Jeff Hayward: Quantifying Carbon, Communities, and More
Ecosystem Marketplace | 27 October 2008
The debate over Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) hinges on how to verify the amount of carbon captured in trees and how to determine whether the actions being paid for actually cause a net capture of carbon. It’s sticky territory that the [...]
Archive for October, 2008
News: Achieving benefits beyond carbon
Posted in carbon trading, global, incentives, news items on 27 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Research: Life as Commerce
Posted in biodiversity, carbon trading, funding, indicators, recent research, stewardship, vulnerability on 26 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Life as Commerce: the impact of market-based conservation on Indigenous Peoples, local communities and women
Global Forest Coalition, CENSAT Agua Viva, COECOCEIBA,
EQUATIONS, Alter Vida, the Timberwatch Coalition, October 2008.
“Life as Commerce” features case studies from India, Costa Rica, South Africa, Paraguay and Colombia about the impact of market-based conservation mechanisms like ecotourism, forest certification, biodiversity offsets [...]
News: USD $1million to forest-dependent indigenous peoples from FCPF
Posted in funding, global, news items, world bank on 24 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
High Demand Prompts Forest Carbon Partnership Facility to Expand Beyond Original 20 Developing Countries
World Bank | 24 October 2008
With more than 40 developing countries asking to become part of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, the FCPF has announced that it aims to expand its expected number of developing country participants from 20 countries to 30. [...]
News: The need for national baselines
Posted in assessment, news items, ngos on 24 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Key Issues in REDD Baselines and Monitoring
Rights and Climate Meeting | 23 October 2008
During the Rights, Forests and Climate Change meeting currently being held in Oslo, Phil Shearman, PhD, from the Remote Sensing Centre at the University of Papua New Guinea, raises three developing issues in regard to the technical aspects of baseline setting and [...]
Research: International Forestry Review – Special Issue
Posted in global, policy issues, recent research on 21 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
International Forestry Review – Special Issue: REDD and the Evolution of an International Forest Regime Issue 3, October 2008
This special issue of IFR includes the following articles:
Summary of the Proceedings of the International Workshop “The International Regime, Avoided Deforestation and the Evolution of Public and Private Policies Towards Forests in Developing Countries” A. Karsently, S. [...]
News: Forest Peoples’ Rights Key To Reducing Emissions From Deforestation
Posted in biodiversity, carbon trading, funding, global, incentives, news items, stewardship on 20 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
News: Forest Peoples’ Rights Key To Reducing Emissions From Deforestation
ScienceDaily | 20 October 2008
Unless based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples and forest communities, efforts by rich countries to combat climate change by funding reductions in deforestation in developing countries will fail, and could even unleash a devastating wave of forest loss, cultural [...]
News: Reduce emissions by investing in forest peoples
Posted in carbon trading, funding, global, incentives, news items, recent research, vulnerability on 17 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pay indigenous people to protect rainforests, conservation groups urge
The Guardian [UK] | 17 October 2008
Rich countries should try to cut the greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation by first investing in the people who live and use forests, rather than relying on the financial carbon markets to encourage conservation, leading development experts have proposed.
If not, [...]
News: CBD launches Biodiversity and REDD newsletter
Posted in biodiversity, news items on 16 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
REDD e-newsletter
CBD Secretariat | 1 October 2008
The CBD Secretariat is publishing a bi-monthly e-Newsletter to inform CBD National Focal Points and other interested recipients about biodiversity aspects in relation to Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). The first edition (October 2008) contains news items, calls for contributions on climate standards and upcoming meetings.
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Research: The Eliasch Review – Financing Global Forests
Posted in assessment, carbon trading, funding, global, incentives, recent research on 15 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Climate Change: Financing Global Forests [The Eliasch Review] 14 October 2008
The Eliasch Review is an independent report prepared by Johan Eliasch, a businessman appointed by UK prime minister Gordon Brown to be his special adviser on forests, with the support of the Office of Climate Change. The Review aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of [...]
News: Forest Dwellers Demand Role in REDD at IUCN Congress
Posted in africa, asia, carbon trading, funding, latin america, news items on 7 October 2008 | 1 Comment »
As Donors Rush to Conserve Tropical Forests to Slow Climate Change, Indigenous Leaders Predict ‘Devastation’ from Carbon Grabs in Name of Conservation
Forest Peoples Programme | 7 October 2008
As wealthy nations prepare to ramp up climate change investments in forest-rich, low-income countries, a leading group of tropical forest leaders and conservation experts warns that the world’s [...]
