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Forests and Climate Change After Doha: An Asia-Pacific Perspective

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...

Decision Support Tool: Integrated REDD+ Accounting Frameworks: Nested National Approaches

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...

Approaches to benefit sharing: A preliminary comparative analysis of 13 REDD+ countries

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...

Safeguards in REDD+ and Forest Carbon Standards: A Review of Social, Environmental, and Procedural Concepts and Applications

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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The REDD Opportunities Scoping Exercise for Ghana: ROSE Expert Workshop Report
August 10, 2010
Michael Richards / Forest Trends

This Forest Trends/Katoomba Group report presents an analysis of the legal and policy framework for tree and forest carbon in Ghana – key elements for REDD+. It shows how the current legal and regulatory structure for forestry and lands in Ghana provides indications and precedents for how carbon rights and benefits might be managed and distributed. But it also highlights significant...

Africa, Strategy & Capacity Building, Methodologies and Standards, Finance and Economics
Our Balancing Act: The true value of ecosystems
August 3, 2010
Slieker, Denis, and Jos van Assendelft

In Our Balancing Act - The real value of ecosystems Denis Slieker and Jos van Assendelft explore the route of putting a value on ecosystems. Next to this, the book places the pressure on ecosystems in an historic perspective and presents ways to define the monetary value of ecosystems.

Methodologies and Standards, Social Issues, Environmental Co-benefits & Tradeoffs
Forest Carbon Offsetting Report 2010
May 1, 2010
Ecosecurities; The Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance; Conservation International; ClimateBiz; Norton Rose Group

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.

Market Analysis, Methodologies and Standards, Finance and Economics
10 Years of Experience in Carbon Finance - Insights from working with the Kyoto mechanisms
May 1, 2010
World Bank Carbon Finance Unit

The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) provides the backdrop for carbon finance activities. Carbon finance is the generic name for the revenue streams generated by projects from the sale of their greenhouse gas emission reductions (see Figure 1) or from trading in carbon permits. It sets the basis for an innovative scheme to meet the GHG...

Government Policy, International, Strategy & Capacity Building, Market Analysis, Methodologies and Standards
The emergence of the REDD Hydra: An analysis of the REDD-related discussions and developments in the June session of the UNFCCC and beyond
July 9, 2010
Francesco Martone, Forest Peoples Programme

A new round of UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) talks and meetings of the AWG-LCA (Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action) and the AWG-KP (Ad Hoc Working Group on the Kyoto Protocol), as well as of the two subsidiary bodies SBSTA (Subsidiary Body on Scientific and Technological Advise) and SBI (Subsidiary Body on Implementation) took place in Bonn,...

Government Policy, International, Methodologies and Standards
2010 Rating of Designated Operational Entities (DOEs) accredited under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
June 28, 2010
Öko-Institut and WWF

Designated Operational Entities (DOEs) are accredited independent entities responsible for ensuring that proposed projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) meet all requirements established by the CDM Executive Board operating under the Kyoto Protocol. In May 2009, Öko-Institut and WWF published a first rating of DOEs. The rating aims to provide transparent information to...

Methodologies and Standards