Leading financial institutions upped the ante on their future role in mitigating climate change as they called for more effective forest-carbon regulations during a United Nations report launch in London, just months ahead of an international climate change meeting to be held in South Africa.
The 18th Amendment Implementation Commission seems hesitant to oblige environmentalists` proposal to transform the Ministry of Environment into Sustainable Development and Renewable Resource Management Division, Dawn has learnt.
Mechanisms to fight climate change need to be strengthened and made more transparent to reduce increasing risks of corruption, Transparency International (TI) said.
The watchdog group released a report on Saturday, entitled "Global Corruption: Climate Change," and based on contributions from more than 50 experts.
It found that stronger oversight is needed in the countries most affected by cl
This report by Transparency International explores major climate-related corruption risks, sets out practical guidelines and calls on strengthening of governance mechanisms to reduce corruption risk and make climate change policy effective and successful.
This report assesses the scope and opportunities for forest carbon activities and investments in Sri Lanka, the implementation challenges and steps to move forward.
Interest in “nested” approaches to REDD+ has grown steadily as policy makers, practitioners and investors seek to reconcile approaches to reducing, and rewarding, emissions reductions at different scales – national, subnational and project.
Our objective was to compare and evaluate the practical applicability to REDD+ of ten forest management, social, environmental and carbon standards that are currently active worldwide: Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB), CCB REDD+ Social and Environmental Standards (CCBA REDD+ S&E), CarbonFix Standard (CFS), Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Global Conservation Standard (GCS),
This study presents a report on the current needs and gaps in information amongst engaged REDD+ stakeholders.
The Forum interviewed 70 individuals identified either as directly working on REDD or as an engaged stakeholder in the REDD readiness
process.
