Post published on REDD+ Monitor November 2015 On 28 September 2015, Brazil issued its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution (INDC), committing to decrease its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 37% below 2005 levels in 2025 and by 43% by 2030. This may sound very ambitious for a developing country that is no longer “taking off” in…
REDD+ on the ground: Unintended consequences in ‘a microcosm of the Amazon’
Post by Kate Evans December 2014 BOGOR, Indonesia—When Brazilian researcher Maria Fernanda Gebara thinks of her first visit to the Amazon municipality São Félix do Xingu in 2010, the first thing she remembers is the smoke. “My eyes were burning all the time working there,” she said. The smoke came from fires lit by farmers,…
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