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Dar es Salaam, 9 July 2015 - Deforestation in Tanzania could cost the national economy 5,588 billion Tanzanian Shillings (US$3.5 billion, based on 2013 exchange rates) between 2013 and 2033 on current trends,…

Thousands of people are benefiting from a carbon financing scheme in Kenya, which covers over 500,000 acres of threatened forest and contributes to wildlife conservation by securing a migration corridor. Wildlife…

The Ayoreo people of western Paraguay, who include the last uncontacted indigenous peoples south of the Amazon, have an enemy that they call "the beast with metal skin and attacker of the world". Their spears…

Lima, 8 December 2014 - At the UN Climate Change Conference in Lima, a group of five countries has taken steps towards improved national and global forest action. Colombia, Guyana, Indonesia, Malaysia and Mexico…

New York, 23 September 2014 - World leaders announced new pledges to restore over 30 million hectares of degraded forest lands today at the UN Climate Summit in New York. The commitments come from Ethiopia,…

New York, 23 September 2014 - An innovative public-private partnership of multinationals, governments, civil society and indigenous peoples today pledged to cut the loss of forests in half by 2020 and end it a…

Geneva/Nairobi, 4 September 2014 - Efforts to combat climate change and improve livelihoods by restoring forest lands continue to build momentum. A new collaboration is being launched between the United Nations…

Nairobi, 26 June 2014 - High-level government representatives from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania today, at the first United Nations Environment Assemble (UNEA), announced their intention to work together, along with…

WASHINGTON- The World Resources Institute (WRI), Google,UNEP and a group of more than 40 partners on Thursday launched Global Forest Watch (GFW), a dynamic online forest monitoring and alert system that empowers…

The UN-REDD Fifth-anniversary Dinner Oslo REDD Exchange, Voksenasen Hotel, Oslo, Norway 30 October 2013. Ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of FAO, UNDP and UNEP, collaborating agencies of the UN REDD programme, I…