Home > Causes > Deforestation and Land-Use Changes

Climate Ark: Deforestation and Land-Use Changes Links (XML/RSS)

Links

Biofuelwatch editor's pick popular

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

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

Forests Now editor's pick popular

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

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

Biochar for Climate Change Mitigation: Fact or Fiction editor's pick

http://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/docs/biocharbriefing.pdf

4 out of 10 stars (2 votes)

briefing paper regarding proposals for using biochar for climate change mitigation and the serious concerns about its likely impacts on climate, soil fertility and communities (pdf)

Added: Feb. 19, 2009 | Rate It

Climate Change: Financing Global Forests 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? 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

Ecosystems Climate Alliance editor's pick

http://www.ecosystemsclimate.org/

an association of environment and social NGOs committed to keeping natural terrestrial ecosystems intact and their carbon out of the atmosphere in ways that respect the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities

Added: Jun. 20, 2009 | Rate It

Environment Outlook in Amazonia editor's pick

http://www.unep.org/pdf/GEOAMAZONIA.pdf

report provides a complete and integrated assessment of the globally significant ecosystem of the Amazon Basin (pdf)

Added: Mar. 09, 2009 | Rate It

Moving Ahead with REDD 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

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

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

UN-REDD Programme Fund editor's pick

http://www.undp.org/mdtf/un-redd/overview.shtml

a United Nations program that provides funding for activities that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries

Added: Aug. 04, 2009 | Rate It

Vested Interests - Industrial Logging and Carbon in Tropical Fprests editor's pick

http://www.globalwitness.org/media_library_get.php/921/1245253952/carbon_report.pdf

a report by Global Witness that discusses the carbon sequestration ability of natural rainforests with that of selectively logged forests (pdf)

Added: Jun. 20, 2009 | Rate It

REDD Site, The new

http://thereddsite.wordpress.com/

a blog that focuses on the ongoing development of an international REDD (Reducing greenhouse gas Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) mechanism and its implications for indigenous peoples, as well as highlighting REDD projects and resources relevant to their particular needs

Added: Feb. 28, 2010 | 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.grocc.ei.columbia.edu/

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

Project POTICO: Palm Oil, Timber & Carbon Offsets in Indonesia

http://www.wri.org/project/potico

WRI project in Indonesia to curb new oil palm plantations from clearing virgin or primary forests by developing diversified revenue streams

Added: Feb. 11, 2009 | 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