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This report was created to increase transparency and answer fundamental questions about the supply of forestry-based carbon credits, such as transaction volumes, credit prices, hectares influenced and tenure rights. It outlines the aggregate numbers from our survey of 61 project developers (and in some cases, project proponents) and 34 intermediaries representing 226 projects across 40...
The Manual is designed to be used by carbon project proponents aiming for validation under the CCB Standards, or other multiple-benefit carbon standards. The NGOs involved in this initiative believe that a combination of credible social impact assessment methods and robust standards for verifying the co-benefits provides an important way of promoting positive social outcomes of land-based...
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July 23, 2010
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has published a brief describing its investment programme for sustainable forest management (SFM) and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of carbon stocks ( REDD+), as well as opportunities for funding of forest-related activities in the fifth...
July 19, 2010
This paper describes the different types of discounting, their objectives and their potential impacts on carbon markets. Discount factors can be used to strengthen the environmental integrity of offsets and to give preference to certain projects types or geographic regions. Applying a discount can also, in theory, enable the use of offsets to provide a net environmental benefit. At the same...
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May 1, 2010
The report is based on the survey responses of 207 corporate participants during January and February 2010 who, according to the data, purchased at least 7.9 million carbon credits in 2009, including approximately 3.0 million offsets from forestry. When compared with 2008 volumes, the survey respondents represent approximately half the global demand for voluntary forest carbon offsets.
March 1, 2010
This report presents the outcome of four dialogues on frameworks for the financing and implementation of REDD-plus, which were organized by The Forests Dialogue (TFD) between April and August 2009. This publication is not a research study but reflects the perceptions, opinions and recommendations expressed by the participants of these dialogues. It should be seen in the context of the time...
July 1, 2010
- This in-depth study of twelve producer, processing and consumer countries demonstrates that actions taken by governments, civil society and the private sector over the last ten years in response to illegal logging and related trade have been extensive and had a considerable impact.
- Illegal logging is estimated to have fallen by between 50 and 75 per cent during the...
May 1, 2009
Abstract: One reason for the rapid loss of species-rich tropical forests is the high opportunity costs of forest protection. In Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), the expansion of high-revenue oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) plantations currently threatens 3.3 million ha of forest. We estimate that payments for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD)...
