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7 facts and findings about REDD

  By iip | October 8, 2011 - 3:27 pm | Forest
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Reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) is one of recent global mechanisms that expected by developing countries to help in conserving forests, combat climate change as well as eradicate poverty.

Public may aware on deforestation and its impact on climate change. But, halting the deforestation process isn’t simply as people reducing plastic consumption.

Scientists, negotiators as well as activists are searching best ways and practice to address three principles: carbon effectiveness, cost efficiency, and equity issues on both investors and beneficiaries.  I list some interesting figures around reducing emission from deforestation below: (more…)

Deforestation and C02 emissions

  By iip | September 22, 2011 - 3:27 pm | Forest
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As experts says, deforestation is estimated to be responsible for around 20 percent of all human-induced CO2 emissions. Most of this effect being happen in tropical forest. However this figure is highly uncertain. According to 2007 GTZ report, the reasons are:

  • There is a notorious lack in reliable forest inventories.
  • the ascertainment of deforestation depends on the diverging definitions of forests
  • Greenhouse gas emissions from forest degradation (i.e. vegetation loss inside a standing forest) are difficult to estimate, and there is no single accepted definition of it Re-growth after deforestation
  • N2O and CH4 emissions due to forest fires have not yet been quantified on a global scale, but they contribute in a significant way to the increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

What do you think? Should we give priority to avoiding deforestation?

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Poverty doesn’t relate to deforestation?

  By iip | June 20, 2011 - 7:05 pm | Forest
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Reading a brief findings on poverty and deforestation, I remember an old book written by Nancy Lee Peluso who conducted long research at the most dense of agricultural island, Java of Indonesia.

In Rich Forests, Poor People, Peluso analyzes Javanese farmers who live alongside state forest lands. Because of  limited the legal access and customary rights to the forest, they have been pushed toward illegal use of forest resources.

Peluso presents the story of the forest and its people. If there’s no  major changes in forest policy, there will be increase on economic, social, and political costs to the government, leading to the continued forest destruction.

What the recent study tells about the deforestation and poverty?
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    Poverty drives deforestation