Scientists investigate climate and vegetation drivers of terrestrial carbon fluxes  

Phys.Org | 14.06.19

"The responses of ecosystem-atmosphere exchange of CO2 to climate and vegetation variations are complex, which poses great challenges to models seeking to represent terrestrial ecosystem responses to climatic variation."

Why Does the Paris Climate Agreement Need a Rulebook? 7 Questions and Answers  

WRI | 13.06.19

Countries spent three years negotiating guidelines for bringing the Paris Agreement fully to life, and in December 2018 in Katowice, Poland they agreed on the Paris Agreement Rulebook to put those guidelines in place.

Despite a decade of zero-deforestation vows, forest loss continues: Greenpeace  

Mongabay | 13.06.19

Whether companies can meet their zero-deforestation commitments also depends on what one expects the commitments to achieve.

Enforcement Efforts to Slow Amazon Deforestation Plummet Under New Brazilian President  

Yale E306 | 12.06.19

Currently, 21 of 27 positions for state superintendent — the office responsible for enforcing deforestation actions — are vacant.

Community knowledge can be as valuable as ecological knowledge in environmental decision-making  

Phys.Org | 12.06.19

"Our research shows that environment managers should always focus on improving their understanding of the community or environment that is directly impacted by their management actions."

Is REDD ready for its closeup? Reports vary  

Mongabay | 12.06.19

The ProPublica report has been criticized by advocates of carbon credit schemes who say that Song has failed to tell the whole story.

Touted as 'development,' land grabs hurt local communities, and women most of all  

Phys.Org | 11.06.19

The findings are important because the transactions, also known as land grabs, are occurring at a pace and scale that are unprecedented.

Large-scale restoration already underway in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest  

GLF | 11.06.19

For the first time ever, scientists have been able to estimate the current state of restoration of native forests in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.

Indonesian ban on clearing new swaths of forest to be made permanent  

Mongabay | 10.06.19

Indonesia is currently one of the top emitters in the world, but unlike industrialized nations, the bulk of its emissions come from deforestation rather than burning of fossil fuels.

Carbon offsets are not our get-out-of-jail free card  

UN Environment | 10.06.19

What we must look at, though, is how these actions sum up to reflect the true cost of emissions and the urgency of their reduction. It cannot simply be a one-for-one model.

Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures: 2019 Status Report  

TCFD | 06.19

To better understand current climate-related financial disclosure practices and how they have evolved, the Task Force reviewed reports for over 1,100 companies from 142 countries in eight industries over a three-year period.

2018 Annual Report  

UNFCCC | 06.19

The UN Climate Change Annual Report illustrates the key achievements of the UNFCCC process and the activities of the secretariat, particularly their impact in relation to the implementation of the Convention, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.

Revisiting the relationships between human well-being and ecosystems in dynamic social-ecological systems: Implications for stewardship and development  

Global Sustainability | 06.19

We argue that the ways in which we as humans derive well-being from nature – for example by harvesting firewood, selling fish or enjoying natural beauty – feed back into how we behave towards the environment. This feedback is mediated by institutions (rules, regulations) and by individual capacities to act.

Mainstreaming indigenous and local communities’ connections with nature for policy decision-making  

Global Ecology and Conservation | 07.19

This paper highlights the key attributes of these connections and suggests evaluation pathways to mainstream them into policy development. For this, we integrate and apply the ecosystem services (ES) and human capability concepts.

Global data and tools for local forest cover loss and REDD+ performance assessment: Accuracy, uncertainty, complementarity and impact  

IJAEOG | 08.19

Here, we analyse (1) differences in accuracy between datasets of forest cover change; (2) if and how combinations of datasets can increase accuracy; and we demonstrate (3) the effect of (not) doing accuracy assessments for REDD+ performance measurements.

MAAP #101: DEFORESTATION CONTINUES IN COLOMBIAN AMAZON  

MAAP | 10.06.19

Here, we provide a real-time update for 2019 based on early warning GLAD alerts. The alerts indicate the loss of 56,300 hectares (139,100 acres) in the first five months of 2019 (January to May) in the Colombian Amazon.

ESP 10 World Conference  

Ecosystem Services Partnership | 21-25.10.19

ESP is happy to announce that our 10th world conference will take place in Hannover, Germany from 21-25 October, 2019. ESP connects over 3000 ecosystem services scientists, policy makers and practitioners who work together in more than 40 Working Groups and a growing number of National Networks on all continents.