Indigenous African leaders from East and Central Africa met in Bujumbura, Burundi to finalise a joint strategy and statement on climate change at a meeting funded by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation EU-ACP (CTA), as part of a five year programme to strengthen the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee (IPACC) indigenous [...]
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Meeting: African Indigenous forest leaders prepare for COP-15
Posted in africa, assessment on 17 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
News: UN-REDD and indigenous peoples’ engagement in Africa
Posted in africa, assessment, global, un-redd on 30 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The September issue of the UN Collaborative Programme on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD) Programme newsletter features news on the UN high-level event on forests and climate change, a commentary on REDD and indigenous peoples’ engagement in Africa, and reports on a technical meeting on forest degradation and a [...]
IIED Report: REDD and Payments for Ecosystem Services
Posted in africa, asia, assessment, carbon trading, global, iied, incentives, latin america, recent research on 22 September 2009 | 2 Comments »
Incentives to sustain forest ecosystem services: A review and lessons for REDD, Ivan Bond, Maryanne Grieg-Gran, Sheila Wertz-Kanounnikoff, Peter Hazlewood, Sven Wunder, Arild Angelsen. IIED (2009), 62 pages, isbn: 9781843697428
An assessment of the utility of payments for ecosystem services as a tool for REDD was commissioned by the Norwegian Minister for the Environment and International [...]
IIED Report: Novel approach to improving forest governance
Posted in africa, asia, assessment, iied, incentives on 31 August 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Evaluation of the work of the Forest Governance Learning Group 2005 – 2009 Tom Blomly, International Institute for Environment and Development, August 2009
Researchers working with forest community groups and policy makers in ten countries in Africa and Asia have developed a novel way to improve the flow of social and environmental benefits from tropical forests, [...]
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 [...]
News: 14 countries selected for WB REDD funds
Posted in africa, asia, latin america, world bank on 31 July 2008 | 1 Comment »
14 countries win REDD funding to protect tropical forests
MongaBay | 24 July 2008
Fourteen countries have been selected by the World Bank to receive funds for conserving their tropical forests under an innovative carbon finance scheme. The 14 developing countries include six in Africa (the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar); five in [...]
