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Andrew Mitchell 17 Dec 2012
You might be forgiven for thinking it was a little odd for Qatar, the nation with the largest per capita emissions on the planet, to be hosting the world’s biggest event aiming to reduce them - this year’s UNFCCC negotiations, known as COP 18.
A vast artificial crescent bay dominated the coastal scene at Doha with at one end the old city, barely an original stone of which remains...
28 Nov 2012
Following on from the October launch of the Little Forest Finance Book in India, the Indonesian version (Buku Kecil Pendanaan Hutan) was launched yesterday in Indonesia.
The launch took place at a high level luncheon in Jakarta with Dr. Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, Head of the National REDD+ Task Force, Republic of Indonesia, with the Norwegian Minister of the Environment, Bård Vegar Solhjell,...
28 Nov 2012
What’s likely to come out of the UNFCCC climate negotiations in Doha, what’s needed from the negotiations in order to make REDD+ viable, and what does all this mean for investors?
In his recent article in Carbon Finance, Matt Leggett, GCP’s head of policy, argues that, with patience with the negotiation process dwindling, a number of strong outcomes are necessary in order to...
GCP Blog 26 Nov 2012
The rate of extinction of plant and animal species is now as much as 1,000 times higher than before humans, as over-exploitation of resources, deforestation, pollution and climate change continue apace. However, a powerful undercurrent is gathering momentum that could turn the tide in favour of recognising nature as a form of fundamental and irreplaceable capital.
In a recent article for the...
GCP Blog 16 Oct 2012
The Global Canopy Programme's new Little Forest Finance Book (download here) was launched today at UN biodiversity conference in Hyderabad, India.
It describes a range of catalysts that can be applied now by public and private sector decision makers in order to rapidly raise the USD billions needed to save the world’s disappearing tropical forests.
The launch comes as governments...
27 Sep 2012
Photographer Ken Goff has kindly allowed us to publish his photo of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge high up in the trees in Sabah, Borneo, during their visit to the Danum Valley Research Centre in September this year.
Kalsum Mohd Yusah, who briefed the couple in the canopy (standing on a branch 50 metres up), was trained through the Global Canopy Programme/Darwin Project, as were several of...
Andrew Mitchell 16 Jul 2012
Anyone reading the newspapers might be forgiven for not noticing the significance of the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Some of the media responses reflected the general mood of disinterest and disappointment, and on the day I returned from Rio, the environment correspondent of the Financial Times could merely muster a report on traffic jams in Rio. I despair! In fact there were a number of significant...
21 Jun 2012
I met an old acquaintance on Monday night at one of the drinks receptions on the sidelines of the Rio+20 conference. Soren Hvalkof is a Danish anthropologist who has devoted his career to working with indigenous communities in Amazonia. Apart from when he was retelling stories about raising his children in the rainforest, he was most animated when discussing his work on the Monitoring Matters...
12 Jun 2012
Carbon Disclosure Project and Forest Footprint Disclosure Project merge to create world’s largest natural capital disclosure system covering carbon, water and forests
London, June 12th 2012: The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and Global Canopy Programme (GCP) today announced an alliance that will see GCP’s Forest Footprint Disclosure Project (FFD) merge with CDP over the...
30 May 2012
One of the biggest outcomes of last year’s 17th Conference of Parties (COP) was the adoption of the Durban Platform (Decision 1/CP.17), which sets 2020 to be the year for a new climate treaty coming into effect . REDD+ will have to be fully included in such a new treaty. However, the question remains – what happens until then?
It’s clear from the attitude of the Subsidiary...