International Carbon Markets Expanding but Still Contentious
Nascent carbon emissions-trading exchanges in several countries are increasingly looking at options to interlink with one another, which advocates say would offer investors long-term stability,...
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Critics Slam California “Forest Offset” Plan
Cutting trees in Nicaragua. Deforestation is inherent to the predatory economy, whether for the exploitation of the timber itself, the soil beneath the trees, or resources in the subsoil. Credit:...
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Forestry Programmes Bogged Down in Latin America
Forest in Sierra de Manantlán biosphere reserve in western Mexico.Credit: Comisión Nacional de Áreas ProtegidasIssues related to the ownership of forest carbon and to prior consultation mechanisms...
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REDD a ‘False Solution’ for Africa
Uganda’s Mabira Forest Reserve is about 30,000 hectares but is at risk from deforestation. In 2011 the government announced that it allocated some 7,1000 hectares to sugar plantations. Credit: Isaiah...
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First Steps to Save Burkina Faso’s Forests
Land degradation in Burkina Faso. The country’s forests are under pressure from the expansion of farming areas. Courtesy: Burkina Faso Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development Burkina Faso...
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Cameroonians See REDD
The Menchum Falls in Cameroon could be a great opportunity for REDD and ecotourism says Joseph Amougou, from the National REDD Coordination in the Ministry of Environment and Nature Protection and...
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Forest Communities Draw a REDD Line
Michael Kusolo and his wife Mary lost all their four children in landslides that occurred in 2012 on the steep slopes of Mount Elgon in eastern Uganda’s Bududa District. Experts say that it is...
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Plantations Winnow Tigers Down to the Hundreds
Credit: Sascha Kohlmann/CC BY-SA 2.0 By Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Oct 22 2013 (IPS) The tiger population in the rainforests of Sumatra is vanishing at a staggering rate, reducing the number of the...
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Mining Takes a Bite Out of Guyana’s Amazon
Guyana has 12.2 million hectares of state forest. Credit: Desmond Brown/IPSBy Desmond BrownGEORGETOWN, Nov 11 2013 (IPS) Guyana is engaged in a balancing act to save its rainforest, regarded as a...
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South Scores 11th-Hour Win on Climate Loss and Damage
COP19 delegates huddle to resolve the issue of loss and damage. Credit: Courtesy of ENBBy Stephen LeahyWARSAW, Nov 24 2013 (IPS) The U.N. climate talks in Warsaw ended in dramatic fashion Saturday...
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Carbon-Cutting Initiative May Harm Indigenous Communities
U.S. Native American leader Tom Goldtooth. Credit: Franz Chávez/IPSBy Bryant HarrisWASHINGTON, Mar 20 2014 (IPS) Civil society and advocacy groups are warning that a prominent carbon-reduction...
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Mexico’s Climate Laws Ignore Women
The Ajusco forest, one of Mexico City’s green lungs and water sources. Credit: Emilio Godoy/IPS By Emilio GodoyMEXICO CITY, May 8 2014 (IPS) The rural communities of San Miguel and Santo Tomás Ajusco,...
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Wary of Climate Change, Indonesia Looks to Lawmakers for Solutions
Logs stacked in Riau, Sumatra, which has one of Indonesia’s highest rates of deforestation. Credit: Sandra Siagian/IPSBy Sandra SiagianJAKARTA, May 27 2014 (IPS) Comprised of over 17,000 islands that...
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Mexico Underlines Transformation in Global Climate Change Debate
In this column, Alejandro Encinas, Senator in the Mexican Congress and International Vice President for the Americas of the Global Legislators Organisation (GLOBE), looks at the progress on climate...
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Latin America’s Forests Need Laws – and Much More
A Jun. 7 session of the second GLOBE Summit of World Legislators in the Mexican Congress. Nearly 500 legislators from some 90 countries took part in the gathering in Mexico City. Credit: Emilio...
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Forest Rights Offer Major Opportunity to Counter Climate Change
Salvadorans Elsy Álvarez and María Menjivar – with her young daughter – planning plantain seedlings in a clearing in the forest. Credit: Claudia Ávalos/IPSBy Carey L. BironWASHINGTON, Jul 24 2014...
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OPINION: Addressing Climate Change Requires Real Solutions, Not Blind Faith...
“The darker side of green” – plantation at Bukaleba, Uganda. Credit: Kristen LyonsBy Kristen LyonsBRISBANE, Dec 8 2014 (IPS)Norwegians know something of life in a climate change world. Migratory birds...
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Small Victories at Bonn Climate Talks
High Level Youth Briefing on June 11, 2015 with the UNFCCC Executive Secretary, Christina Figueres. Credit: UNClimateChange/cc by 3.0By Kitty StappUNITED NATIONS, Jun 11 2015 (IPS)As climate talks wind...
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Zimbabwe’s Climate Change Ambitions May be Too Tall
These Zimbabwean farmers with their harvested sorghum are at the mercy of climate change, while the government struggles with meagre financing and tall ambitions to take adequate action. Credit:...
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Zimbabwe’s Forest Carbon Programme Not All It Seems
Rain forest in Zimbabwe, where the politics of access and control over forests and their carbon is challenging conventional understanding, and comes down to the question of land and whether local rural...
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