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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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Forests and Climate Change After Doha: An Asia-Pacific Perspective
May 14, 2013
RECOFTC – The Center for People and Forests, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific

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...

Government Policy, Asia, Oceania
Decision Support Tool: Integrated REDD+ Accounting Frameworks: Nested National Approaches
May 13, 2013
USAID, LEAF: Jeremy Broadhead, Robert O’Sullivan, John Costenbader, Luke Pritchard, Darragh Conway

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...

International, Strategy & Capacity Building
Approaches to benefit sharing: A preliminary comparative analysis of 13 REDD+ countries
May 8, 2013
CIFOR - Pham ThuThuy, Maria Brockhaus, Grace Wong, Le Ngoc Dung, Januarti Sinarra Tjajadi, Lasse Loft, Cecilia Luttrell, Samuel Assembe Mvondo

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...

International, Strategy & Capacity Building, Market Analysis
Safeguards in REDD+ and Forest Carbon Standards: A Review of Social, Environmental, and Procedural Concepts and Applications
May 8, 2013
ClimateFocus - Stephanie Roe, Charlotte Streck, Luke Pritchard, John Costenbader

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...

International, Methodologies and Standards
Draft decision support tool on identifying and addressing drivers of deforestation and degradation
May 6, 2013
Lowering Emissions in Asia’s Forests (LEAF) and the Association of Southeast Asia Nations’ Regional Knowledge Network on Forest and Climate Change (ARKN-FCC)

This draft decision support tool framework on identifying and addressing drivers of deforestation and forest degradation was developed from April 9-10, 2013, when LEAF and the ASEAN Regional Knowledge Network on Forest and Climate Change (ARKN-FCC) held a workshop in Bangkok on “Identifying and Addressing Drivers of Deforestation and Forest Degradation”.

Asia, Strategy & Capacity Building
Legal Analysis of Cross-Cutting Issues for REDD+ Implementation - Lessons Learned from Mexico, Vietnam and Zambia
May 1, 2013
UN-REDD Programme

This paper builds on the legal priorities identified by key stakeholders during national workshops held in November 2011 in Hanoi, Lusaka and Mexico City to discuss the country studies commissioned by FAO in 2011 for the UN-REDD Programme.  The study has been reviewed by government representatives from the three countries, the UN-REDD Programme’s partner agencies and international...

Latin America, Africa, Asia, Market Analysis