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11 November 2015 WASHINGTON, D.C. Forest Trends, a non-profit organization that tracks global forest developments, today released the most comprehensive analysis to date of the United Nations» program for protecting forests and generating forest conservation finance.

Forest Trends, a non-profit organization that tracks global forest developments, recommends that the Myanmar Government adopt firm policies to reform the forest sector and scale up the national reforestation policy.

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in the context of the present government policy of high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality, fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.

«There really is something special about indigenous people's management of forests,» agrees Jonah Busch, an economist at the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the analysis.

Absent specific strategies like these, current global targets addressing climate change, poverty, and biodiversity may fall short, including the United Nations» Sustainable Development Goals to sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss.

Grasslands and semi-arid regions are not nearly as carbon dense as forests, so on a global scale, loss of carbon storage in those areas because of expanding energy development doesn't have much of an effect on global climate change, said

Making all deforestation «illegal» «The Wilmar commitment sets a new global standard for industry and creates new constituencies in forest countries among the private sector for improved land - use policies and improved law enforcement,» said Frances Seymour, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and an expert in forest pglobal standard for industry and creates new constituencies in forest countries among the private sector for improved land - use policies and improved law enforcement,» said Frances Seymour, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and an expert in forest pGlobal Development and an expert in forest policy.

«This is an important dialogue space between governments and indigenous and forest peoples to consider local and global needs for development and climate change mitigation.

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After many interviews with biologists and climate scientists focused on the Amazon, as well as people like Bruce Babbitt, the former United States secretary of the interior who has spent a lot of time crisscrossing the Amazon, I remain convinced that there is a path to development for Brazil — even with the growing global appetite for soy and biofuels and roads to the Pacific — that can preserve a large fraction of the vast forest region.

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The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

«Deforestation and forest degradation, through agricultural expansion, conversion to pastureland, infrastructure development, destructive logging, fires etc. account for nearly 20 % of global greenhouse gas emissions, more than the entire global transportation sector and second only to the energy sector.»

Protecting tropical forests is good for the global climate and good for development in forested countries.

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While all forests play a key role in providing ecosystem services, contributing to the global sustainable development objective and combating climate change, it is generally accepted that private forests provide proportionally more market commodities than their publicly - owned and managed counterparts.

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Joint Submission by the Center for Carbon Removal, Conservation International, Environmental Defense Fund, Forest Trends, National Wildlife Federation, Natural Resources Defense Council, The Nature Conservancy, Rainforest Alliance, Wildlife Conservation Society, and the Woods Hole Research Center, regarding views on APA Item 6: Matters relating to the global stocktake referred to in Article 14 of the Paris Agreement: (a) identification of the sources of input for the global stocktake; and (b) development of the modalities of the global stocktake, in particular the role of the land sector and its potential for enhanced action, including Intact Forest Landscapes

: REDD, Development and Sustainable Forest Management, a briefing paper released today by Global Witness.

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The report card is part of Global Witness» Making the Forest Sector Transparent project, funded by the UK Department for International Development (DfID) Governance and Transparency Fund.The Forest Sector Transparency Report Card can be here.

«The R - 20 is a global coalition committed to fast tracking the development of clean technologies, climate resilient projects and green investment, and influencing national and international policies,» according to a Governors» Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF), an initiative formally launched at UN climate - change talks in Poznan, Poland, in December, 2008.

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He said business people should support Brazil's government in measures to protect the forest, adding that the current global model of economic development is unsustainable.

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