capacities and the quickest return time to any place on earth, the RapidEye constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites is extremely well suited to image countries involved in the REDD and REDD+...

Monday, December 5th, 2011

Maximizing the Co-benefits of REDD-Plus Actions

Organised together with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) of the Philippines and with assistance from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, the workshop provided a forum for experts involved in ICI projects...

Friday, November 18th, 2011

Stakeholders Incentives for REDD and Deforestation and Governance Survey

The opportunity costs of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) accruing to different stakeholders in Indonesia, including companies and the national, provincial and district level governments, are estimated, with particular emphasis on the influence of alternative...

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Clark Labs Hosts Two New Videos on Website

Clark Labs of Clark University is pleased to announce that two new tutorials have been added to the video series on its website. Both videos highlight functionality within the IDRISI software's modeling applications: Land Change Modeler and...

Tuesday, June 28th, 2011

Report – Forestry Investments in Emerging Markets

Between 17-19 May 2011, about 50 participants, such as institutional investors, investment advisors, timber funds, forest business developers, and forestry specialists - attended the meeting "Forestry Investments in Emerging Markets" organised by FAO, the NFP Facility and...

Tuesday, May 31st, 2011

Cambodia and Laos’ Aruna Technology Joins RapidEye’s Network

RapidEye announced today that Cambodia and Laos-based Aruna Technology is now part of its growing
distribution network. As part of the agreement, Aruna's territory will be Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar. John Ahlrichs, Vice President of Distributor Sales at...