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Forests Now Basics - Q&A

Why Forests Now?
Deforestation is responsible for about 20% of all carbon emissions, more than the entire global transport sector. Mitigation must continue across all sectors, including additional limits on industrial emissions, but efforts to meet vital reduction targets by 2030 will be negated unless we tackle emissions from forests now.... [More]

What is the countdown to Copenhagen?
At the United Nations Climate Conference in Bali in December 2007 (COP 13), an international framework to pay for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) was given a tentative go-ahead. Final agreement must be reached by December 2009, when negotiators meet in Copenhagen (COP 15) to finalise a new international climate deal to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.... [More]

Forests Now website and you
This website is focused on forests and climate change, and on the countdown to the key UN climate meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009. It is a resource not only for Forests Now endorsers but for the wider global community working to protect tropical forests. Its main aim is to offer tools which facilitate communication and collaboration amongst that community....[More]

THIS MONTH'S GUEST EDITORIAL:
The arithmetic of climate change: Local and global realities
by Ralph Ashton, pulished at Jakarta Post

News

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November 10th 2009
Norway offers Guyana up to $250mln to save forests
Reuters

November 10th 2009
Environmentalists Criticize Eni's African Oil Sands Project
The Wall Street Journal

November 10th 2009
Elinor Ostrom and REDD
The Jakarta Post

November 4th 2009
Using forests to finance conservation and communities in a former war zone: Colombia's Choco
Mongabay

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		Brazil’s Juma Sustainable Development Reserve Project for REDD Implementation Brazil’s Juma Sustainable Development Reserve Project is a pioneering project involving Avoided Deforestation and private investments, and an important test of REDD mechanisms.

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Nobel Laureate Professor Wangari Maathai and the Forests Now Declaration

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