| News World leaders in L’Aquila, Italy reaffirm the importance of forests in fighting climate change  Group of Eight leaders meeting in L'Aquila, Italy, last month reaffirmed the need to protect the world’s forests in addressing climate change and pledged to cooperate around innovative initiatives like the UN Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (UN-REDD Programme). Read full article… What's new in UN-REDD Programme support to country action The UN-REDD Programme empowers nine countries to manage their REDD processes and get “ready for REDD” in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The new UN-REDD Programme website displays one page for each country and provides up-to-date information and documents related to the development of their national programmes. Read full article… Latest in REDD Talks in Bonn The UNFCCC Parties met in Bonn last week (10-14 August) and made progress in clarifying issues on REDD that will need to be negotiated if there is to be agreement on REDD in Copenhagen. Following the UNFCCC talks, the Coalition for Rainforest Nations (CfRN), co-sponsored by the UN-REDD Programme, FCPF, GTZ and GEF, held a successful workshop on REDD Readiness at the end of the week. Read full article... |