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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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March 28, 2013
UN-REDD Programme
The new publication entitled, “Economics of forests and forest carbon projects – Translating lessons learned into national REDD+ implementation,” funded by the UN-REDD Programme, tackles the issue of the economics of forest carbon projects and the perspectives of private sector REDD+ investors. It strives to provide advice to policymakers and project developers on how to...
March 26, 2013
To keep the global temperature rise due to climate change below 2 degrees, GHG emissions into the atmosphere must peak before 2020. This means that, emissions should be reduced to half the current level by 2050. This requires far more significant levels of cooperation between developed and developing countries, so that developing countries can develop a basic infrastructure and social system...
March 19, 2013
UN-REDD Programme
The new UN-REDD Programme publication, entitled "Free, Prior and Informed Consent for REDD+ in the Asia-Pacific Region: Lessons Learned", presents recent field-level experiences in the application of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) from the region and distills useful lessons learned and recommendations.
The UN-REDD Programme continues to expand its body of knowledge...
March 19, 2013
Coopération allemande, GIZ
Protection du climat et adaptation au changement climatique Importance et pistes d'action pour la coopération allemande au Cameroun
Bien que le Cameroun soit aujourd'hui déjà largement concerné par le changement climatique, et que les conséquences négatives du changement climatique iront en s'intensifiant...
March 17, 2013
The International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Isilda Nhantumbo, Marisa Camargo
REDD+ is already developing private sector engagements, making rights to sell and benefit from reduced emissions (carbon rights) a crucial issue. Our review of private sector REDD+ projects reveals tendencies for legal arrangements that reinterpret tenure law so as to bundle the new commodity of carbon regulation with existing rights to tangible resources. Provisions for benefit sharing,...
March 17, 2013
UN-REDD Programme
The report draws on case studies from Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua and Panama to demonstrate how land tenure rights are linked to incentive mechanisms for good forestry management. The report specifically examines REDD+ and payments for ecosystem services, highlighting successful examples of payments for ecosystem services in Costa Rica and community forestry in Guatemala...
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