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Deal to save forests in danger as rich countries stall on targets and financing
BARCELONA - Negotiations on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in Barcelona, a month before the crucial Copenhagen meeting, are not showing progress needed to reach an agreement. This reflects a wider lack of progress that has dogged these talks, as industrialised countries have failed to match their rhetoric with positive actions on agreeing the necessary cuts in emissions and providing adequate financing for developing countries.
With the prospects for a legally-binding agreement in Copenhagen fading there is concern that REDD might be agreed under a separate decision to try to salvage the failed negotiations.
10K Race Results Here!
Weather aside, our 9th annual Rainforest 10K Run went off with a bang yesterday at Finsbury Park in North London and what a top morning it was!
From former Olympian Brian Hooper who led the warm up, to those volunteering, the many along to cheers their friends and family, to those fantastic few thousand all running for the rainforest - a huge thank you to all for making our race a great success!
The results for both the kids fun run and the 10K main event can be found HERE.
Rainforest Foundation UK 20 Years and Counting
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Sam's been back to Central African Republic (CAR) one of the most inaccessible countries in the Congo Basin. Read about his experiences here.
Do Trees Grow on Money?
Rainforests are back on the global agenda in a big way. Governments now recognise the importance of protecting tropical forests in order to avoid dangerous climate change, and there is now much debate. As governments try to thrash out the details of a new international agreement, expected to be signed at the end of 2009, they are discussing how best to include measures to save rainforests, and thereby address one of the major causes of climate change. Worldwide, forest destruction generates more greenhouse gas emissions each year than do all the trains, planes and cars on the planet. So if we are to tackle global warming, there is an urgent need to find ways to reduce the 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by forest destruction each year, and to keep the remaining forests standing.
