Thursday, December 6, 2012

Seeing REDD: Brazil, Norway in tiff over forest monitoring

Bloomberg: Efforts to produce a global set of rules for protecting forests are being held up by a dispute between Brazil and Norway over who should be responsible for verifying the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed by trees. Brazil's envoy to the UN global warming talks in Doha said actions to prevent deforestation are national measures that should be governed locally and not by international bodies. Norway is seeking stricter oversight for the program from an international organization. The disagreement...

URL: http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/seeing-redd-brazil-norway-in-tiff-over-forest-monitoring-20121206-2awno.html

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