CARE International and the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) will present their draft REDD + Social and Environmental Standards (REDD + SE) at a side event during COP-15 hosted by the government of Nepal. REDD + SE aims to help governments institute equitable REDD programs on a national level. The joint CARE/CCBA initiative has [...]
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CCB: REDD + Social and Environmental Standards
Posted in global, ngos, vulnerability on 30 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CBD/GTZ booklet: Biodiversity, Livelihoods and REDD Benefits
Posted in biodiversity, cbd, global on 29 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
German Development Cooperation (GTZ) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat has launched a new guide on Biodiversity and Livelihoods: REDD Benefits.
This brochure provides a wide array of tools and examples on how measures and policies can be shaped to simultaneously address climate change, biodiversity loss and poverty. It provides a basic introduction [...]
CBD/IUCN: Good Practice Guide on Forest Livelihoods
Posted in biodiversity, cbd, global, ngos, stewardship on 29 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have launched a new Good Practice Guide on Sustainable Forest Management: Biodiversity and Livelihoods. This booklet is part of a series of Good Practice Guides produced by the CBD. It provides a range of case studies and other materials to make [...]
CTW: Carbon Trading – How It Works and Why It Fails
Posted in carbon trading, global, ngos on 28 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Carbon Trading – How it Works and Why It Fails, Tamra Gilbertson and Oscar Reyes, Critical Currents no. 7, November 2009
Carbon Trade Watch has released a new publication by Tamra Gilbertson and Oscar Reyes that outlines the limitations of an approach to tackling climate change which redefines the problem to fit the assumptions of neoliberal [...]
UNEP: Bio-Cultural Community Protocols
Posted in biodiversity, global, recent research, stewardship, unep, vulnerability on 20 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
BioCultural Community Protocols: A Community Approach to Ensuring the Integrity of Environmental Law and Policy
Kabir Bavikatte & Harry Jonas (Eds.), Natural Justice and UNEP, November 2009.
This book illustrates the application of bio-cultural community protocols to a range of environmental legal frameworks. Part I focuses on the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and access and [...]
New tool: Global forest monitoring
Posted in fao, global, news items on 23 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the first time worldwide, free & ready-to-use high-resolution satellite data is now available to monitor forests & help reduce emissions from deforestation & forest degradation. The monitoring system has been launched by FAO and other partners as part of the Global Forest Resources Assessment. The monitoring system delivers data in a global sample grid [...]
Meeting: UN-REDD Programme Asia and Pacific indigenous consultations
Posted in asia, global, news items, pacific islands, un-redd on 17 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The October issue of the UN-REDD Programme newsletter, featuring news on: five new countries that joined the UN-REDD Programme; the first regional consultation between indigenous peoples’ organizations from Asia and the Pacific and the UN-REDD Programme; and the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s request for funding of a Congo Basin approach for monitoring, reporting and [...]
TFD Report: Investing in REDD-plus
Posted in global, ngos, recent research on 3 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More than 100 stakeholders have been involved in a collaborative initiative facilitated by The Forests Dialogue (TFD) to build an effective international mechanism for tackling the climate, community and biodiversity issues associated with deforestation. The publication “Investing in REDD-plus” reflects unique consensus amongst forest stakeholders across business, environmental and scientific sectors and from indigenous [...]
News: Indigenous representatives on UN-REDD Policy Board
Posted in global, news items, un-redd on 2 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
After being nominated and self-selected by civil society organizations (CSOs) worldwide, the CSO representatives to the UN-REDD Policy Board were announced to be: Pacifique Mukumba Isumbisho, Support Center for Indigenous Pygmies and Vulnerable Minorities; Effrey Dademo, the Papua New Guinea Eco-Forestry Forum; Paula Moreira, Amazon Environmental Research Institute; and Rosalind Reeve, Global Witness.
One full member [...]
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 [...]
