Áreas protegidas
Protected Areas as Solutions for Climate Change
Protected area systems provide powerful tools to combat climate change; with commitment and planning they could do even more in the future. This story is shared with CEC by Nigel Dudley and Trevor Sandwith of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas. …
16 Oct 2009 | News story
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Forest governance and climate policies
Fred Stolle of the World Resources Institute looks at the need for REDD to address forest governance issues as well as creating market incentives. …
01 Oct 2009 | News story
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Getting REDD right for forest people
Mark Poffenberger of Community Forestry International calls for the climate mitigation negotiations to take account of the rights and concerns of forest dependent people. …
01 Oct 2009 | News story
REDD: putting women at risk or providing opportunities?
Jeannette Gurung of WOCAN highlights some of the gender differentiated impacts of REDD.
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01 Oct 2009 | News story
REDD-plus: will the ‘broad bridge’ hold up under the strain?
Consuelo Espinosa Proaño of IUCN calls for a broadbased approach to forestbased mitigation as a bridging mechanism towards a lowcarbon economy. …
01 Oct 2009 | News story
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Will REDD make a difference?
Arild Angelsen of the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and CIFOR gives a ‘cynical optimist’s’ view on whether REDD will work. …
01 Oct 2009 | News story
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Forests, people and climate change: the REDD solution
Major reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions are necessary if we are to avoid disastrous climate change. Given that deforestation and forest degradation account for up to 17% of man-made global greenhouse gas emissions, conservation and sustainable management of forests is a good place to start. …
01 Oct 2009 | News story
Expertos en medio ambiente con sólo tocar un botón
Ya está disponible en Internet un Directorio de Expertos en Servicios del Ecosistema gratuito. Periodistas, líderes empresariales y gobiernos pueden utilizar el directorio para buscar cientos de expertos en medio ambiente de organizaciones como la UICN, la Sociedad Ecológica Americana y los grupos de trabajo de la Evaluación de Ecosistemas del Milenio. … | English | French
15 Sep 2009 | News story
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Protected Areas: facing the challenges
An IUCN-led workshop on the future of the CBD Programme of work on Protected Areas, started today in Jeju Island, South Korea. The workshop will focus on ways to address the new challenges to protected areas, including climate change. …
14 Sep 2009 | News story
IUCN welcomes France’s significant scale-up of marine protected areas
France has significantly boosted progress towards improved protection of the marine environment. President Sarkozy speaking recently in Le Havre announced the creation of marine protected areas (MPAs) covering 20% of the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone. …
27 Aug 2009 | News story
