February 11, 2015, Mongabay news - The worlds first cabinet-level ministry dedicated to implementing REDD+ has been dissolved. In accordance with Indonesian Presidential Decree No. 16/2015 the agency known as BP REDD+, along with the National Council on Climate Change, has been absorbed into the newly merged Ministry of the...

11 February 2015, Mongabay news - While a number of high profile companies have adopted policies designed to exclude deforestation from their commodity supply chains, such commitments remain outside the norm, indicating that most companies still lack forest-friendly safeguards, finds a comprehensive survey conducted by the...

29 January2015, Jakarta Post news - President Joko Jokowi Widodo has officially merged the National Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Agency (BP REDD+) with the Environment and Forestry Ministry, raising questions about the future of the countrys fight against global warming. Jokowi signed...

27 January 2015, Mongabay news - Seven conservation societies have joined a campaign to push the Obama administration to end old-growth forest logging in Alaskas Tongass National Forest. The American Fisheries Society, American Ornithologists Union, American Society of Mammalogists, Ecological Society of America, Pacific...

16 January 2014, IISD news - The eighth meeting of the Council of Ministers to the Commission des Forets dAfrique Centrale (COMIFAC) met to provide advice and guidance to members and partners as well as the Executive Secretariat, approve the COMIFAC budget, and consider strategic directions. Overall, the Council of Ministers...

January 2015, IISD news - The UN Forum on Forests (UNFF) launched a website to support the ongoing Facilitative Process adopted to assist developing countries in identifying and accessing financing for sustainable forest management (SFM). The Facilitative Process is based on the tenants of a bottom-up approach that takes into...