Why is FFI in Copenhagen?
What’s at stake? The core of the Copenhagen United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting will be to agree a framework for post-2012 emissions reductions. Scientific consensus, through the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), is that the targets for these reductions will need to be much higher than those incorporated in the existing Kyoto framework if we are to avoid “dangerous climate change”. Given the needs for such significant cuts in emissions, and recognising the contribution of deforestation to annual carbon emissions of around 20%, the case for including Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation or REDD-type mechanisms into the post-2012 framework is clear to many from both the developed and the developing world. Sharing our knowledge As the world’s longest established international conservation organisation, FFI has unprecedented experience of making habitat protection work on the ground. We have been involved in the succes
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