{"id":33068,"date":"2011-12-08T15:21:11","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T15:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=33068"},"modified":"2011-12-08T15:21:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T15:21:11","slug":"5th-december-2011-cop-17-update-forests-famine-and-climate-change-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=33068","title":{"rendered":"5th December 2011 COP 17 update: Forests, Famine and Climate Change Adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2011 has been the International Year of forests. Sunday, 4<sup>th<\/sup> December was the official \u2018Forest day\u2019 at this year\u2019s UN 17th Conference of the Party (COP 17) in Durban, South Africa. Co-hosted by the Government of South Africa, the Centre for International Forest Research (CIFOR), and the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), Forest Day 5 was convened under the theme \u201cFrom Policy to Practice,\u201d with a special focus on the role of African forests in mitigating and adapting to climate change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the forum, Emmanuel Ze Meka, Executive Director, International Tropical Timber Organization, said REDD+ offers a number of co-benefits when implemented, but noted that the funding source for REDD+ still needs to be addressed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At a parallel civil society \u2018fake forest day\u2019 event held at the University of Kwazulu-Natal, Blessings Karumbiza of Timberwatch explained that only 3 African nations had ombudsmen looking at the Environment, thus unfortunately it was still not a priority for many African nations.\u00a0Scientists, researchers, activists, representatives from non-governmental and indigenous people\u2019s organizations called for caution toward REDD+ Initiatives.\u00a0They emphasized that plantations of exotic trees could not replace the environmental benefits of indigenous forests in regulation of climate and rainfall patterns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both forums provided useful opportunities for Wetlands International Africa to share its experience in mangrove replanting across the coast of West Africa an important weapon in combating climate change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Solidarity event was held to honor the life and legacy of the late Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai.\u00a0The Green Belt Movement, introduced a short film paying tribute to the late Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Wangari Maathai, and announced the launch of the \u201cI am the Hummingbird Campaign\u201d in her memory.<\/p>\n<p><em>wetlands.org<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<em><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011 has been the International Year of forests. Sunday, 4th December was the official \u2018Forest day\u2019 at this year\u2019s UN 17th Conference of the Party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,751,1],"tags":[1897,11014,11015,11016],"class_list":["post-33068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-global-news","category-uncategorized","tag-environment","tag-forest","tag-mangroves","tag-wetlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}