Economic potential of carbon-rich mangroves untapped: report

Policy interventions and carbon finance mechanisms needed to restore conservation

Forests brushed aside

CoP-11 fails to finalise guidelines to safeguard forest biodiversity

‘Forests can’t survive without communities’

Nepal’s Forest Act of 1993, which allows communities to manage their forests, is admired and emulated by governments and movements across …

India readies to implement UN’s REDD+ programme

MoEF’s draft policy aims to create the framework for transferring financial benefits from REDD+ to local communities involved in protecting …

Green Mission: raise forests, sink CO2

Protect biodiversity too, say experts  

Science & Technology - Briefs

Forestry, the Mexican way

Soon: India’s first REDD project

Forest conservation effort in Meghalaya can claim carbon benefits

One step forward, two steps back

Countries want to do little to keep global average temperature rise to below 2oC. The Warsaw climate talks have exposed this. A report by Uthra …

World gets a yellow card

The Warsaw climate talks serve a grim warning to the world that inaction will cost, writes Chandra Bhushan as he leaves Warsaw just before the …

Power games at UN climate talks

Climate talks unfolded amid high drama. Developing countries protested inaction by developed countries, civil society organisations walked out, …

Letters

Reluctant funding

Compromise on resources salvages CBD conference; marine protection gets big boost

SBI deadlock looms over Bonn climate talks

Russia raises matter of procedural irregularities at Doha; parallel sessions continue

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