Tag: Deforestation - Page 14
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation & Forest Degradation Overestimated by IPCC
New research published in Nature Geoscience shows that the oft-used figure for the contribution of deforestation towards total carbon dioxide is a bit too high. Rather than 20%, as was estimated by the 2007 IPCC
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More Cities Means More Warming, Sure - But More Agricultural Land Means More Cooling?
A new study of the effect of land use changes on surface temperatures demonstrates what anyone who lives in a city intuitively knows: Urban areas are hotter than the surrounding countryside -- the heat island effect has been
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The World's Second Largest Tropical Rainforest
Why I didn't know much about Mesoamerica's Maya Forest (or 'Selva Maya' in Spanish), I'm not sure (and yes, am admittedly embarrassed). My guess is that
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Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Shows the Commons Doesn't Always End in Tragedy
If you've been around the environmental movement for more than a week you've surely heard someone toss out the notion of the tragedy of the commons. It's fully
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Only One-Sixth of European Retailers Showing Sustainable Palm Oil Progress
Back in the spring WWF said that they found that while plenty of companies had committed to using sustainable palm oil, only a tiny percentage of the available oil was actually being purchased and they would start outing
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Conclusions of the 2009 World Forestry Congress
Photo: Paula Alvarado. As we mentioned last week, from October 18 until 23 Buenos Aires was host of the XIII World Forestry Congress. With less than two months to Copenhagen, climate change in the center of political discussions, and forests being a
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Logged Tropical Rainforest Can Regain Lost Biodiversity in 15 Years, If Managed Properly
Here's a testimony to the resiliency of tropical forests: Mongabay points out that a study in the journal Conservation Biology shows that, if managed properly, forests which have been logged can return to
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Plant Your Own Carbon Offsets With WCAFI Tree Kits
Okay, so its not a one to one match to offset your emissions, but for every tree kit you purchase from the World Clean Air Forest Initiative, they will also plant a tree to match your tree. This two for one sale on trees has one goal,
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Palm Oil Biodiesel, Now With 2000% the Emissions of Fossil Fuels
Can we just all put palm oil biodiesel produced on deforested peatlands to rest already: A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme shows that biodiesel production under these
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WFC 2009: Zero Deforestation by 2020 a Utopia; Net Deforestation Reduction, not that Much
TreeHugger is at the World Forest Congress, which is taking place in Buenos Aires until October 23. With forests being a key element in the fight against climate change, deforestation taking 13 million hectares of native woods
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Bushmeat Trade in Central Africa Severely Underestimated - Increases as Forest Cover Declines
New analysis of the bushmeat trade in central Africa by TRAFFIC shows that the scale of trade has been severely underestimated and is actually increasing as forest cover declines. By studying statistical data from the
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Impressive: This is What a 15 Tons Illegally cut Tree from the Amazon Looks Like
We're talking about deforestation in the Amazon all the time, but can we really understand the magnitude of what we're saying? This is where an image is worth a thousand words: this is how a 15 tons, 40 meters tall, ¡250! years of age,
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Greenpeace Says Bolivian Offset Project is One Big Carbon Scam & US Electric Companies Behind It
Here's a good example of how not to do carbon offsets, as well as the potential danger in relying on sub-national REDD offset programs rather than reducing emissions at the source: Greenpeace USA has just released a new report
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On the Way to COP15: Battling an Unlevel Playing Field
As was expected, the bar for progress and positive outcomes was set quite low for the Bangkok Climate Talks. Contentious issues--such as defining "common but differentiated
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What is Brazil Planning to Propose at Copenhagen
Brazilian president Luis Inacio 'Lula' Da Silva is not only going to this year's Copenhagen summit, he's also actively participating in negotiations. Which is a good thing, since the country is one of the most carbon emitting
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EU Sides with Corrupt African Governments to Block Stronger REDD Forest Protection Scheme
With the latest (and second-to-last) round of negotiations before COP15 just finished in Bangkok, the gap between rich and poor nations on each other's responsibilities, by many accounts, has not narrowed.
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Trashing Tragedy of the Commons? Communities Found to Manage Forests Better Than Government
It's economic and environmental conventional wisdom that natural resources held in common tend to get over-exploited. But a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and
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Brazil's Beef & Leather Giants Unite Against Amazon Deforestation
Another good news update in the battle against deforestation in the Amazon: Greenpeace is hailing the announcement by four of the world's largest players in the cattle industry that they have committed to ban purchases of
