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 [...]
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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 »
Meeting: Second World Agroforestry Congress
Posted in carbon trading, global, recent research, unep on 22 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The World Agroforestry Centre and the United Nations Environment Programme co-hosted the 2nd World Congress of Agroforestry in Nairobi, Kenya from 23-28 August 2009.
The overall theme of the Congress was Agroforestry, the future of global land use. The sub-themes were Food Security and Livelihoods; Conservation and Rehabilitation of Natural Resources; and Policies and Institutions. Researchers, [...]
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: FCPF approves R-Plans for Guyana and Panama
Posted in funding, latin america, news items, world bank on 29 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With the approval of the readiness plans for Guyana and Panama, the World Bank moves its Forest Carbon Partnership Facility forward despite civil society protests World Bank Information Center, 29 June 2009
The third meeting of the Participants Committee (PC) of the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) was held in Montreaux, Switzerland, from 15-18 [...]
Briefings: FERN report on effects of carbon trading on forest
Posted in carbon trading, global, ngos on 15 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Counting the cost, forest credits and their effect on carbon markets by Kate Dooley, Forests and the European Union Resource Network (FERN), Avoiding Deforestation and Degradation Briefing Note 6, June 2009
This 6 page briefing note looks at recent research into the impact of trading forest carbon credits on carbon markets, and the subsequent effect on [...]
Green Coalition: Climate pact must halt deforestation and industrial logging of old-growth forests
Posted in global, news items, ngos on 10 June 2009 | Leave a Comment »
June 2009 Coalition Statement at the Bonn Climate Talks
A broad coalition of activist groups released a consensus statement at the U.N. climate talks in Bonn Germany stating that a global framework on climate change must immediately halt deforestation and industrial logging of the world’s old-growth forests, while protecting the rights of forest communities and indigenous [...]
Forests Dialogue Report on REDD Finance Mechanisms
Posted in assessment, global, ngos, recent research, vulnerability on 30 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dialogue on REDD Finance Mechanisms The Forests Dialogue’s consensus-based Statement on Forests and Climate Change
Beginning in December 2007, The Forests Dialogue (TFD) has led a multi-stakeholder dialogue process focused on developing a clear, unified message and common set of principles illustrating the factors and conditions necessary to maximize forests and people’s ability to mitigate and [...]
Briefing: FERN and RFF submission to UNFCCC on indigenous peoples rights and climate
Posted in assessment, global, ngos, vulnerability on 20 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Views on issues relating to indigenous peoples and local communities for the development and application of methodologies Submission of FERN and Rainforest Foundation UK to the UNFCCC
Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), 15 February 2009
The submission by FERN and Rainforest Foundation UK to the UNFCCC SBSTA on indigenous peoples rights and climate. spells [...]
Report: FERN/Forest Peoples Report on Poznan
Posted in assessment, global, ngos on 20 January 2009 | Leave a Comment »
FERN/Forest Peoples Programme Special Report on Poznan Forest Watch Issue 134, January 2009
This two-page summary by FERN outlines the climate change discussions at the 14th Conference of the Parties (COP14) of the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It covers various stages in the drafting process for the COP decisions, interventions by NGOs and Indigenous [...]
CIFOR book: Moving Ahead with REDD – issues, options and implications
Posted in assessment, cifor, global, vulnerability on 30 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Moving Ahead with REDD: issues, options and implications A Angelson (editor), Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia, 2008.
This CIFOR publication discusses questions relevant to creating mechanisms that fully exploit the potential of REDD and their implications for the design of global REDD architecture.
Chapter 11 by David Brown, Frances Seymour and Leo Peskett [...]
