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REDD+ capacity building is fundamental to achieving REDD+ readiness, recognized as a priority area by the UNFCCC since COP 13 in 2007. There is little data, however, that describe the type of capacity building and the number of people that are reached with these initiatives in REDD+ countries. The lack of information makes it difficult to determine where additional investments in capacity...
This brief addresses the major challenges and opportunities to financing climate change mitigation and adaptation pathways for smallholder farmers in developing nations. It underlines the need for an innovative and integrated approach to climate finance that can connect rural farmers to public and private finance at the global level. Lastly, it provides recommendations for future actions that...
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...
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Climate change poses a number of threats to soils in Europe. As a follow-up to the high-level June 2008 conference on soil and climate change a group of European scientists were asked by the Commission to assess the contribution soils can make to climate change mitigation and the effect of climate change on soil productivity and organic matter depletion....
This Carbon Store paper proposes a sectoral approach to engagement of developing nations in quantified emission reductions in the agriculture, forestry and other land uses (AFOLU) sector in the period 2013 – 2017.
Recognizing that additional research on international forest carbon might be useful to U.S. policymakers, Resources for the Future (RFF) undertook this study to gauge the general understanding of this issue among congressional lawmakers and staff. Over the course of two months, Lou Leonard interviewed more than 30...
Tool for afforestation and reforestation approved simplified methodologies (TARASM draft version) developed by BioCF and CATIE. The purpose of this spreadsheet tool is to facilitate the application of the CDM approved methodologies AR-AM0001, AR-AM0002, AR-AM0003, AR-AM0004, AR-AM0005, AR-AM0006, AR-AM0007, AR-AM0008, AR-AM0009, and AR-AM0010.
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From the Preface of the report: The Government of Norway has made the inclusion of a mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in a post-2012 climate regime a policy priority in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process.
The Learning for Sustainability site brings together resources to help us address the social and capacity building aspects of managing our forests and other natural resources in a sustainable manner.







