Tag Archives: Forests

Advocate Douglas Shaw has been taking the major banks in South Africa to the High Court for a sum of an estimated 62 billion rand. This is asking the court to order that the major banks repay the money to the thousands of bond holders who were repossessed without following ...

Brighter Green & The Johns Hopkins Center:  Livestock, Biosequestration and Forests: Closing the ‘Reality Gap’ in Climate and Land Use Policy and Finance  Moderator:  Simone Lovera Global Forest Coalition, Paraguay   Panellists:  Doreen Stabinsky  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP), USA Tesfaye Gonfa  REDD+ regional manager, Federal Democratic Republic of ...

COP 20 Lima Interview with REDD+ Management Agency Heru Prasetyo who reports to the President in a similar position as a minister, Mr Prasetyo discusses: Halting deforestation for Palm Oil Plantations in spite of increased global market demands with better plantation productivity. Reflooding of Peatlands to reduce fires, methane and CO2 ...

COP 21 PARIS University of Reading UK speaker Dr. Peter Dorward & Walker Inst. Prof. Ros Cornforth on: Supporting African farming communities with climate data to enable improved decision-making criteria, food crop security and create sustainable livelihoods in developing countries. Dr Peter Dorward: Most climate services have tended to focus ...

Organic Farmer & Panel Speaker Theo de Jager, on,viable Organic Farming and the power of the End-consumers choice in the Value Chain to support global sustainable conservation farming. The most important people are the house wives and journalists. The housewife who stands in front of the stove, decides what the ...

COP 16 CANCUN Dr. Keith Paustian speaks on effective nitrogen and soil carbon management in agriculture. Take for example the issue of nitrogen management, whether you’re using fertiliser or manure, basically nitrous oxide emissions are resulting from the inefficient use of Nitrogen. The more nitrogen that doesn’t get into the plant, ...

COP 16 CANCUN – US Navy RAdm. David Titley: He asks 3 questions: Does the United States navy believe climate change is real? If we do, how does it affect the United States Navy, relative to our role in National Security? Finally, if both of those are yes, what’s the Navy ...

COP 16 CANCUN. Paul Steele Exec-Director of ATAG Air Transport Action Group speaks on global Aviation Industry CO2 emissions and outlines Industry measures being undertaken to mitigate global emissions.

COP 20 Lima. John Nissen & Paul Beckwith speak on the global underestimation of the scale of Methane emissions & its contribution to Global Warming. The IPCC has not included Methane emissions in its current reports. Methane is a vastly more damaging than CO2 & even after decaying for 100 ...