Check on displacement of adivasis

This paper assesses the complex interplay between global Renewable Energy Directives (RED) and the United Nations programme to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD). We examine the interaction of the two policies using a ...

A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the opening of the 10th Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests, in Istanbul, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's impassioned challenge to the global community to get serious about ...

UNITED NATIONS, May 10 (Xinhua) -- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is scheduled to host an international conference in Rome, Italy, next week to highlight the vital contribution of forests to food security and nutrition, UN officials ...

As fire season bears down, political leaders gathered in Denver this week urge additional action on wildfires. While it's true that strategic fuel treatments and preparing forest communities for inevitable fire would benefit from funding, there is ...

DELEGATES from more than 160 countries have agreed on a set of climate change policy measures as part of an ongoing United Nations-led effort to create a new, universal climate accord by 2015 to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees ...

By - THE Zambia National Forest Conservation Organisation has called on Government to quickly restructure the Forestry Department following the lifting of the ban on timber. Executive director Green Siame said in a statement in Lusaka at the weekend ...

its decision to cut the interest rate on its main refinancing operations by 25 basis points to 0.50%, and the rate on its marginal lending facility by 50 basis points to 1%. These moves could have a positive impact on the economy under normal ...

The FINANCIAL -- National conservation organization American Forests announced that it has received a $250,000 grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation to conduct urban forest assessments in five U.S. cities over the next six months. The ...

Place is a huge factor in the life of this interpreter on the world's largest temperate rainforest - the Tongass National Forest in Alaska. Born in California, raised in the country-country parts of Texas, educated at two colleges in a Midwestern ...