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 [...]
Research: Life as Commerce
Posted in biodiversity, carbon trading, funding, indicators, recent research, stewardship, vulnerability on 26 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Life as Commerce: the impact of market-based conservation on Indigenous Peoples, local communities and women
Global Forest Coalition, CENSAT Agua Viva, COECOCEIBA,
EQUATIONS, Alter Vida, the Timberwatch Coalition, October 2008.
“Life as Commerce” features case studies from India, Costa Rica, South Africa, Paraguay and Colombia about the impact of market-based conservation mechanisms like ecotourism, forest certification, biodiversity offsets [...]
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: Forest Peoples’ Rights Key To Reducing Emissions From Deforestation
Posted in biodiversity, carbon trading, funding, global, incentives, news items, stewardship on 20 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
News: Forest Peoples’ Rights Key To Reducing Emissions From Deforestation
ScienceDaily | 20 October 2008
Unless based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples and forest communities, efforts by rich countries to combat climate change by funding reductions in deforestation in developing countries will fail, and could even unleash a devastating wave of forest loss, cultural [...]
News: Reduce emissions by investing in forest peoples
Posted in carbon trading, funding, global, incentives, news items, recent research, vulnerability on 17 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pay indigenous people to protect rainforests, conservation groups urge
The Guardian [UK] | 17 October 2008
Rich countries should try to cut the greenhouse gas emissions caused by deforestation by first investing in the people who live and use forests, rather than relying on the financial carbon markets to encourage conservation, leading development experts have proposed.
If not, [...]
Research: The Eliasch Review – Financing Global Forests
Posted in assessment, carbon trading, funding, global, incentives, recent research on 15 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Climate Change: Financing Global Forests [The Eliasch Review] 14 October 2008
The Eliasch Review is an independent report prepared by Johan Eliasch, a businessman appointed by UK prime minister Gordon Brown to be his special adviser on forests, with the support of the Office of Climate Change. The Review aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of [...]
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: UN-REDD Programme launched
Posted in fao, funding, global, news items, un-redd, undp on 24 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New UN scheme seeks to combat climate change from deforestation
United Nations | 24 September 2008
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced a pioneering initiative aimed at combating climate change through creating incentives to reverse the trend of deforestation, at an unveiling with Prime Minister of Norway Jens Stoltenberg.
The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation [...]
