Interview with R. A. Houghton, Deputy Director and Senior Scientist and Alessandro Baccini, Assistant Scientist

New carbon flux numbers show that tropical deforestation contributes roughly 10% of annual global CO2 emissions. Uncertainty in these rates is influenced by deforestation & carbon stocks. The datasets reduce carbon stock uncertainty by capturing variability in carbon stocks across the landscape.

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Interview with Rebecca Nadin of British Council

Understanding the importance and role of journalists, faith leaders, youth and women in breaking down barriers to successfully communicating climate change issues.

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Interview with Geoffrey Evans of Humane Society International

Animal agriculture is a key target for reductions because the sector is one of the largest anthropogenic GHG sources.
However, policies that seek to concentrate and intensify animal production in an attempt to make the sector more GHG efficient must also be evaluated for their other societal impacts, including animal welfare.

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Interview with Janot Mendler, Consultant for Global Forum and Oceans, Coast and Islands

Pivotal role of the oceans in regulating climate. New science on significance of coastal ecosystems as nature’s most efficient carbon storage mechanism.
Inadequacy of accounting for both impacts of climate change on coastal people and importance of both adaptation and mitigation finance for nature-based solutions.

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Interview with Monica Simons of International Council for Adult Education 

In Cancun, ICAE together with its Gender and Education Office, the Organisation of the 2nd International Journey on Environmental Education towards Rio92+20 and the Feminist Task Force of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty will present a workshop to debate proposals with participants on how to build more harmonic relations between communities and the environment, as a democratic way to revert the climate changes resulting from the current economic model.

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Interview with David Renne, President, International Solar Energy Society

ISES is an UN-accredited membership society dedicated to developing and disseminating scientific and technical information on renewable energy technologies. Through its education, outreach, and communication activities ISES is working towards a rapid transition to a world powered by renewable energy by the middle of this century.

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Interview with Prof. Konrad Osterwalder, Under Secretary General and Rector of the United Nations University

The United Nations University (UNU) is the academic arm of the United Nations (UN). Its goal is to develop sustainable solutions for current and future problems of humankind in all aspects of life. Through a problem-oriented and interdisciplinary approach it aims at applied research and education on a global scale.
 
All the Institutes work matters very strongly related to climate change, such as water issues, desertification, environmental migration, Indigenous Knowledge etc. It can therefore greatly accomplish the need of applied and policy relevant research in the UNFCCC process.
 
The Interview should address why do we need an UN University on top of many Universities world wide? What is the added value and which gap is the UN University filling?

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Interview with Donna Goodman, Executive Director Earth Child Institute and Vanessa Angelina, Youth Partner from Dominican Republic

The interview explores the potential impact of the world’s 2.2 billion people under the age of 18, to re-forest the Earth and re-organize sustainable social change through child and youth-led environmental local actions for global change.

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Interview with Isabelle Coche, Farming First spokesperson from CropLife International

Agriculture is a necessary yet significant source of greenhouse gases, yet the world’s farmers can also be an important part of the climate solution. Farming First urges climate negotiators to approve an agricultural work programme even if a more comprehensive deal is not reached in Cancun.

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Interview with Dr. Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Farming First spokesperson and Chief Executive of the Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Network (FANRPAN)

African farmers are already under threat by climate change. Yet Africa can still become the world’s breadbasket if its farmers embrace a “Green and Rainbow” revolution, whereby crops, livestock, fisheries and forests are managed as integrated landscapes to boost production sustainably.

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Interview with Martin Wagner, Managing Attorney, International Program, Earthjustice

The profound effects of climate change on individuals and communities is the greatest current threat to the full enjoyment of human rights around the world. A rights-based approach to climate change can help create solutions and protect the most vulnerable.

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Interview with Tony Haymet, PhD DSc Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

New science is making “top-down” verification of green house gas emissions a reality in next 3 years.

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Interview with Lorena Aguilar Senior Global Gender Advisor, IUCN

Women in REDD+ is an initiative launched in Cancun comprising IUCN, Wocan and the Women's Environment and Development Organization (WEDO). The overall objectives of the Initiative are to: a. Ensure that global and national REDD+ efforts are gender responsive; b. Leverage women’s leadership to mitigate the effects of climate change; c. Align with sustainable development goals; and d. Alleviate poverty.

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 Interview with Atiq Kainan Ahmed, Plan Asia Climate Change and DRR Advisor and Mercedes Garcia, El Salvador DRR Advisor

Plan International’s participation in Cancun 2010 continues Plan’s work highlighting the importance of children within CC debates and strategies at previous annual climate conferences including Copenhagen, Poznan and Bali.

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Interview with Meine van Noordwijk, Principal Scientist and Chief Science Advisor, World Agroforestry Centre

Balancing the roles of agriculture and forestry in climate change mitigation and adaptation, food security and poverty alleviation is a key condition for any initiative in developing countries. Hence understanding the trade-offs between these functions is extremely important for creating win-win strategies and opportunities. Landscape approaches aim at balancing incentives for commodities and those for maintenance of assets and services. It focuses on how interactions between forests and agriculture impact on commodities and services including climate change adaptation functions and carbon. pproaches for carbon accounting and associated service and commodity co benefits are also an integral part of whole landscape approaches. Emerging evidence and good practice in Asia, Africa and Latin America will be highlighted.

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