Patricia Forests are a great joy to me and I love spending time in them when I can.
Make Forests Count What does the "Copenhagen Accord" mean for forests? There is commitment to help developing countries reduce deforestation, but details were stranded in the draft legal texts. Same fate for draft text related to making forests count in developed countries. These issues will be taken up again in 2010 and we have a lot... to build on - over 3000 supporters and key countries like France, Norway and Brazil.
Make Forests Count Make Forests Count on Raise Your Voice
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Watch the call to action from Chris Henschel, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Canada. Recorded during the UN Climate Talks in Bangkok, September/October, 2009.
Make Forests Count NYT Blog Post on the logging loophole proposed in Copenhagen - quote from me and Peg Putt of The Wilderness Society, Australia
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As developed countries unveil their plans for forestry at the Copenhagen talks, advocates have spied what they call a lot of "creative accounting."
Make Forests Count More from Chris Henschel live from Copenhagen: "01:20 sticking around a little longer to propose some text to a negotiator that would help restrict forest accountancy fraud!"
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...passing on information and ideas about forests and climate change action and policy
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Straight from Copenhagen climate change talks, CPAWS' Chris Henschel tweets:
"00:24 Gathering intelligence; speaking to negotiators in the halls...
not clear what the next steps on forestry negotiations will be"
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...passing on information and ideas about forests and climate change action and policy
Make Forests Count Update from one of the 3 last Canadian environmentalists allowed to access the Climate Conference
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350 is the key climate change number - the maximum global atmospheric concentration that the planet can sustain without catastrophic effects from global warming.The number of today and tomorrow is 300. ...
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Copenhagen -- A Canadian conservationist is attracting media attention in Europe, the U.S. and Australia for his criticism of the attempt by developed countries to avoid accounting for greenhouse gas emissions ...
Make Forests Count Making Forests Count for Caribou And You - an update from Bou the Woodland Caribou!
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Back in October, I blogged about why Making Forests Count at the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen is important to caribou and you.
Sean Kastner You guys should do an auction with me, send me stuff and I'll sell it for you ans send major proceeds! :)
Make Forests Count WOHOO! RT @biocarbonman: Gave the http://www.makeforestscount.org/ petition to Fin. Env. Min. http://ow.ly/MK7k
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Story about the logging loophole on ABC Radio Australia News - I am quoted near the end of the article: "Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society spokesman, Chris Henschel, says
forestry accounting proposals from New Zealand and other developed
countries allowed them to "cheat" on emission targets."
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Developing nations negotiating at the Copenhagen climate change talks have returned to the table after staging a five-hour walkout.
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France and Chris Henschel criticize Australia for proposed logging loophole in Copenhagen climate talks http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content
Make Forests Count Boston Globe story on the need to protect boreal forests!
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A lake in the boreal forest north of Ottawa. Peat in the forest has been absorbing and storing carbon for thousands of years. (Fred Chartrand/ The Canadian Press for The Boston Globe)
