Climate Change

Awareness rate about climate change good in A.P.’

Prof. S.

Publication Date: 
10/07/2015
Hindu (Hyderabad)
Tags:
Andhra Pradesh, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Compensation, Forest Conservation
Forests

Tanzania: Plastic Desks to Replace Wooden Ones in Conservation Efforts

Dodoma — AS part of efforts to conserve forests, the government plans to introduce special plastic desks in schools to replace wooden tables.

Publication Date: 
08/07/2015
All Africa
Tags:
Forests, Deforestation, Tanzania, Forest Conservation, Africa
Forests

WWF and Unilever announce campaign to protect one million trees

WWF and Unilever have launched a one-year partnership to engage consumers in the fight against deforestation, it was announced today (7 July).

Publication Date: 
08/07/2015
Edie (UK)
Tags:
Forests, Trees, WWF, Industry, Deforestation, Forest Conservation, Brazil, Indonesia
Forests

Forest preserving policy to be submitted before the cabinet soon: Senate told

The Ministry of Climate Change would submit a new forest policy before the Cabinet to promote and preserve forests, Minister for Climate Change Senator Mushahidullah Khan Monday told Senate on Mond

Publication Date: 
07/07/2015
Business Recorder (Pakistan)
Tags:
Forests, Pakistan, Forest Conservation, Forest Policy, South Asia
Forests

Proposal to hike forest environment service fees

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has proposed to the Prime Minister to raise forest environment service fees on companies producing drinking water and hydroelectricity.

Publication Date: 
07/07/2015
Vietnam News
Tags:
Environment, Forests, Forest Conservation, Vietnam
Climate Change

Rethinking forest carbon assessments to account for policy institutions

There has been extensive debate about whether the sustainable use of forests (forest management aimed at producing a sustainable yield of timber or other products) results in superior climate outcomes to conservation (maintenance or enhancement of conservation values without commercial harvesting). Most of the relevant research has relied on consequential life-cycle assessment (LCA), with the results tending to show that sustainable use has lower net greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions than conservation in the long term.

Publication Date: 
29/06/2015
Andrew Macintosh, Heather Keith, David Lindenmayer
Nature Climate Change
1-7
Tags:
Climate Change, Forests, Forest Management, Forest Conservation, Green House Gases, Australia, Carbon Sequestration, Eucalyptus, Forest-Based Industry
Climate Change

MP Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo interview: championing the cause of climate change and low carbon development in Dist. Bolangir, Odisha

Publication Date: 
29/06/2015
India Environment Portal
Tags:
Climate Change, Orissa (Odisha), Bolangir (D), Energy, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Agriculture, Forest Conservation, Green House Gases, Climate Mitigation
Climate Change

MP Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo interview: championing the cause of climate change and low carbon development in Dist. Bolangir, Odisha

MP Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo has been championing the cause of climate change and low carbon development and is planning development activities in his constituency.As an immediate first step, he has supported a study to assess the potential of low carbon development and clean energy access in his constituency Balangir. The report on “ low carbon development plan for Balangir district” of Odisha has been prepared by GSES consultants after interaction with local villagers, stakeholders ,local government officials and some secondary date has been collected from census report. 

 

Publication Date: 
29/06/2015
Tags:
Climate Change, Orissa (Odisha), Bolangir (D), Energy, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Agriculture, Forest Conservation, Green House Gases, Climate Mitigation
Forests

The rainforest is calling...with its own phone

Amid the jungle cacophony of rustling leaves, buzzing bugs, howling monkeys and shrieking parrots, another, more menacing sound can be heard: a revving engine and the crush of truck tires that coul

Publication Date: 
22/06/2015
Irish Times (Ireland)
Tags:
Forests, Deforestation, Amazon, Trees, Forest Conservation
Wildlife

Raising palm oil prices could help to save endangered tigers and orangutans, study claims

Supermarkets could help to save rare endangered animals such as the Sumatran tiger and the orangutan by increasing the price of products containing palm oil providing the money raised went to fores

Publication Date: 
16/06/2015
Independent (United Kingdom)
Tags:
Wildlife, Tiger, Endangered Species, Palm Oil, Forests, Forest Conservation, Deforestation

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