The last east kalimantan forests...

Apakah perubahan iklim itu? Adalah Panel Antar pemerintahan PBB tentang Perubahan Iklim (IPCC) yang berhasil meyakinkan negara-negara di dunia lewat fakta-fakta ilmiah hubungan antara aktivitas manusia dengan pemanasan global yang mengakibatkan perubahan iklim (man-made climate change), setelah beberapa lama hanya dianggap sebagai hipotesa belaka. Keberhasilan dalam peningkatan kesadaran ini, yang sekaligus memberikan dasar bagi upaya solusinya, mengantarkan IPCC menerima Hadiah Nobel Perdamaian bersama Al Gore pada 2007. [i] Beberapa dampak perubahan iklim yang mungkin timbul di antaranya: peningkatan suhu, suhu rata-rata tahunan telah meningkat sekitar 0,3 derajat Celsius pada seluruh musim terutama sejak 1990; peningkatan intensitas curah hujan, di Indonesia curah hujan per tahun diperkirakan meningkat 2-3% di seluruh Indonesia, dalam periode yang lebih pendek tetapi meningkatkan resiko banjir secara signifikan; ancaman terhadap ketahanan pangan pada bidang pertanian; naiknya perm

By Arwa Damon , CNN December 7, 2009 -- Updated 0051 GMT (0851 HKT) Sumatra, Indonesia (CNN) -- The land still smolders, tinted with a depressing gray. Twisted hulks of tree trunks take on abnormal shapes. A dark black canal cuts through the wasted landscape. It looks like a scene from an apocalyptic movie where an unknown force has obliterated all life. But this is the reality of Sumatra, Indonesia's largest island. The Kampar Peninsula was once virgin rainforest, some of the most biodiverse in the world. The region has now been transformed into a lifeless plain, soon to be replanted with monocultures. Environmental groups describe the degradation as rampant pillaging -- the work of multibillion dollar paper, pulp and palm oil conglomerates. Already 85 percent of Sumatra's forests are gone. What is left is vanishing at an alarming rate -- an area the size of 50 football fields disappears every hour, according to Greenpeace and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the Unit

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Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) is a concept that has been gaining momentum in climate change policy negotiations both internationally and at the national level in capitals around the world. Yet despite the increasing levels of interest and activity in REDD, there is a great deal of confusion that still surrounds the concept. Stakeholders across the spectrum have differing levels of comprehension about REDD and differing ideas about what REDD is. This confusion is beginning to lead to unrealistic expectations about both the positive and negative impacts of REDD, to opportunistic land speculation by investors, and to naïve assumptions about what it takes to implement a REDD program. The Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance; Conservation International; Rainforest Alliance; The Nature Conservancy; and the World Wildlife Fund have created the training materials on this site to help instill a basic level of understanding about REDD among stakehol

REDD, or reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, is one of the most controversial new issues in the climate change debate. The basic concept is simple: governments, companies or forest owners in the South should be rewarded for keeping their forests instead of cutting them down. The devil, as always, is in the details. The idea of making payments to discourage deforestation and forest degradation was discussed in the negotiations leading to the Kyoto Protocol, but it was ultimately rejected. REDD developed from a proposal in 2005 by a group of countries calling themselves the Coalition of Rainforest Nations. Two years later, the proposal was taken up at the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Bali (COP-13). An agreement on REDD is planned to be made at COP-15 which will take place in Copenhagen. full site: http://www.redd-monitor.org/redd-an-introduction/