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In the last 50 years the concentration of carbon dioxide increased 200 times more rapidly than in the last 650,000 years More than 50 specialists from 10 Latin American countries—including Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Guatemala, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru—met at the central headquarters of CATIE (Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center) in Turrialba, Costa Rica, to participate in the Introductory Course on Climate Change Mitigation through REDD, Reforestation and Forestation. The course, which was held from Jan. 28 to Jan. 30, introduced the topics of deforestation and forestry Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM). Participants included institutions such as Conservation International (CI), the Mexican Fund for National Conservation, Reforestemos México and others. The activity included presentations by outstanding international participants from institutions such as the World Bank, CI, the Institute for the Conservation and Sustainable Development of the Amazon (Spanish acronym IDESAM), the Andean Center for Environmental Economics (Spanish acronym CAEMA), and others.
According to Pedroni, the topic of emissions due to deforestation is of great importance to our countries, first because in most Latin American nations deforestation is the main source of emissions and secondly because a financial mechanism that pays incentives to stop deforestation is being negotiated internationally. Fernando
Ortiz, a participant from Conservation International Ecuador who is in
charge of the Galápagos program, said, “Through the program in the
Galápagos Islands we have just begun to explore the possibility of using
CDM as an alternative to be presented mainly to people in the tourism
sector, so that their commitment to the conservation of the islands will
become real.” He added, “For me, the topics addressed in this course are
extremely interesting and I hope to take maximum advantage of them.”
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