December 2014, IISD news - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) released a Forest Finance Working Paper on the contribution of the forestry sector to employment, value-added, and export earnings at global, regional and national levels. Overall, the report states that in 2011, the global export of forest...

5 December 2014, IISD news - The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) launched a report analyzing 23 REDD+ initiatives in Brazil, Cameroon, Indonesia, Peru, Tanzania and Viet Nam on the sidelines of the Lima Climate Change Conference. The report identifies many of the challenges faced by the early REDD+ projects...

21 October 2014, Mongabay news - Colombia has for the first time released an annual report on deforestation, revealing that forest loss during 2013 was lower than the recent average. The government says some 120,933 hectares of natural forest were cleared between January and December 2013. That is significantly lower than the...

17 October 2014, IISD news -Braulio de Souza Dias, Executive Secretary, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and Emmanuel Ze Meka, Executive Director, International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) extending the Collaborative Initiative for tropical forest biodiversity...

8 October 2014, IISD news - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a 10 million Euro investment in agroforestry through the Moringa Private Equity Fund. The fund will be used to support projects that combine tree plantations with agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa. The fund will provide smallholders with...

23 September 2014, IISD news - Following the New York Declaration on Forests agreed to at Climate Summit 2014, Liberia and Norway announced a six-year US$150 million partnership to end deforestation in Liberia by 2020. The project will provide direct payments for conservation to forest dwelling communities, recognize indigenous...