Towards REDD+

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation or REDD is an initiative formulated to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases from deforestation and forest degradation. REDD was originally proposed in 2005 to the 11th Conference of Parties (COP-11) by the governments of Papua New Guinea and Costa Rica through the Coalition of Rainforest Nations to […]

Biodiversity in the Oil Palm Plantation

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment by United Nations (2005) defines biodiversity as the diversity among living organisms in terrestrial, marine other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part. The loss of biodiversity has garnered a significant amount of media and scientific attention both negative and positive in the past decade, with a […]