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19.02.12 |
Managing forest resources for sustainable development |
An evaluation of the World Bank Group's experience - approach paper
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19.02.12 |
Insights from the Field: Forests for Climate and Timber |
he Carbon Canopy is a novel partnership among companies, landowners, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that seeks to leverage markets for ecosystem services to increase the area of southern U.S. forests certified as sustainably managed. The partnership aspires to sustain southern forests for... |
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19.02.12 |
Stacking Ecosystem Services Payments: Risks and Solutions |
Healthy ecosystems provide many services to society, including water filtration, biodiversity habitat protection, and carbon sequestration. A number of incentive programs and markets have arisen to pay landowners for these services, raising questions about how landowners can receive multiple... |
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19.02.12 |
Report of the State Level Workshop on Decentralised Forest Governance: Beyond JFM |
This publication is the report of the workshop titled “Decentralised Forest Governance: Beyond JFM” held on 14-15th October, 2011 in Bhubaneswar, India. The objectives of the workshop were:
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06.02.12 |
Pro-poor benefit distribution in REDD+ |
Ensuring the poor or the most vulnerable sections of society benefit from REDD+ is key mainly to build both national and international legitimacy, and foster successful delivery of conservation and social objectives.
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30.01.12 |
'Peak timber' concerns in tropics |
(BBC) - Current tropical timber practices are not sustainable and nations should consider the "implications of 'peak timber'", a study has suggested.
A team of researchers says the standard cutting cycle of 30-40 years is too short to allow trees to grow to a volume required by... |
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29.01.12 |
SAB responds to EPA's biogenic emissions framework |
The U.S. EPA’s Science Advisory Board (SAB) has issued a draft report response to the EPA’s Accounting Framework for Biogenic CO2 Emissions from Stationary Sources. The framework was first issued by the EPA in September.
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28.01.12 |
CP17/CMP7 Durban Debrief |
The 17th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (CP17) and 7th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP7) held in Durban, South Africa, from 28th November to 11th December 2011 each produced landmark decisions.
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23.01.12 |
New brochure focuses on EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) |
The latest brochure in EFI’s Making a Difference: From Science to Policy series is now available! It focuses on EFI’s work coordinating the EUTR Support Study project, which investigated the most effective ways of meeting various requirements of the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR).
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19.01.12 |
Proposals from the Private Sector for Engagement at Scale in REDD+ |
In response to requests by senior representatives of leading companies, this project of the World Economic Forum aims to identify opportunities for greater engagement and investment in REDD+ activities for the private sector across the value chain, including by addressing drivers of deforestation.... |
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19.01.12 |
Engaging the Private Sector in the Potential Generation of REDD+ Carbon Credits : An Analysis of Issues |
Climate Focus led a team of experts to analyze opportunities for involving the private sector in the generation of REDD+ credits for the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
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19.01.12 |
Study on REDD-plus Related Activities by Japan |
This presentation was made on 10th April, 2011 at the REDD+ Partnership meeting and workshop held in Bangkok, Thailand. The presentation discusses Japan’s involvement in REDD+ activities.
Please click here to download from REDD+ Partnership website.
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19.01.12 |
Suriname unjustly sullied by alleged forestry swindle – official |
According to Pearl Jules, head of the Forestry and Forest Supervision Foundation (SBB), internationally, the impression is unjustly created that Suriname has allowed that investors on the Canadian trade fair have been swindled for millions of US dollars by the Chinese/Canadian timber multinational... |
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18.01.12 |
Talking REDD+: beyond forestry – joining up and moving forward |
On Sunday 27 November 2011, the eve of the 17th conference of the parties to the UNFCCC (COP17), the International Institute for Environment and Development, together with its partners, hosted a South-South learning event, ‘REDD+, poverty reduction and sustainable development: are there cost-... |
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18.01.12 |
Project Developer’s Guidebook to VCS REDD Methodologies |
The purpose of this guidebook is to assist project developers in evaluating and selecting those VCS approved methodology(ies) that are best suited to account for the greenhouse gas benefits of their proposed REDD project activities. It contains a summary of VCS requirements applicable to all REDD... |
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17.01.12 |
REDD+ and Agricultural Supply Chains |
Agriculture is the main driver of deforestation in many countries and therefore is intrinsically connected to REDD+. Public-private partnerships in and around supply chains can generate emission reductions from REDD+ while also helping developing countries improve the sustainability of their... |
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06.01.12 |
Evaluating the Capacity of Forest Governance System for Effective and Efficient REDD-plus Policies in the State of Pahang, Peninsular Malaysia |
REDD-plus is one of the most important policy tools for promoting sustainable forest management, especially in tropical countries where significantly large net losses of forest area have been observed in recent years. Malaysia is considered as a potential participant country in REDD-plus project... |
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06.01.12 |
Green India Mission: India’s REDD+ Action Plan |
Government of India announced it’s first ever National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) in June 2008 to identify measures and steps to advance climate change-related actions in its domestic sphere. One of the eight missions is the Green India Mission (GIM), which was ‘launched to... |
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28.12.11 |
Alternatives to carbon markets to finance REDD |
At the beginning of the UN climate negotiations in Durban (COP17), FERN published a short report looking at carbon markets as a means of financing REDD. The briefing, which was signed on to by 28 organisations explains why carbon markets will not deliver for southern governments, forests and people... |
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28.12.11 |
Climate Change in the Hindu Kush-Himalayas: The State of Current Knowledge |
The Hindu Kush-Himalayan (HKH) region is one of the most ecologically sensitive and fragile areas in the world. In all likelihood, the effects of climate change will become evident here first and with the greatest intensity. This report synthesises the present knowledge about the consequences that... |
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28.12.11 |
Study: Forest thinning increases carbon releases |
Assumptions that forest thinning treatments help sequester carbon are not grounded in science — instead, recent research shows that thinning actually releases more carbon to the atmosphere than any amount saved by successful fire prevention.
The study acknowledges that there are many valid... |
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28.12.11 |
Feasability of REDD in Bhutan: A Scoping Study |
The scope of the study is to keep momentum in introducing REDD+ in Bhutan and to asses the nations capacity and knowledge base, essential for compliance and voluntary market entrance, combined with an overall analysis if it is worthwhile to commit to the REDD mechanism, weighing its advantages and... |
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28.12.11 |
Carbon Impacts from Selective Logging of Forests in Berau District, East Kalimantan, Indonesia |
Few studies have attempted to address the carbon emissions resulting from the degradation of tropical forests. Selective forest logging represents an important form of degradation of tropical forests, and may lead to future deforestation of the area by providing accessibility to these areas. This... |
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28.12.11 |
Drivers of Deforestation and REDD+: Can REDD+ Compete? |
What do opportunity costs mean in the context of REDD+ and what are the implications for local communities? Farmers intuitively know the importance of opportunity costs. To tackle deforestation in a socially equitable way, we must consider what the drivers of deforestation are and what incentives... |
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28.12.11 |
From REDD to Green: A Global Incentive System to Stop Tropical Forest Clearing |
In this paper, David Wheeler and co-authors develop and illustrate a prototype incentive system for promoting rapid reduction of forest clearing in tropical countries. Their proposed Tropical Forest Protection Fund (TFPF) is a cash-on-delivery system that rewards independently monitored performance... |
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28.12.11 |
Giving REDD+ Heart: Integrating REDD+ with Broader Development Goals |
This report draws on The Forests Dialogue’s REDD+ readiness dialogue series, which took place in six countries — Brazil, Ghana, Guatemala, Ecuador, Cambodia and Switzerland — between October 2009 and March 2011. The series involved 240 key stakeholders from more than 30 countries... |
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20.12.11 |
Giving REDD+ Heart: Integrating REDD+ with Broader Development Goals |
Giving REDD+ Heart: Integrating REDD+ with Broader Development Goals through Cross-sectoral Dialogue is a Key to Bringing it to Life
This report draws on The Forests Dialogue’s REDD+ readiness dialogue series, which took place in six countries — Brazil, Ghana, Guatemala, Ecuador,... |
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20.12.11 |
Sustainable Forest Management and Carbon Stocks |
Sustainable forest management (SFM) ensures the continuous flow of wood products and employment while improving the functionalities of forests. Until recently, many projects associated with the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) projects focused only on reducing... |
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20.12.11 |
Forensic investigation of Tolko nets fine for falsified records |
Tolko Industries Ltd., a major salvage logger of beetle-killed pine in B.C.'s Interior, was fined $4,500 for obtaining a cutting permit through falsified records, documents obtained by The Vancouver Sun through a freedom-of-information request reveal.
The documents relate to compliance-and-... |
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17.12.11 |
Events Update: Summary of Forest day 5 |
The fifth Forest Day took place in Durban, South Africa, in parallel with the UN Durban Climate Change Conference, which convened from 28 November – 9 December 2011.
Frances Seymour, Director General, CIFOR highlighted a number of achievements, including: positive feedback from participants... |
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17.12.11 |
Forested countries need reassurance that “massive investment” in REDD+ will pay off |
Developed countries must commit to long-term climate financing and encourage multiple funding pathways to reassure forested countries that their “massive investment” in REDD+ will pay off.
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13.12.11 |
Community forest monitoring and REDD+ |
REDD+ presents a unique opportunity to conserve and sustainably use the world‟s remaining tropical forests, and an essential component of a future REDD+ framework will be the development of transparent, accountable, and sustainable monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) systems (Palmer Fry,... |
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13.12.11 |
Code of Conduct for working with Indigenous and Local Communities |
Research related to tropical rainforests involves field-based data collection. Much of this information gathering takes place in territories occupied by indigenous and other forest-based communities. Members of these communities are often used as sources of information for a wide range of topics,... |
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13.12.11 |
REDD-plus finance |
REDD-plus finance has received a lot of attention over the last years. This Brief describes the funding initiatives in support of this major international mitigation strategy and raises some ongoing challenges for the equitable delivery of climate finance.
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13.12.11 |
Is REDD-readiness taking us in the right direction? |
November, 2011. Nabaraj Dahal, Siri Damman, Kate Dooley, Nathaniel Dyer, Indra van Gisbergen, Maixent Fortunin Hanimbat Emeka, Raja Jarrah, Bienvenu Florentin Kemanda Yogo, Samual Nnah Ndobe, Justin Ondopa, Thomas Paka, & Abdul-Razak Saeed. Case studies from the Accra Caucus. Accra Caucus on... |
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09.12.11 |
ECN/EEA report on National Renewable Energy Action Plans |
As defined in Article 4 of the European Renewable Energy Directive (2009/28/EC) each European Member State has provided a National Renewable Energy Action Plan (NREAP) to the European Commission, detailing projections for renewable energy development up to the year 2020. By that year, the... |
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09.12.11 |
REDD+ finance delivery: lessons from early experience |
Delivering REDD+ finance has taken more preparatory work, capacity and tailoring than initially envisaged. Multilateral institutions financing REDD+ have made significant progress, and experience to date will inform and facilitate future implementation. Alongside this, Annex II countries are... |
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09.12.11 |
Blending Climate Finance through National Climate Funds |
Climate change is one of today’s most pressing threats to achieving sustainable development goals around the world. Countries must transform their economies and angle their growth with policies and actions across multiple sectors that lower greenhouse gas emissions, reduce... |
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09.12.11 |
Building bridges between REDD+ and sustainable agriculture |
The potential role of forests in reducing of global greenhouse gas emissions is attracting considerable interest from the international community.
Deforestation and forest degradation is largely being driven by forces outside the forestry sector. Many of these forces are closely tied to agriculture... |
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08.12.11 |
Splitting the Difference; a Proposal for Benefit Sharing in REDD+ |
The objective of REDD+ in developing countries is to create incentives for the reduction of emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and for the increase of carbon stocks through the enhancement, conservation and sustainable management of forests in developing countries.
As part of the... |
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05.12.11 |
Drivers and consequences of tropical forest transitions: options to bypass land degradation? |
June, 2011. Meyfroidt, P.; van Noordwijk, M.; Minang, P.A.; Dewi, S.; Lambin, E.F.. Policy Brief 25. ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins. 4 pages*
Summary
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05.12.11 |
Biofuels - from CDM to NAMAs |
Author: Romero, Jane|2011/11|Publisher: Institute for Global Environmental Strategies(Hayama, Japan)
Language: English|Publication Type: Working Papers|Copyright: IGES
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28.11.11 |
SCA study shows: Children want to spend more time in the forests |
November 20 we are celebrating UN’s Universal Day of Children, and this year is also the International Year of Forests. Consequently SCA takes the chance to talk more about what children really want: To spend and play more time in the fresh air and the forests.
A representative SCA study... |
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27.11.11 |
Bilateral Offset Credit Mechanism and Capacity building for MRV in Asia, Latin America and Africa |
Ministry of the Environment, Japan
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27.11.11 |
REDD+ and adaptation to climate change in East Africa |
In East Africa REDD+ has the potential to contribute to national adaptation objectives, however if uncoordinated, it also has the potential to increase vulnerability in key sectors such as agriculture, energy and water resource management. This paper outlines the linkages between REDD+ and... |
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27.11.11 |
REDD+ and adaptation: will REDD+ contribute to adaptive capacity at the local level? |
daptation is of high priority in many developing countries where the impacts of climate change are already being felt. REDD+ is a mitigation opportunity for many developing countries, however for the benefits to be maximised it should be designed in a way that meets national development objectives... |
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27.11.11 |
Comments on Viet Nam's timber legality definition VPA/FLEGT |
We would highly appreciate it if the contributions could be documented and sent to MARD at Tong cuc Lam nghiep, No. 2 Ngoc Ha, Ha Noi; fax 38438793 or email to nguyenminhthuong.vnforest@gmail.com by 1 December 2011.
Timber legality definition draft 4
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27.11.11 |
Trees Before Poverty at Durban |
New Report Reveals World Bank Forestry Scheme Ignored Deforestation Emissions Data
Donor Aid Money Being Misused
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26.11.11 |
Bamboo methodology opens for public comments |
According to Panda Standard V1.0, the new methodology ”Forestation of degraded land using species including bamboo” will open for 20 working days period from 10th November, 2011 to 7th December, 2011 to collect the advices from public. Please send your comments to the secretariat of... |
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26.11.11 |
Forest cover: Setting Targets for the Future |
The International Year of Forests, declared by the UN, is a good occasion to discuss approaches to reducing forest degradation in developing countries. The articles collected in Thematic Forest Series form a diversity of ideas which is essential for setting the levels below which the countries... |
