deforestation
According to Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), the recent torrential rains and flooding in the country’s north have killed over 200 people in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Gilgit-Baltistan. These mountainous parts of the country have numerous roads blocked due to...
In Borneo, an island shared by Indonesia and Malaysia, some of the world’s oldest tropical forests are being cut down and replaced with oil palm plantations at a breakneck pace. Wiping forests high in biodiversity off the land for monoculture plantations causes numerous environmental...
- Autores: Laura Caceres y Sandra Cuadros
- Editado por: Wendy Francesconi
Luego de cinco meses en Ucayali donde el sol es abrasador y las lluvias intensas, fuimos espectadores de los cambios que se están generando en este paisaje. Poco a poco la manta...
La lucha contra la deforestación y otras medidas de mitigación del cambio climático serán uno de los elementos clave de la agenda de la Conferencia de las Partes en la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático, a celebrarse en diciembre en Lima, Perú (COP 20...
It remains unclear whether any agreement struck during the upcoming U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change session, which begins in Paris at the end of this...
by Nele Schmitz
“What would happen if we cut all trees?”. Deforestation is always presented as a big drama, while plantation actions get all cheers. We know forests are important for a whole list of things. If all trees would be cut,...
Colombia is among the world’s top cattle-producing countries, with more than 23 million head of beef and dairy cattle occupying approximately 38 percent of the total land area. It is challenging to clearly correlate deforestation with specific agricultural commodities in Colombia, but...
This report shows that if current trends continue, up to 170 million hectares of forest could be lost between 2010 and 2030 in these 11 deforestation fronts, 10 of which are in the tropics. The fronts are located in the Amazon, the Atlantic Forest and Gran Chaco, Borneo, the Cerrado,...
Here some recent publications :
✓ Implementing Deforestation-Free Supply Chains – Certification and Beyond
http://goo.gl/MK3tlx
SNV’s REDD+ Energy and Agriculture Programme (REAP) published a...