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  • id21 viewpoint - Tree plantations and climate change: avoiding responsibility in Ecuador

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    Community based

    Over 345 million hectares of land globally could be forested or re-forested to help combat global warming. The Kyoto Protocol, which sets targets for industrialised countries to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions, has established the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to support such initiatives. But do these programmes tackle the real causes of climate change?The CDM allows industrialised countries and organisations
    to fund projects in developing countries aiming to contribute to reducing GHG
    emissions. These projects are attractive to developing country governments because

  • Instituto Nacional De Investigaciones Agropecuarias

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    Ecuador
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    Sector(s) of expertise
    Agriculture
    Agriculture and forestry
    Early warning and Environmental assessment
    Forestry

    INIAP has the mission to improve sustainable agricultural production in Ecuador through scientific research, the development, validation, and transference of innovative technologies.

  • Sustainable Mountain Development

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    The present report was prepared in response to General Assembly resolution 64/205, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary-General to report to it at its sixty-sixth session on the status of sustainable development in mountain regions.