In this section you will find updates from the meeting, interviews with some of the participants and IUCN's press releases.
News from Bangkok
Insider's view: Bangkok part 2
The latest from IUCN's expert Claire Parker on the state of negotiations. …
06 Oct 2009 | News story
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Bangkok must listen, says IUCN
IUCN Daily Media Statement: Some 450 million people live in and around Asia-Pacific forests. Their engagement is critical in the success of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degredation (REDD), which also includes conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhacement of forest carbon stocks (REDD+). Saving the world’s remaining forests must be part of any climate change deal that moves on from Bangkok to Copenhagen. …
06 Oct 2009 | News story
Indigenous peoples must be part of climate solution
IUCN Daily Media Statement: Climate change impacts are already a realitiy for indigenous peoples. In many cases, their very survival is put at risk. High dependence on nature, the occupation of marginal lands, and a fragile situation in socio-economic and political terms make indigenous peoples especially vulnerable to climate change and extreme natural phenomena. …
05 Oct 2009 | News story
Insider's view: Bangkok opening days
Bangkok: Part 1. IUCN's climate change expert Claire Parker gives her view on the opening days of the meeting. …
05 Oct 2009 | News story
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Defending against climate change – just down the road from UN meeting
It’s hard to believe that just a few hours' drive from Bangkok, where a key UN meeting on climate change recently took place, the impacts of climate change on coastal communities can be seen so clearly. …
05 Oct 2009 | Audio
Conservation of world’s forests key to planet’s survival
With only two months to go before a new climate deal is negotiated in Copenhagen, The Forests Dialogue calls on industrialized nations to ensure robust financial commitments for conservation and sustainable management of forests and on tropical countries to ensure that these new financial streams are fairly shared with forest dependant communities. … | French | Spanish
01 Oct 2009 | International news release
The reality of REDD and the way forward
Reduced Emisions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) is an effective way to achieve a green economy. What needs to be done for REDD to work and to be sustainable? …
01 Oct 2009 | Audio
Forests, people and climate change: the REDD solution
Major reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions are necessary if we are to avoid disastrous climate change. Given that deforestation and forest degradation account for up to 17% of man-made global greenhouse gas emissions, conservation and sustainable management of forests is a good place to start. …
01 Oct 2009 | News story
REDD needs more private sector involvement
Until now most of the work on REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation) is being led by the public sector and non-governmental organizations in particular. This has to change, according to Chris Knight, of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, who is involved in The Forests Dialogue, which IUCN helped develop. He says that REDD might not work if it is developed without significant input from the private sector. …
01 Oct 2009 | Audio
Russia's forests examined
Andrey Laletin, of the Global Forest Coalition in Russia, gives the latest lowdown on the forest situation in Russia and explains that the main problem they face is forest degradation. He says a positive result of the global financial and economic crisis is that logging companies don't have the funds to build new infrastructure into remote forests, such as roads, rendering swathes of forest in Siberia, for example, inaccessible. …
01 Oct 2009 | Audio
