Introduction

Hello,

This is just a small introduction on the purpose of this blog.
A few months ago we, the student of Tropical Forestry at the Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Science, were offered by the Global Forest Coalition (http://www.globalforestcoalition.org) to attend, as representatives of GFC, the Global Climate Change summit in Copenhagen (COP15) from 9december till 12december.
This is where they will accept, or at least try to accept, a new policy programme on how to stop Global Climate Change.
One of the possible solutions could be REDD(+), Reducing Emission from Deforestation and forest Degradation (and forest Enhancement is what the plus stands for). Deforestation and forest Degradation plays a larger part in carbon emission, their share in it is far larger than the share of the global transportation sector.
In Copenhagen the representatives, of the countries that are attending the summit, will also be discussing groundbreaking methods of alternative energy resources, such as: Wind power, Hydro energy, Solar energy, etc...

So, this is it for now. I will be keeping this blog up to date with a little help from Steffen Eberle. He is a German student that is in the fourth year of Tropical Forestry at Van Hall Larenstein. He will be joining us in Copenhagen and be conducting interviews with the indigenous people that will be there at the COP15 climate summit.

P.S.: For those who are interested in the REDD(+) programme I will be putting up a self-written document on that topic one of these days.