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 [...]
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News: FCPF approves R-Plans for Guyana and Panama
Posted in funding, latin america, news items, world bank on 29 June 2009 | 1 Comment »
FERN-FPP report: Analysing R-PINS
Posted in funding, global, world bank on 25 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cutting corners: how the FCPF is failing forests and peoples Kate Dooley, Tom Griffiths, Helen Leake, Saskia Ozinga, FERN, November 2008
In December 2007 the World Bank launched its Forest Carbon Partnership Facility to act as a ‘catalyst’ to promote public and private investment in ‘REDD’ (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) and to support [...]
Research: AGF financing finds REDD compensation is a win-win instrument
Posted in funding, global, incentives, indicators, recent research, vulnerability, world bank on 5 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Financing Flows and Needs to Implement the Non-Legally Binding Instrument On All Types of Forests: A study prepared for the Advisory Group on Finance of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests with the support of the Program on Forests (PROFOR) of the World Bank, October 2008
Written by Markku Simula, this background paper was prepared for the [...]
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: Guyana President wants to change FCPF funding mechanism
Posted in carbon trading, caribbean, funding, world bank on 3 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Climate change aid bitter-sweet for Guyana says president
Caribbean Net News | 1 August 2008
GUYANA: Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo says he is pleased that Guyana is among 14 countries selected for financial aid for combating tropical deforestation and climate change from an initial US$82 million partnership. Guyana will receive the funding from the Forest Carbon Partnership [...]
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 [...]
News: IIED says WB should step back from GFP
Posted in recent research, world bank on 31 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
World Bank told to step back from forest reform
Carbon Positive | 16 July 2008
NETHERLANDS: Forestry experts agree on the need for a new global partnership to ensure sustainable forests initiatives deliver on environmental needs and work for the poor. But they say the World Bank, which last year proposed the collaboration, should not take an [...]
