Brussels, 06/11/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 5 November, a climate project funded by the European Investment Bank in Peru (Madre de Dios) was granted an award by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change for its contribution to tackling climate change.
The project, known as “Tambopata REDD +”, aims to reduce emissions resulting from deforestation and the degradation of forests (REDD+ in the UN jargon). To achieve this, it has encouraged more than 1,000 farmers to...