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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 28, 2013
Eklöf, Göran/ Swedish Society for Nature Conservation
Forests are the home to hundreds of million people, out of which approximately 60 million belong to the many indigenous peoples that inhabit forest areas. Approximately one out of four people on the planet – 1.6 billion people – at least partially sustain their livelihood needs from forests. Forests also contain 80 per cent of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity, and provide...
January 28, 2013
Charlotte Streck and John Costenbader/ Climate Focus
The objective of this paper, the first in a series of analytical papers to evaluate the design features of various results-based standards, protocols and methodologies, is to give an initial overview of existing and emerging REDD+ frameworks for results-based finance. The paper summarizes the most important standards that channel results-based payments to REDD+. This introduction into REDD+...
January 28, 2013
Paudel, Naya S. Khatri, Dil B. Khanal, Dil Raj Karki, Rahul/ CIFOR
This report provides an overview of Nepal’s initiatives on readiness for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), the political and socio-economic context in which they are taking place, and their implications for conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries. It examines land use change and...
January 24, 2013
Pratihast, A. K., Herold, M., Avitabile, V., Bruin, S. de, Bartholomeus, H., Souza Jr., C., & Ribbe, L.
Monitoring tropical deforestation and forest degradation is one of the central elements for the Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in developing countries (REDD+) scheme. Current arrangements for monitoring are based on remote sensing and field measurements. Since monitoring is the periodic process of assessing forest stands properties with respect...
January 15, 2013
PROFOR
Issue 54 of ETFRN News: Good Business: Making Private Investment Benefit Tropical Forests, published by Tropenbos International in January 2013, presents a compelling case for revisiting business as usual. As policy-makers and private actors redefine their strategy to seize opportunities and manage the risks associated with emerging forest-related markets, these articles demonstrate that well...
January 16, 2013
Stefan Haas, Alexander Watson and Fabian Schmidt
Risk assessment methodology for forest investments
Forest investments in emerging markets are at an early stage and standardized risk assessment methodologies are rarely available. A best-practice guideline is needed to tackle the complexity of multiple risk factors. Although Pricewaterhouse-Coopers has developed toolkits and Zurich Insurance Company offers global risk assessments,...
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