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Ecuador, not Nigeria, grabs $4m UN-REDD fund
Posted by Daily Independent: None Given on March 28th, 2011
Daily Independent: * Xavier Mugumya (Uganda) (left), Clea Paz (UN-REDD Secretariat), Chief Peter Ikwem (Obudu Forest Community Leader, Cross River State, Nigeria), Yemi Katerere (Executive Secretary, UN-REDD Programme), Gebon Timothy Kataps (Commissioner for Environment & Urban Development, Taraba State, Nigeria), Odigha Odigha (Chairman, Cross River State Forestry Commission, Nigeria), Salisu Dahiru (National Coordinator, REDD Programme, Nigeria) and Alexander Muller (Assistant Director-General, Food & Agriculture...
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Natural greenhouse gas sink is smaller than believed
Posted by Daily Independent: None Given on January 17th, 2011
Daily Independent: An international team of scientists has uncovered an important part of the global greenhouse gas budget. This new analysis indicates that greenhouse gas uptake by continents is less optimistic than previously thought.
The balance between carbon uptake by continents and their emissions of greenhouse gases is important because it indicates how much continents can compensate for human emissions of CO2 to the atmosphere.
Past analyses of carbon and greenhouse gas exchanges on continents have failed...