缅北强奸

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Halting deforestation: One piece of the climate mitigation puzzle

Monday, May 26, 2014 18:30to19:30
Centre Mont-Royal, 1000 Sherbrooke Street West (corner Mansfield), Montreal, Quebec, CA

Bilingual talk by Professor , 缅北强奸 Department of Biology. All are welcome to attend this unique public lecture, which is presented as part of the international conference .听

Professor Potvin specializes in tropical forest ecology and conservation. Tropical forests play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle and for species conservation. Besides that they are amazingly beautiful and express the full imagination of nature! For 20 years Dr. Potvin has been collaborating with and learning land use and reforestation practice from Panama鈥檚 indigenous people. This talk focusses on her laboratory鈥檚 work as a centre for 鈥淪cience for empowerment鈥. This approach to science builds on the notion of empowerment of all actors 鈥 from local communities to indigenous peoples and national governments. It follow very closely both the negotiations and the implementation of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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