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Tropical forests were the primary sources of new agricultural land in the 1980s and 1990s
Global demand for agricultural products such as food, feed, and fuel is now a major driver of cropland ... |
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, US (H. K. Gibbs, A. S. Ruesch, F. Achard, M. K. Clayton, P. Holmgren, N. Ramankutty, and J. A. Foley) |
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| 01/01/2010 |
Chainsaw Milling in Ghana: Context, Drivers and Impacts
In spite of being banned in 1998, chainsaw milling continues to be a major supplier of Ghana’s ... |
CSIR FORIG / Tropenbos International (Emmanuel Marfo) |
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| 02/12/2009 |
Putting the Brakes on Drivers of Forest Destruction: A Shared Responsibility.
The authors of this briefing, published ahead of the Copenhagen climate talks, believe that rising demand ... |
Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) |
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| 27/10/2009 |
Report of Informal Working Group in Interim Finance for REDD+
Discussion document published by the Informal Working Group in Interim Finance for REDD+ established ... |
Informal Working Group in Interim Finance for REDD+ |
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| 27/10/2009 |
Government's response to Environmental Audit Committee report on 'Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation: No hope without forests'
The Environmental Audit Committee of the House of Commons published its report on 'Reducing greenhouse ... |
UK government |
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| 01/06/2009 |
Slaughtering the Amazon
The authors claim that the cattle sector in the Brazilian Amazon is the largest driver of deforestation ... |
Greenpeace |
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| 15/10/2008 |
REDD and forest governance
Submission to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee inquiry into 'Forests: the future ... |
Chatham House (Thomas Legge, Alison Hoare and Jade Saunders) |
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| 15/08/2008 |
Estimating the cost of building capacity in rainforest nations to allow them to participate in a global REDD mechanism
This report provides an estimation of the funds that will be needed to build capacity in 25 rainforest ... |
Chatham House and ProForest (Alison Hoare, Thomas Legge, Ruth Nussbaum & Jade Saunders) |
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| 01/06/2008 |
The Roles and Movements of Actors in the Deforestation of Brazilian Amazonia
Containing the advance of deforestation in Brazilian Amazonia requires understanding the roles and movements ... |
Fearnside, Philip M. (for Ecology and Society) |
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| 31/03/2008 |
Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation: Lessons from a forest governance perspective
Outlines experiences from existing efforts aimed at improving forest governance which should be considered ... |
ProForest, Chatham House, EcoSecurities (Ruth Nussbaum, Jade Saunders, Johannes Ebeling) |
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| 01/01/2008 |
Forest Governance and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD)
This is a revised version of the paper ... |
Chatham House and ProForest (Jade Saunders and Ruth Nussbaum) |
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| 01/12/2007 |
Protecting the future: carbon, forests, protected areas and local livelihoods
Summary document looking at current proposals on reducing emissions from deforestation in developing ... |
United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) |
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| 22/05/2006 |
Analysis of Myths and Realities of Deforestation in Northwest Pakistan: Implications for Forestry Extension
Pakistan has a very high deforestation rate. The remaining forests are very diverse in nature and of ... |
Ali, Tanvir; Shahbaz, Babar & Suleri, Abid |
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| 31/12/2002 |
The Underlying Causes of Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Pakistan
This paper is based on the findings of a workshop held in December 2002 to identify the underlying causes ... |
Saaed, Asif (for the FAO) |
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| 01/01/2001 |
Extent and Causes of Illegal Logging: An Analysis of a Major Cause of Tropical Deforestation in Indonesia
A working paper considering the activity of illegal loggers as the principal cause of recent high rates ... |
CSERGE (Charles Palmer) |
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| 02/09/2010 |
80% of tropical agricultural expansion between 1980-2000 came at expense of forests
More than 80 percent of agricultural expansion in the tropics between 1980 and 2000 came at the expense ... |
Mongabay.com |
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| 16/08/2010 |
Climate change expert urges a rethink of forest futures
The earth could be in the mists of the single biggest extinction period since the dinosaurs, according ... |
Charles Darwin University, Australia |
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| 03/08/2010 |
Model shows 'waves of forest degradation'
An international team of researchers has developed a model that suggests degradation of tropical forests ... |
BBC News |
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| 29/03/2010 |
Population density corresponds with forest loss in the Congo Basin
Africa's greatest rainforest ecosystem, the Congo Basin, has undergone significant deforestation ... |
Mongabay.com |
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| 07/02/2010 |
Commodity trade and urbanization, rather than rural poverty, drive deforestation
Forest conservation via REDD may be ineffective without addressing commodity consumption and trade, argues ... |
Mongabay.com |
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| 27/12/2009 |
Rainforest conservation: a year in review
2009 may prove to be an important turning point for tropical forests. ... |
Mongabay.com |
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| 18/12/2009 |
Can climate action resuscitate tropical forests?
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WRI |
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| 09/12/2009 |
Changing drivers of deforestation provide new opportunities for conservation
Tropical deforestation claimed roughly 13 million hectares of forest per year during the first half of ... |
Mongabay.com |
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| 07/12/2009 |
Copenhagen: Felling the Amazon rainforest could end within a decade
Amazonia has become synonymous with the destruction of the world’s rainforests, but the Copenhagen ... |
Telegraph, UK |
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| 02/12/2009 |
In absence of measures to address consumption, REDD may fail to protect forests
Rising demand for timber and agricultural products could work against a proposed initiative to reduce ... |
Mongabay.com |
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| 22/09/2009 |
Can Nike and Wal-Mart save the Amazon?
An ambitious commitment by some of the world's largest companies not to buy beef or leather products ... |
The Christian Science Monitor |
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| 18/08/2009 |
Forests and businesses: uneasy bedfellows
Windhoek - Too few businesses use appropriate industry-led approaches to tackle the threat of wholesale ... |
New Era, Namibia |
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| 23/07/2009 |
The need to check deforestation in West Africa
Achieving long-term development in West Africa requires much more than just exploiting the region's ... |
Business Day, Nigeria |
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| 09/07/2009 |
G8 leaders declare support for REDD forest conservation initiative
A declaration issued by political leaders meeting at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, included ... |
Mongabay.com |
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| 02/07/2009 |
Carbon markets won't save the rainforest - we must tackle the route causes of deforestation
Responding to the launch of the [UK] Environmental Audit Committee's report on how to stop emissions ... |
7th Space Interactive |
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| 14/06/2009 |
Climate pact must halt deforestation and industrial logging of old-growth forests, exclude carbon credits for forest conservation, say activists
A global framework on climate change must immediately halt deforestation and industrial logging of the ... |
Mongabay.com |
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| 04/03/2009 |
Amazon deforestation drops 70% for Nov 2008-Jan 2009 period
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell to 291 square miles (754 square kilometers) in the November ... |
Mongabay.com |
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| 22/04/2008 |
International Deforestation and Climate Change: Statement for the record by US Assistant Administrator for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade
(USAID Press Release) How the US government and US Agency for International Development (USAID) work ... |
USAID (USA) |
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| 09/02/2008 |
Growing money on trees
Tropical forests store enormous amounts of carbon and its release, through deforestation, accounts for ... |
Green Left Weekly (Australia) |
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| 22/09/2007 |
Community logging may address deforestation
Indonesia is the third biggest contributor to global warming after the United States and China, adding ... |
The Jakarta Post (Indonesia) |
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