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 [...]
Meeting: African Indigenous forest leaders prepare for COP-15
Posted in africa, assessment on 17 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Guest Article: Update on Indigenous UNFCCC Preparations
Posted in global, guest article, policy issues on 10 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Update on Indigenous UNFCCC Preparations
Special guest article from Fiu Mata’ese Elisara/Executive Director of OLSSI, Samoa
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The few Pacific indigenous peoples’ representatives joined more than 200 of their indigenous brothers and sisters from around the world in Bangkok on Wednesday 07 October 2009 to call on all Parties to recognize and respect the inalienable collective rights over [...]
Guest article: Indigenous Peoples and REDD-Plus
Posted in global, guest article, policy issues on 6 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Indigenous Peoples and REDD-Plus
Special guest article from Fiu Mata’ese Elisara/Executive Director of OLSSI, Samoa
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In the Bangkok UNFCCC meetings held from 28 September to 9 October 2009, REDD Plus was been trashed by many indigenous peoples as a process aimed at
Reaping profits; from
Evictions, land grabs;
Deforestation; and
Destruction of biodiversity;
Plusthe involvement of Industrial Plantations, GMO Trees and Protected [...]
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 [...]
