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Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation

Tropical forest Indonesia

Tropical forests are becoming net carbon producers, instead of carbon sinks

Environment

Tropical forests have historically absorbed excess carbon dioxide, but new research indicates that these areas have become a net source of CO2.

Highly touted REDD program still looking for footing in Indonesia, four years later

Environment

Climate conference promises non-binding

Environment
The World

Preserving the Congo Basin’s Trees, Part 1

REDD Debate

Can REDD Work for the Amazon?

The Amazon has experienced two once-in-a-century droughts in the last five years. The extreme droughts have killed millions of trees, which release carbon dioxide and turn the world’s largest rainforest into a source of greenhouse gasses. Researchers worry this will compromise REDD, a United Nations mechanism to stall global warming by reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation.

Cancun REDD Wrap

Despite the urgency of changing weather patterns the 16th UN climate summit in Cancun adopted only modest results. However, there was some progress on REDD, a scheme to reduce deforestation and lock carbon dioxide in trees.

The World

Negotiating Rights to Forests

A global agreement on forest protection could cut emissions from deforestation, but many worry it could lead to more land evictions and human rights abuses in the forests of tropical countries.

REDD Corruption

The watchdog group Global Witness finds evidence of corruption in some countries under the UN’s Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation  ? REDD – scheme.

The World

Part 3

Living on Earth’s special report on REDD and the Congo Basin concludes. There’s optimism that REDD could help preserve the carbon in the trees and, perhaps, alleviate the poverty of the nation’s people.