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 »
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 [...]
Guest article: Nuku Alofa Declaration
Posted in guest article, pacific islands, stewardship, vulnerability on 16 September 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pacific Comments on REDD
Special guest article from Fiu Mata’ese Elisara/Executive Director of OLSSI, Samoa
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Introduction
Some 15 participants from Tonga, PNG, Solomon, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Cooks, Samoa, NZ and Australia attended a Pacific workshop on REDD held in Nukualofa USP Centre, Tonga, from 29 to 31 July 2009. Representing indigenous peoples, civil society, and governments, they also discussed [...]
DIE Discussion Paper: REDD from an integrated perspective
Posted in assessment, biodiversity, global, recent research, vulnerability on 30 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
REDD from an integrated perspective: Considering overall climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation and equity issues Lars Schmidt, Bonn, April 2009. Discussion Paper 4/2009, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, ISBN 978-3-88985-452-0
The discussion paper assesses selected options currently “on the table” in the international debate and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations on Reducing [...]
Forests Dialogue Report on REDD Finance Mechanisms
Posted in assessment, global, ngos, recent research, vulnerability on 30 April 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dialogue on REDD Finance Mechanisms The Forests Dialogue’s consensus-based Statement on Forests and Climate Change
Beginning in December 2007, The Forests Dialogue (TFD) has led a multi-stakeholder dialogue process focused on developing a clear, unified message and common set of principles illustrating the factors and conditions necessary to maximize forests and people’s ability to mitigate and [...]
Briefing: FERN and RFF submission to UNFCCC on indigenous peoples rights and climate
Posted in assessment, global, ngos, vulnerability on 20 February 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Views on issues relating to indigenous peoples and local communities for the development and application of methodologies Submission of FERN and Rainforest Foundation UK to the UNFCCC
Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), 15 February 2009
The submission by FERN and Rainforest Foundation UK to the UNFCCC SBSTA on indigenous peoples rights and climate. spells [...]
CIFOR book: Moving Ahead with REDD – issues, options and implications
Posted in assessment, cifor, global, vulnerability on 30 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Moving Ahead with REDD: issues, options and implications A Angelson (editor), Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Bogor, Indonesia, 2008.
This CIFOR publication discusses questions relevant to creating mechanisms that fully exploit the potential of REDD and their implications for the design of global REDD architecture.
Chapter 11 by David Brown, Frances Seymour and Leo Peskett [...]
FOE Report: REDD Myths
Posted in assessment, global, ngos, vulnerability on 29 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
REDD Myths: A critical review of proposed mechanisms to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries Friends of the Earth International, Issue 114, December 2008
Friends of the Earth International (FOE), an environmental activist group, announced its opposition to REDD via a report titled REDD Myths released at the UNFCCC talks in Poznan.
The [...]
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 [...]
