REDD+ Funds slow to spend money

"Forestry needs to spend international funding more quickly, efficiently"

A recent CIFOR blog addresses the need for FCPF and UN REDD to spend their monies quicker. The blog notes that relatively little of the funds already approved and available for REDD+ are having a hard time getting resources to forest communities and governments that need the incentives. Read the blog, which is hyperlinked in the blog title.

NYT reporting US House cuts REDD+, adaptation, clean tech & IPCC funding

NYT is reporting the US House of Representatives has cut the administration's FY 2011 request for climate change programs run by the world bank to $0. These cuts include:

$95m for REDD

$400 m for clean tech

$90 for adaptation.

The White House request for supporting the IPCC was also cut from $2.3 million to $0.