Mongabay: Greenpeace has launched a consultation process to establish global standards for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) projects. Today the environmental group released a set of international safeguards to reduce the likelihood REDD+ projects result in social conflict, have adverse impacts on wildlife and forest biodiversity, fuel corruption, subsidize industrial logging of primary forests, or disenfranchise local communities. Greenpeace is seeking comment on the standards...
URL: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0626-forests-and-people-first.html
Enclosure: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/Global/international/publications/forests/2012/REDD/Forests-and-People-First.pdf
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