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Over the past three years RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have brought together regional experts to reflect on the outcomes of the 15th, 16th and 17th Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The resulting booklets “Forests and Climate...
This decision support tool provides overall guidance on establishing national-level REDD+ accounting frameworks within which nested or jurisdictional approaches are integrated. The tool complements information provided in the LEAF Technical Guidance on Development of a REDD+ Reference Level (Walker et al. 2012) and the Winrock/FCPF Decision Support Tool for Developing Reference Levels...
The issue of REDD+ benefit sharing has captured the attention of policymakers and local communities because the success of REDD+ will depend greatly on the design and implementation of its benefit-sharing mechanism. Despite a large body of literature on potential benefit-sharing mechanisms for REDD+, the field has lacked global comparative analyses of national REDD+ policies and of the...
This paper is the third report in a series of analytical papers that compare main design features of forest carbon standards and REDD+ initiatives. It presents a comparative analysis of social and environmental safeguard standards, their substantive and procedural components, and issues from developing country, donor country and private sector perspectives.
The paper also clarifies how...
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January 1, 1999
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
This article reviews and synthesizes some 150 econometric models of tropical deforestation. Following a critique of methodologies, it concludes that deforestation tends to be greater when: forested lands are more accessible; agricultural and timber prices are higher; rural wages are lower; there are more opportunities for long-distance trade; and economic liberalization policy reforms are...
January 1, 2008
UNFCCC
This tool can be used to estimate GHG emissions measurable and attributable to displacement of grazing activities caused by implementation of an A/R CDM project activity.
January 1, 2009
Voluntary Carbon Standard
The proposed AFOLU ARR methodology is intended to determine baseline and project related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions & carbon pools for projects that convert agricultural and grazing lands to forest plantations.
January 1, 2009
Climate Action Reserve
The Forest Project and Verification Protocols provide guidance to calculate, report, and verify GHG emission reductions associated with reforestation, improved forest management, and avoided conversion projects.
January 1, 2008
Carbon emissions from deforestation are sensitive to the proportion of forest that is harvested for timber and its carbon density, and also to the proportion of area that regenerates or is planted with perennial crops and/or forest vegetation.
November 1, 2008
Eduard Merger
This report compares four of the leading standards used to validate forest or Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) carbon projects in the voluntary carbon market: the Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB) Standards, Plan Vivo, the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) and CarbonFix Standards, pointing out key differences and similarities, and discussing how they treat methodology and...
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