El Congreso tiene en agenda una autógrafa de ley que pretende modificar la Ley Forestal y de Fauna Silvestre con el fin de eliminar requisitos que protegen la integridad de los bosques amazónicos y otorgar más competencias al Ministerio de Desarrollo Agrario y Riego (Midagri) sobre el Ministerio de Ambiente (Minam). Este último sector es actualmente quien establece los bosques de producción permanente y los usos en el suelo de ecosistemas frágiles como la Amazonía.

Written by  Eka Nozadze and Erekle Shubitidze for Georgia Today. Originally posted at https://georgiatoday.ge/forest-fires-and-climate-change-in-georgia-potential-ways-forward/

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as the global pandemic, have diverted the world’s attention, and in general put climate change and the green economy onto the back burner of the political agenda.

This blog was written by Barbara Fraser and published by EarthBeat at: https://www.ncronline.org/earthbeat/politics/indigenous-peoples-lives-depend-their-lands-threats-are-growing-worldwide

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This blog was originally published at: https://www.evalforward.org/blog/participatory-evaluation-myanmar

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María Luisa Acosta

Coordinadora del Centro de Asistencia Legal a Pueblos Indígenas (CALPI)

Introducción 

About 350 land actors from government, academia, civil society and business came together from more than 15 states and outside India to discuss and debate various land issues. In more than 30 sessions, about 150 speakers and panelists deliberated over 3 days around interdisciplinary land-conversations to generate important information and evidence for policy, practice and academics.

Ten important land messages that emerge from these land conversations are:

Este mes, el presidente de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, propuso un nuevo proyecto de ley que promueve la minería, la agricultura ampliada y la producción de energía en tierras indígenas de la Amazonía. Por consiguiente, los promotores privados, así como los fondos de cobertura privados, ocuparán y desarrollarán las tierras que han sido el hogar de pueblos indígenas durante miles de años.

Mientras tanto, durante el primer año completo de Bolsonaro en el cargo, la deforestación aumentó en un 85%. Más información sobre este alucinante número a continuación.

In the last 15 years, Paraguay lost a greater share of its forest than almost any other country on Earth. While soy farming once drove deforestation in the east, the focus of Paraguay's forest loss has since moved west to the low-lying, thorn-forested Chaco, where cattle ranching has claimed over 3.7 million hectares (9 million acres) of forest for pastureland – an area about the size of the Netherlands – between 2001 and 2015.

Artículo de opinión de Silvia Morimoto, representante residente del PNUD en Paraguay.

Las estadísticas son alarmantes. Para 2050, el mundo requerirá un crecimiento estimado de 60 por ciento en la producción agrícola para satisfacer la demanda de alimentos de una población de cerca de 9.000 millones de personas.

Introduction

The Deforestation and Forest Degradation in the Amazon Biome map was produced by Imazon in order to contribute towards monitoring in the region. The methodology applied simultaneously generates mapping of deforestation and forest degradation [caused by logging activity and forest burning] using Landsat satellite images. Existing methods individually detect and map those processes, which can lead to overlaps in the results and increasing uncertainty in estimates of annual deforestation rates.

The 2015 U.N. climate change conference was a historic moment in which the world agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Through the Paris Agreement, parties consented to a long-term pathway of climate-resilient development.