For peat’s sake, we need an overhaul of forestry aid

On 9 September 2007, Australian Ministers and the Indonesian President announced a $100 million Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP). This would involve, it was declared, protecting 70,000 hectares of peat forests, re-flooding 200,000 hectares of dried peatland, and planting 100 million trees in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. What has happened to a project that was promised, as Minister Downer put it back in 2007, to make “a very real and very practical contribution to improving our environment” and yield “immediate and tangible results”?

By Erik Olbrei and Stephen Howes | Reneweconomy | 22 March 2012

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Interview with Chip Fay and Steve Rhee, Climate Land Use Alliance

“It’s about land use rationalisation based on the recognition of rights of local communities”

By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 14th March 2012

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Foreign aid cash spent tackling climate change

Nearly £1.5 billion has been spent tackling man-made climate change by Government department responsible for fighting poverty abroad, it can be revealed

By Richard Gray | The Telegraph | 18 Feb 2012

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