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 »
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, [...]
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: Achieving benefits beyond carbon
Posted in carbon trading, global, incentives, news items on 27 October 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Jeff Hayward: Quantifying Carbon, Communities, and More
Ecosystem Marketplace | 27 October 2008
The debate over Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) hinges on how to verify the amount of carbon captured in trees and how to determine whether the actions being paid for actually cause a net capture of carbon. It’s sticky territory that the [...]
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 [...]
Research: Making REDD work for the Poor
Posted in carbon trading, funding, incentives, recent research on 10 September 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Making REDD work for the Poor Leo Peskett, David Huberman, Evan Bowen-Jone, Guy Edwards and Jessica Brown
Poverty Environment Partnership, September 2008
Poor forest-dependent communities figure significantly in various REDD proposals, which, as a recent Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP) paper explains, “are all based on the idea that developed countries would pay developing countries to reduce rates [...]
News: New proposal for compensation from the Terrestrial Carbon Group
Posted in carbon trading, incentives, recent research on 3 August 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New plan would pay tropical countries for saving forests, regardless of level of threat
MongaBay | 24 July 2008
BRAZIL: Deforestation and forest degradation account for around a fifth of global carbon emissions from human activities, but new policy measures are focusing reducing such emissions as a cost-effective way to fight global warming. While the concept of [...]
Research: PNAS study finds carbon trading not helpful to biodiversity
Posted in biodiversity, incentives, north america, recent research on 31 July 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Carbon payments may not protect biodiversity
EurekaAlert | 7 July 2008
USA: Paying rural landowners in Oregon’s Willamette Basin to protect at-risk animals won’t necessarily mean that their newly conserved trees and plants will absorb more carbon from the atmosphere and vice versa, a new study has found. The study “Efficiency of Incentives to Jointly Increase Carbon [...]
