Guest post from Phil Shearman, PhD, from the Remote Sensing Centre at the University of Papua New Guinea. As someone who spends his life squinting at satellite pictures to determine what is going on 800km below, the urgency of the discussions in Oslo and their implications on the lives of local people has been most [...]
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The national climate change mitigation strategies for forests of Ghana, Vietnam, Panama, Paraguay and Papua New Guinea were presented. All 5 countries reported growing levels of deforestation stemming from a number of reasons but generally linked to land use change based on economic opportunities. The countries are in different stages of development or implementation of [...]
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