Posts Tagged ‘REDD’

Mapping Change

Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

The Woods Hole Research Center was like a miniature United Nations last month, as scholars from Africa, South America, and Asia took part in a two-week workshop at the Woods Hole Road campus.

They came to learn advanced satellite imaging techniques, and left at the end of September with maps that will help their countries manage their forests and take part in a potential global carbon credit trading system.

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Tags: Abel Siample, biomass, cap and trade, carbon credit, Climate Change, CO2 emissions, deforestation, Edersson Cabrera, Edward Ssenyonjo, Eric Armijo, Falmouth, forest cover, forest management, global warming, Green Belt Movement, Indian Forest Survey, Joseph Kellndorfer, Kenya, Mukund Srivastava, Nadine Laporte, Nguyen Hanh Quyenv, pan-tropical map, Peter Ndunda, REDD, Ugandan National Forest Authority, UN Climate Conference, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, Woods Hole Research Center, Zambia Forestry Department
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Deconstructing Copenhagen

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Two months after representatives of the world governments met for the UN Conference of Parties (COP 15) to discuss new strategies for dealing with climate change, many of the policy negotiators are left to pick up the pieces.

Nora Greenglass, a research assistant at the Woods Hole Research Center, shared her impressions as a negotiator for the UN program for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) with members of the Woods Hole Science and Technology Education Partnership (WHSTEP) last week.

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Tags: cap and trade, Copenhagen, Nora Greenglass, REDD, UN Climate Conference, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole Research Center
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