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11-Jun-2010
BONN, Germany – While only one meeting on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) was held at the UN climate talks which end here today, numerous discussions on a parallel initiative outside the UN framework occurred behind closed doors, warned forest and climate experts from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance today.
11-Jun-2010
Bonn Climate Change Negotiations, 11 June 2010
08-Jun-2010
BONN, Germany – Rich developed countries are attempting to cheat on accounting for their carbon emissions from logging and will only agree to ambitious overall greenhouse gas reduction targets if they get the forestry loopholes they demand, warned the Ecosystems Climate Alliance today.
01-Jun-2010
BONN, Germany – As talks resume here today toward a new global deal to prevent catastrophic climate change, negotiators will be seeking a way forward on the challenge of reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD).
31-May-2010
BONN, Germany – As climate change negotiations resume here this week, a coalition of environmental campaigners has called on the UN’s scientific and technological advisory body(1) to create a new forest definition that differentiates natural forests from plantations. This is needed to prevent global efforts to protect forests and the climate from being undermined, according to the Ecosystems Climate Alliance (ECA).
26-May-2010
Logging loophole in developed countries could be finalized at climate talks in Bonn
Progress towards a meaningful climate deal in 2010 could be significantly undermined if developed countries succeed in their bid to avoid accountability for their emissions from forestry and bioenergy use, according to forest and climate experts from the Ecosystems Climate Alliance (ECA).
24-Feb-2010
Environment ministers from more than 100 countries meeting this week in Bali must oppose initiatives from Indonesia and the EU to reclassify oil palm plantations as forests.
18-Dec-2009
Forests in Both Developed and Developing Countries Remain At Risk, Talks Pushed to 2010.
17-Dec-2009
Agreement on REDD Remains Uncertain; Targets and Baselines Undecided
16-Dec-2009
Funding and targets absent as REDD text moves to ministerial level