http://rmportal.net Be sure and categorize your news items with the category: News: USAID NRMD Featured Stories. A portal librarian will review your content and categorization, and if appropriate, will publish within 24 hours. daily 1 2009-07-09T15:21:27Z http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-rmp-featured-stories/turning-point Worldwide, the use and management of natural resources and systems of trade and governance have been in flux for years. Yet 2011 may well be remembered as the year of definitive turning points: it was a year when the shift in global political and economic power to emerging economics became clear; it was a year when the conventional economic paradigm recognized the increasing scarcity of natural resources; and it was a year when it became clear that the national and global development requires respect for local people and their resources. No publisher webeditor USAID Rights and Resources Initiative Africa Forest News: USAID NRMD Featured Stories 2012-03-26T19:18:36Z File http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-rmp-featured-stories/copy_of_state-of-the-forest-carbon-markets-2009-taking-root-branching-out To promote Forestry transparency and trustworthiness, Ecosystem Marketplace spent the past year speaking with more than 100 market participants – 65 of whom develop forest protection and restoration projects, primarily in rainforest nations, and 37 of whom act as intermediaries. These participants accounted for 230 projects generating credits across 40 countries over the past 20 years. The result is State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2009: Taking Root & Branching Out, which is being released with support from the World Bank BioCarbon Fund, Biological Capital, Ecosystem Restoration Associates, and Baker McKenzie, as well as funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development and the Surdna Foundation. This story was featured in News: USAID RM Portal Featured Stories on January 14, 2010. No publisher Mike Colby TransLinks Ecosystem Marketplace Carbon Markets News: USAID NRMD Featured Stories 2012-03-04T22:40:49Z File http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-rmp-featured-stories/the-threshold-of-sustainability-for-tourism-in-protected-areas-a-quick-guide-for-protected-area-managers-in-english-french-and-spanish This Quick Guide, now available in English, French, and Spanish in the style of the series under the Programme of Work on Protected Areas of the Convention on Biological Diversity, introduces a tourism management framework called the “threshold of sustainability.” It is designed to enable managers to take rapid action to mitigate the most critical threats related to tourism, while beginning to lay a solid financial foundation for tourism within protected areas. No publisher webeditor © 2012 ConserveOnline Quick Guide TNC News: USAID NRMD Featured Stories Sustainable Tourism 2012-02-09T04:33:56Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-rmp-featured-stories/a-greener-revolution-improving-productivity-and-increasing-food-security-by-enhancing-ecosystem-services PDF version of Part 2 of USAID’s 2011 Summer Seminar #2: July 13, 2011 No publisher mcolby USAID Food Security Livestock 2012-02-05T03:23:41Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-rmp-featured-stories/aggregator No publisher webeditor News: USAID NRMD Featured Stories 2012-02-06T04:48:08Z Collection http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-rmp-featured-stories/art-featured-stories-folder Folder containing items that were featured in the Featured Stories section of the RM Portal including Date Featured, Cover Art and the Link to the featured story. No publisher webeditor Dates Featured inside the RMPortal News: USAID NRMD Featured Stories 2012-02-08T05:37:55Z Folder http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-rmp-featured-stories/landscape-scale-conservation-in-the-congo-basin-lessons-learned-from-the-central-africa-regional-program-for-the-environment-carpe This publication is the second volume of CARPE Lessons Learned. The first volume was based on early experiences and constituted a preliminary assessment of the state of the environment in the region. Now, after more than ten years of CARPE implementation, it seemed timely to provide the conservation community with lessons learned concerning CARPE’s applied conservation approaches. Featured in News: USAID RM Portal, October 26, 2010. No publisher portaladmin Applied Conservation CARPE News: USAID NRMD Featured Stories 2012-02-06T05:06:27Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-rmp-featured-stories/management-expenses-of-environmental-funds-a-cost-review-of-eai-and-tfca-funds Through two Congressionally-authorized innovative debt relief programs, the 1991 Enterprises for the Americas Initiative (EAI) and the 1998 Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA), USAID and the Departments of State and Treasury have jointly overseen the creation and operation of dedicated “Funds” designed to collect and distribute debt relief proceeds as grants in support of environmental protection, child survival and child development, and tropical forest conservation activities. To date, twenty-three Fund accounts have been created in 17 countries. Direct management of each “Fund” is entrusted to an expressly created or previously existing private, non-profit entity. Direct oversight is assured by a dedicated governing body, which can be a Board, Council or “Oversight Committee” (OC). Featured in News: USAID RM Portal Featured Stories, November 17, 2010. No publisher portaladmin EAI TFCA News: USAID NRMD Featured Stories Environmental Funds Management 2012-02-06T05:11:14Z File http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-rmp-featured-stories/nested-approaches-to-redd-an-overview-of-issues-and-options Interest in “nested” approaches to REDD+ has grown steadily as policy makers, practitioners and investors seek to reconcile approaches to reducing, and rewarding, emissions reductions at different scales – national, subnational and project. The 16th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC in Cancun marked the UNFCCC’s formal acknowledgement of subnational approaches to REDD+ accounting and monitoring. National “readiness” processes for REDD+ in many countries explicitly seek to incorporate nested projects or demonstration activities, as do state or provincial mechanisms under the Governors´ Task Force on Climate and Forests. No publisher webeditor USAID TransLinks REDD News: USAID NRMD Featured Stories REDD+ 2012-03-04T09:19:53Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-rmp-featured-stories/seed-storage-sustains-future-farming New seed storage facility in Nangarhar offers a secure, clean place to preserve seeds No publisher librarian 2010-01-20T17:25:27Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-rmp-featured-stories/state-of-the-forest-carbon-markets-2009-taking-root-branching-out Companies that rescue and restore forests to earn money by capturing carbon in trees likely expanded their operations in 2009, despite the global recession and regulatory uncertainty, capping three years of accelerating growth, according to the first-ever global survey of emerging markets in forest carbon. No publisher webeditor Ecosystem Marketplace Carbon Markets 2012-02-05T03:22:34Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-rmp-featured-stories/world2019s-waters-choking-from-meat-consumption-and-other-human-activities Greater meat consumption and demand for fossil fuels worldwide cause increasingly more harmful algal blooms and dead zones in coastal and freshwater areas WRI News Posted: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 No publisher webeditor News: USAID NRMD Portal News 2012-01-30T00:05:01Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-rmp-featured-stories/announcing-9-usaid-funded-online-courses-on-sustainable-tourism-development A set of nine online courses have been developed to help stakeholders better understand how tourism can be developed sustainably, as a result of compiling the lessons and best practices from the USAID Global Sustainable Tourism Alliance (GSTA) program, and other tourism development experience. No publisher mcolby Fair Use Training Tourism News: USAID NRMD Featured Stories Sustainable Tourism 2012-01-27T03:54:54Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-rmp-featured-stories/social-and-biodiversity-impact-assessment-sbia-manual-and-associated-content-for-redd-projects The Climate, Community & Biodiversity (CCB) Standards, used to assess multiple benefits of the majority of forest carbon projects, provide robust standards; however, until now there has been limited guidance on how to undertake credible and cost-effective impact assessment. Forest Trends, the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA), Fauna & Flora International (FFI) and Rainforest Alliance have developed a user-friendly manual that enables land-based carbon project proponents to undertake cost-effective social and biodiversity impact assessment (SBIA). No publisher webeditor ©Copyright 2011 Conservation International and Forest Trends Association REDD Manual REDD+ Social and Biodiversity Impact Assessment SBIA News: USAID NRMD Featured Stories 2012-02-06T18:38:07Z News Item http://rmportal.net/news/news-usaid-rmp-featured-stories/katoomba-xvii-hanoi-1 Katoomba XVII - Hanoi No publisher webeditor REDD News: USAID NRMD Featured Stories PES 2012-02-03T04:55:07Z News Item