Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation plus Sustainable Forest Management
(REDD + SFM)
Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) is seen to be a key factor to REDD+►►
Definition of SFM by UN + FAO: A/RES/62/98►► Definition of SFM by UNFF: Sustainable forest management as a dynamic and evolving concept aims to maintain and enhance the economic, social and environmental value of all types of forests, for the benefit of present and future generations►► Definition of SFM by CIFOR: Managing (permanent) forest to achieve one or more clearly specified objectives of management with regard to the production of a continuous flow of desired forest products and services (e.g. carbon) without undue reduction of its inherent values and future productivity and without undue undesirable effects on the physical and social environment►► |
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SFM, according to internationally agreed language, is a dynamic and evolving concept that aims to maintain and enhance the economic, social and environmental value of all types of forests, for the benefit of future generations.
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REDD+ Governance
At national, regional and local level as well as for state owned and private owned land and forests
AllAfrica |
2 weeks 5 days ago
Ghana's Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources is currently reviewing one of the sector's major policies the 1994 Forest and Wildlife Policy.
The review has been necessitated by a number of emerging issues including institutional and legislative reforms within the forest sector and current...
Tags: Ghana, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
UN |
4 weeks 2 days ago
Author(s): Rocío Hiraldo and Thomas Tanner
Programme Area: Research-Related Activities
Paper No.: 4
Code: OP
Tags: REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
EAAERE |
4 weeks 2 days ago
REDD-plus is one of the most important policy tools for promoting sustainable forest management, especially in tropical countries where significantly large net losses of forest area have been observed in recent years. Malaysia is considered as a potential participant country in REDD-plus project...
ForestCarbonAsia |
5 weeks 4 days ago
The scope of the study is to keep momentum in introducing REDD+ in Bhutan and to asses the nations capacity and knowledge base, essential for compliance and voluntary market entrance, combined with an overall analysis if it is worthwhile to commit to the REDD mechanism, weighing its advantages and...
Tags: Bhutan, REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
IDLO |
5 weeks 4 days ago
To advance legal knowledge and action for REDD+ development and climate change mitigation, IDLO, in collaboration with the UN-REDD Programme and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), prepared country studies on Legal Preparedness for REDD+. The first three Country...
Stakeholder Forum |
7 weeks 1 day ago
Law enforcement and anti-corruption activities are essential to successful and equitable efforts to reduce deforestation and forest degradation. REDD+ depends on the idea that governments, whether national or subnational, can create legal frameworks and plans to reduce deforestation and degradation...
Tags: Forestry, REDD+ Governance
Forest Carbon Asia |
8 weeks 6 days ago
This is a seminar report. The seminar was part of the international course on Local Governance & Rural Decentralization, organized on a yearly basis by the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) and Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation (CDI). The course participants were practitioners from...
Press Info Bureau Gov'nment India |
9 weeks 6 days ago
Shri Ranjan Chatterjee, Consultant, Planning Commission, said that forests are meant for every body and we need to keep balance between environment and forests. Shri Chatterjee said, “Forests are under pressure because of lack of understanding. Forests are not merely to preserve but work...
REDD Net |
10 weeks 9 hours ago
In East Africa REDD+ has the potential to contribute to national adaptation objectives, however if uncoordinated, it also has the potential to increase vulnerability in key sectors such as agriculture, energy and water resource management. This paper outlines the linkages between REDD+ and...
Tags: REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
IIED |
11 weeks 3 days ago
As policymakers prepare to discuss REDD+ at UN climate talks in Durban, they should heed the lessons learned from years of experience in participatory forest management across the developing world.
Tags: REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
NRM-Dev Portal USAID |
11 weeks 3 days ago
Ongoing work on forestry and climate change, especially with respect to developing approaches for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation-Plus (REDD+), is increasingly recognizing the importance of social and environmental soundness in program development and implementation. The issue...
FAO |
12 weeks 20 hours ago
The Forestry Department of FAO and the National Forest Programme Facility have initiated a joint effort to assist countries address emerging policy issues related to forests and climate change through integrating climate change considerations into national forest programmes.
ForestCarbon Asia |
12 weeks 8 hours ago
When: Oct 14 - 15, 2011
Where: Bhubaneswar, India
Organized By: Regional Centre for Development Cooperation (RCDC)
Norway News English |
12 weeks 2 days ago
Audits finally conducted of Norway’s foreign aid to Tanzania revealed irregularities and corruption, but critics claim Norwegian officials reacted much too mildly. The Foreign Ministry (Utenriksdepartementet, UD) appears to have been reluctant to take up difficult questions with...
EFD |
12 weeks 2 days ago
REDD offers potentially huge financial benefits for Tanzania. According to a draft national strategy for this forest carbon trading system, based on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, the country could earn $630 million a year. Yet researchers from Environment for...
Tags: Tansania, Tanzania, REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
World Future Council |
18 weeks 3 days ago
Forest laws and policies in Rwanda, The Gambia and the US beat out 17 other nominees to win 2011 Future Policy Award
Tags: Forestry, REDD+ Governance
RECOFTC |
20 weeks 1 day ago
Governance is the keystone of sound natural resource management.
20 weeks 1 day ago
The Philippine National REDD-plus Strategy and Current Status (PDF)
Climate-relevant modernisation of forest policy and piloting of REDD in the Philippines (PDF)
IIED |
22 weeks 13 hours ago
IIED code: G03145
Published: Aug 2011 - IIED
Details: Book/Report
Language: English
Tags: REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
CSR Asia |
24 weeks 5 days ago
A few weeks ago, WWF was attacked by the international NGO Global Witness in a widely publicised report Pandering to the loggers. It is a case which raises some important dilemmas about the choice that NGOs (and others) have to make between carrot and stick.
RECOFT |
26 weeks 3 days ago
The Forest Governance Learning Group brought together 12 experts from India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam, and the UN-REDD Programme to discuss how community forestry strengths and shortcomings can influence the further development of REDD+. This booklet summarizes their responses to nine...
Post Zambia |
29 weeks 3 days ago
THE United Nations says it will closely monitor all the funds it will give Zambia for climate change projects.
And the UN has given Zambia US$4.5 million for the implementation of the UN-REDD plus project.
In an interview, United Nations Development Plan (UNDP) environment finance advisor for...
Tags: Sambia, Zambia, REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
ForestCarbon Asia |
29 weeks 3 days ago
The anticipated benefits and co-benefits of REDD+ generated considerable enthusiasm and momentum prior to the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, and the lack of agreement of a global mechanism for REDD+ at that Conference generated corresponding disappointment. However, experience from earlier...
Tags: REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
Pakistan Observer |
30 weeks 6 days ago
Islamabad—Speakers on a seminar demanded revision of forest laws addressing landownership and judicious distribution of royalty in forest communities. Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) here organized, “A Roundtable Conference on Sustainable Forest Management”. Prof...
CIFOR |
32 weeks 21 hours ago
BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of Congo (17 June, 2011)_Financing forest conservation in Central Africa is an age-old issue of trust between the developed and developing worlds or “North and South”, said the President of Guyana, Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo at the Three Tropical Forest Basin Summit (...
Guardian |
33 weeks 19 hours ago
Imagine if your government suddenly passed laws that sold off the street your family had lived on for generations to an international property developer. Your land was to be "converted" into flats in the name of national economic development; bulldozers would soon be moving in to...
The REDD Desk |
35 weeks 6 days ago
The aim of the policy is to enhance the contribution of the forest sector to the sustainable development of Tanzania and the conservation and management of her natural resources for the benefit of present and future generations. This goal is to be realized through effective management of forest...
Commodities Now |
35 weeks 6 days ago
Anti-Corruption Centre |
36 weeks 5 days ago
Tags: Philippinen, Philippines, REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
Climate-I |
37 weeks 2 days ago
May 2011: The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) has released a number of publications relevant to REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, as well as conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of...
Guyana Chronicle |
37 weeks 2 days ago
AS Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy moves beyond its start-up phase, the government is leading efforts to advance work on the six priority investments for this year. The six investments will accelerate Guyana’s transition to a low carbon economy by deploying the US$70M earned...
Transparency International |
39 weeks 4 days ago
The impacts of climate change will be felt all over the world, in developed and developing countries alike. At risk are billions of dollars but more importantly the lives and livelihoods of millions of people. Corruption cannot be allowed to jeopardise efforts to combat climate change.
Tags: Deforestation, REDD+, Abholzung, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
IUCN |
40 weeks 6 days ago
Recent developments in Cameroon show that the country is now steadily advancing with the building of a national REDD+ strategy. Progress with the creation of an all-important national framework for REDD+ implementation has to be taken step by step in order to allow stakeholder engagement and...
Tags: Cameroon, Kamerun, REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
CIFOR |
40 weeks 6 days ago
AOUNDE, Cameroon (18 April, 2011)_The trade in illegally harvested timber provides a living for more than 45,000 people, a major source of income for corrupt officials and not a cent for the state. Follow this 5-part series as I explore Cameroon’s hidden harvest.
I have used pseudonyms to...
Transparency International |
43 weeks 3 days ago
On 30 April 2011 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Transparency International launches the Global Corruption Report: Climate Change, a comprehensive guide to corruption risks in measures to combat climate change.
As efforts to combat climate change become grander in scale and sophistication, the risks will...
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ Governance
ProFor |
43 weeks 3 days ago
Demerara Waves |
43 weeks 6 days ago
Norway Thursday night stressed the need for anti-corruption mechanisms before compensating Guyana and other countries to preserve their forests.
Tags: Guyana, REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
The Center for People and Forests |
46 weeks 6 hours ago
The principle that indigenous peoples and local communities have a right to give or withhold their Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) to developments affecting their resources is not new. However, experience using FPIC in REDD+ implementation is still limited in the Asia-Pacific region....
U4.no |
49 weeks 6 days ago
Ecosystem Marketplace |
50 weeks 6 days ago
All markets differ from region to region. Soybean meal from Brazil, for example, has a higher protein content than does soybean meal from the United States, which makes it especially popular in China. But the two products resemble each other enough that a Chinese buyer will grudgingly...
Forest Trends |
1 year 2 days ago
Guyana Chronicle |
1 year 3 days ago
AGRICULTURE Minister Robert Persaud said, Wednesday, that the Government has led efforts to strengthen forest legality to ensure access to traditional and new markets and is pursuing avenues to build on what was previously achieved. He was speaking to stakeholders at a European Union (EU) Forest...
IIED |
1 year 1 week ago
The European Union is closing its doors to illegal timber exports. But unless we tackle unsustainable logging to satisfy domestic timber markets, their actions will little benefit forests, or the millions of poor people that live within them. Making timber sustainable requires the use of both...
Carbon Trade Watch |
1 year 1 week ago
It is one of the first laws of diplomacy: when it is hard to agree on an answer, change the question. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) schemes are the product of two of these diplomatic back-flips.
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ Governance
IUFRO |
1 year 1 week ago
NEW YORK (24 January 2010)—A new study issued today by some of the world's top experts on forest governance finds fault with a spate of international accords, and helps explain their failure to stop rampant destruction of the world's most vulnerable forests. The report suggests that...
Tags: REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
An Introduction to Forest Governance, People and REDD+ in Latin America: Obstacles and Opportunities
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ Governance
Forest Trends |
1 year 6 weeks ago
Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) mechanisms are one of the best short term alternatives for significantly reducing green house gas emissions, thus contributing to minimize the impacts of global climate changes.
Tags: REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
Enviroscope |
1 year 10 weeks ago
Author: Ibarra Gené, Enrique|2010/11|Working Paper No. 8.|Publisher: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. Nanyang Technological University(Singapore)
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ Governance
IGREC |
1 year 10 weeks ago
REDD has the potential for creating serious inter-community conflicts that could ignite explosive violence among tribes that have historically been antagonistic. Many tribal communities in heavily populated tropical countries have disputes with neighboring communities over control over...
Tags: REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
FAO |
1 year 14 weeks ago
The designations employed and the presentation of material in this information product do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal or development status of any country, territory,...
FIELD |
1 year 16 weeks ago
October 5, 2010. FIELD has prepared a new guide on REDD-plus - its purpose is to assist developing country negotiators and others who are working on REDD-plus. FIELD provides this information on a neutral non partisan basis. The guide is available in English, French and Spanish.
(English) Guide...
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ Governance
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide |
1 year 16 weeks ago
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD): A Guide for Landowners and Forest Communities in the Pacific
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ Governance
Environment for Development |
1 year 18 weeks ago
Daniel Slunge, Policy Analyst at the Environmental Economics Unit, University of Gothenburg, was invited speaker at the second Conference on Environmental Governance and Democracy: Strengthening Institutions to Address Climate Change and Advance a Green Economy, organized by the United Nations...
Tags: REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Governance
Environmental Expert |
1 year 20 weeks ago
In July, the Ford Foundation announced a five-year, US$85 million initiative to address climate change through the inclusion and empowerment of rural and indigenous people. David Kaimowitz, the foundation's director of sustainable development, talks with Research Fellow Molly Theobald about the...
1 year 20 weeks ago
The World Bank, PROFOR and FAO are organizing an international symposium on indicators to assess and monitor the quality of forest governance. The symposium will take stock of progress to date in designing indicators and applying them in the field, including the use of indicators for specific...
CIFOR Blogs |
1 year 20 weeks ago
While opinions vary about what exactly good forest governance means, participants in the Oaxaca workshop dealing with this subject agreed passionately that it is critical if REDD+ is to succeed in creating powerful new financial incentives for sustainable forest management.
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ Governance
Eureka Alert |
1 year 21 weeks ago
Oaxaca, Mexico (3 September 2010)—With governments across Latin America preparing to implement a new financial mechanism aimed at mitigating climate change by curbing carbon emissions from the destruction of tropical forests, experts gathering here today warned against a "one-size-...
Forest Trends |
1 year 25 weeks ago
The REDD+ Opportunities Scoping Exercise (ROSE) is a tool for classifying and prioritizing potential REDD+ sub-national activities and for assessing critical constraints to project development, especially those associated with the legal, political, and institutional framework for carbon finance....
UN-REDD |
1 year 25 weeks ago
The UN-REDD Programme has been active over the past few months, in convening and engaging with partners from around in the world to advance ideas and common understandings of governance issues related to REDD+.
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ Governance
IUCN |
1 year 26 weeks ago
Forests may be about to get a lucky break. If opportunities are seized and problems ironed out, international mechanisms to support reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhanced forest carbon stocks (“REDD-plus”) will give efforts to sustain forests and the...
Tags: Ghana, REDD+, REDD+ Governance
Huffington Post |
1 year 26 weeks ago
Can forest-rich countries learn from the mistakes of extractive projects and avoid unleashing their own resource curse?
For poor developing countries, exploiting natural wealth such as minerals and metals should prove a blessing, offering the potential to generate huge revenues and help lift...
Tags: Forest carbon, Peru, REDD+, REDD+ Governance
International Institute for Environment and Development |
1 year 26 weeks ago
With concerns over climate change rising, there have been several initiatives aimed at reducing the impacts and contributing factors of climate change. But with millions and potentially billions of dollars at stake, how successful will these initiatives be in mitigating climate change?
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ Governance
Enviro-Library |
1 year 26 weeks ago
Aceh is a forest landscape where the interests of local people, extractive industries and globally important biodiversity are in conflict. Two prevailing factors have ensured large tracts of forest in Ulu Masen have remained relatively undisturbed: the three decade long separatist conflict that...
Climate-L |
1 year 27 weeks ago
July 2010: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has published a brief describing its investment programme for sustainable forest management (SFM) and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, conservation, sustainable management of forests and...
UNDP |
1 year 28 weeks ago
The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD Programme) is a collaboration between FAO, UNDP and UNEP. A multi-donor trust fund was established in July 2008 that allows donors to pool resources and...
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ Governance
World Resources Institute |
1 year 29 weeks ago
In May 2010, Norway agreed to contribute up to $1 billion towards reducing deforestation and forest degradation and loss of peatland in Indonesia, which now account for more than 80 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. The “Letter of Intent” is a promising first step...
Carbon Positive |
1 year 30 weeks ago
In order for REDD+ to be successful in halting deforestation in developing countries, carbon finance incentives will need to be delivered through smaller scale channels as well as big national bureacracies, The Nature Conservancy argues. To this end, the Nature Conservancy has issued a report,...
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ Governance
CIFOR |
1 year 31 weeks ago
The idea behind REDD+ is simple: Reward the people who manage forest resources in developing countries so they reduce emissions and increase removals of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
But ensuring that the rights of forest peoples are formally integrated in climate change programmes...
Tags: Forest carbon, REDD+, REDD+ Governance
CRED, University of Namur – Belgium |
1 year 33 weeks ago
Social and economic development has historically been associated with spatial expansion of connection networks. A quick look at any detailed topographic map reveals that more developed countries have denser road and railroad network than less developed ones and that even within a country we are...
Tags: REDD+ Governance
Global Platform |
1 year 34 weeks ago
A forthcoming editorial in the journal Global Environmental Change discusses three broad principles for protecting the rights of indigenous peoples and members of local communities under REDD-plus actions.
Tags: REDD+ Governance
IUCN |
1 year 34 weeks ago
IUCN, June 2010 | IUCN urges Parties to reach an agreement on a REDD-plus mechanism that recognizes that avoiding greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation is a necessary component of achieving deep cuts in all sources of anthropogenic emissions in order to mitigate...
Tags: REDD+ Governance
Nophea Sasaki |
1 year 35 weeks ago
For citation: Sasaki, N. & Yoshimoto, A. (2010) Benefits of Tropical Forest Management under the New Climate Change Agreement—A Case Study in Cambodia. Environmental Science and Policy (in press), DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2010.04.007
LSE |
1 year 37 weeks ago
A new direction for climate policy
Rapid advance in addressing climate change is now possible for the first time in 15 years because global climate policy crashed in 2009, according to 'The Hartwell Paper', a new international report co-ordinated at LSE.
Tags: REDD+ Governance
The Australian Institute |
1 year 38 weeks ago
(PhysOrg.com) -- Australia's failure to accurately measure and predict emissions from deforestation, and the difficulty it has had in reducing deforestation, should send a warning signal to the world, according to a study from The Australian National University.
Tags: REDD+ Governance
Climate-L |
1 year 39 weeks ago
UN PRESS |
1 year 40 weeks ago
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; Ninth Session; 12th & 13th Meetings (AM & PM):
The “painful” history of State control over forests could be traced by following the heavily deforested footprints that colonizers had left on indigenous lands and territories, the Permanent...
Meridian REDD |
1 year 44 weeks ago
While nearly $150 million has been spent to date on carbon offsets from planting trees and preserving forests, the market is in a precipitous position over limitations in the CDM for forestry projects. However, the industry got a boost at the Copenhagen talks, when nations promised a $3.5...
Tags: REDD+ Governance
Katoomba Group |
1 year 45 weeks ago
A Tool for Prioritizing Sub-National REDD Opportunities and Constraints Experiences in Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda.
Tags: REDD+ Governance
CIFOR |
1 year 46 weeks ago
Governance is the act or manner of governing. 'Good' governance is a form of political decision making that emphasises legality (rules to resolve conflicts), legitimacy (acceptance and trust by the public that create accountability)
Tags: REDD+ Governance
FAO |
1 year 46 weeks ago
March 2010: The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) have published a policy brief summarizing the main findings of five workshops that aimed to promote a multi-sectoral dialogue among countries on improving forest law...
Tags: REDD+ Governance
1 year 46 weeks ago
The technical material was developed in mid-2008 and is 'global' in nature. Starting at the 'global' level was a deliberate action by the developers of this program as the current global dialogue and debate will create the ground rules for national and project-led developments in REDD.
Tags: REDD+ Governance
InterCooperation |
1 year 46 weeks ago
This publication brings together the views and experiences of practitioners working in forestry and governance in a large number of countries around the world.
Tags: REDD+, Rural development, REDD+ Governance
World Resource Institute |
1 year 46 weeks ago
Competing demands for food, fuel and profit are driving the loss and degradation of the world’s remaining forests. Governments, the private sector, and citizens are struggling to manage the conflicts between these priorities.
Tags: REDD+ Governance
REDD+ Capacity building
At all stages from indigenous people, local communities to individual forest owners
PHE Ethopia |
29 weeks 3 days ago
By 2025, children who are 18 years or younger today will represent more than half of the world‘s workforce. A critical strategic opportunity exists to ‗insure‘ the resiliency, effectiveness, and overall return on investment on 20-30 year REDD projects by investing in innovative school-...
Tags: Äthopien, Ehtopia, Forestry, REDD+ Capacity Building
NC Guyana |
31 weeks 6 days ago
Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo spent today in a series of meetings with German leaders and senior officials. Discussions centered on the need for sustained political action on climate change, and in particular on Guyana and Germany's upcoming joint chairing of the Interim REDD+...
Times of India |
37 weeks 2 days ago
NEW DELHI: In order to lock climate changing carbon dioxide in the growing forests, the government has asked the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to provide a substantial part of the Rs 90 billion needed every year for 10 years.
Tags: India, Indien, REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Capacity Building
Transparency International |
37 weeks 2 days ago
Tags: Vietnam, REDD+, Forestry, REDD+ Capacity Building
Guyana Chronicle |
37 weeks 2 days ago
AS Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy moves beyond its start-up phase, the government is leading efforts to advance work on the six priority investments for this year. The six investments will accelerate Guyana’s transition to a low carbon economy by deploying the US$70M earned...
Africa Science News |
39 weeks 4 days ago
A collaborative partnership on forests, bringing together 14 international organizations working to protect and manage the world’s forests has Wednesday called for governments across the globe to increase communities’ role in forest management. Doing so could contribute to lifting...
ProFor |
43 weeks 3 days ago
Enviro-Library |
1 year 26 weeks ago
Aceh is a forest landscape where the interests of local people, extractive industries and globally important biodiversity are in conflict. Two prevailing factors have ensured large tracts of forest in Ulu Masen have remained relatively undisturbed: the three decade long separatist conflict that...
Desertification Blog |
1 year 27 weeks ago
Read at : Forest Policy Info Mailing List <forests-l@lists.iisd.ca>
New Casebook of On-the-Ground REDD Project Experience
Tags: REDD+ Capacity Building
World Resources Institute |
1 year 29 weeks ago
In May 2010, Norway agreed to contribute up to $1 billion towards reducing deforestation and forest degradation and loss of peatland in Indonesia, which now account for more than 80 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. The “Letter of Intent” is a promising first step...
Rainforest Foundation UK |
1 year 34 weeks ago
The Accra Caucus on Forests and Climate Change is a network of southern and northern NGOs representing around 100 civil society and Indigenous Peoples' organizations from 38 countries, formed at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Accra, Ghana in 2008.
yeangdonal Blogspot |
1 year 37 weeks ago
Official in Oddar Meanchey province on Monday began relocating a group of 200 families living in a protected forest area near Samraong town, ending a standoff that led to a violent altercation between villagers and Forestry Department workers in March, officials said.
Daily News Tanzania |
1 year 37 weeks ago
A MAJOR global conference to form the first real genuine partnership to fight climate change through Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) in developing countries will be held in Oslo, Norway later this month.
The conference which is expected to be attended by...
Forest Carbon Portal |
1 year 37 weeks ago
Community Forestry International (CFI), in partnership with Terra Global Capital (TGC), recently published a case study describing experiences emerging from the design and carbon development of one of the world’s first community-based REDD+ projects in Oddar Meanchey Province,...
Stabroek News |
1 year 39 weeks ago
The report on the Norway-Guyana MoU is an unusual event in the normally secretive apparatus of government in Guyana.
1 year 39 weeks ago
Notwithstanding issues affecting the efficiency and effectiveness of forest and forest land allocation policies, Vietnam is at a cross-road at the time market-based mechanisms for forest conservation, such as REDD, are attracting an increasing and vibrant interest in international Climate Change...
Tags: REDD+ Capacity Building
Nature and Poverty |
1 year 39 weeks ago
This training manual has been written for indigenous trainers who intend to facilitate a training on REDD for indigenous leaders. It has been devised for a proposed five-days training programme with five modules. The manual includes suggestions for the objectives of each module, activities and...
Tags: REDD+ Capacity Building
UN PRESS |
1 year 40 weeks ago
Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; Ninth Session; 12th & 13th Meetings (AM & PM):
The “painful” history of State control over forests could be traced by following the heavily deforested footprints that colonizers had left on indigenous lands and territories, the Permanent...
CIFOR |
1 year 44 weeks ago
Community networks have emerged as an important force in enhancing forest tenure security and livelihood benefits for forest-dependent communities.
In many countries, such networks have become part of the forest tenure reform process. They develop at the grassroots level, and are proving to be...
Tags: REDD+ Capacity Building
AlertNet |
1 year 44 weeks ago
Civil society, government organizations and local communities in many tropical rainforest nations have started REDD-plus preparation planning with a lot enthusiasm, eager to take part in this proposed global mechanism for the reduction of forest-related CO2 emissions.
Tags: REDD+ Capacity Building
Guyana Chronicle Online |
1 year 44 weeks ago
MINISTER of Amerindian Affairs, Ms Pauline Sukai says that contrary to opinion in some quarters, the rights of the Indigenous Peoples have always been accorded top priority by the present administration as evinced by its unwavering commitment to addressing various issues affecting the community.
kaieteur News Online |
1 year 45 weeks ago
The furore surrounding the statement issued by a conference of Amerindian leaders on land rights is, in the opinion of the Guyana Human Rights Association, misplaced and unhelpful.
The sensitivity manifest by the supporters of the LCDS and REDD+, is uncalled for, the GHRA said in a...
Stabroek News |
1 year 45 weeks ago
A lack of money hinders the National Toshaos’ Council (NTC) from holding further consultations in Amerindian communities about government’s forest preservation strategies, the organisation’s head, Yvonne Pearson says.
Guyana Chronicle |
1 year 46 weeks ago
I wish to refer to Stabroek News front page article under the caption ‘Indigenous leaders call for the hold on LCDS, REDD + projects’ and Kaieteur News article under the caption ‘Amerindian community slam LCDS consultation – current mining practices do not respect rights...
Guyna Chronicle |
1 year 46 weeks ago
THE National Amerindian Development Foundation, the Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana and the Guyanese Organisation of Indigenous Peoples are baffled by the misleading statements carried in the Stabroek News under caption ‘Indigenous Leaders call for hold on LCDS, REDD+ projects...
Stabroeck News |
1 year 46 weeks ago
Dear Editor,
Stabroeck News |
1 year 46 weeks ago
Indigenous leaders are calling on government and international agencies to shelve policies related to projects like the LCDS, REDD+ until free, prior and informed consent guidelines for land use are in place.
Stabroeck News |
1 year 46 weeks ago
Some Indigenous leaders, who recently voiced concerns about the scope of government consultations over forest preservation plans, have since been victims of intimidation tactics, the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) disclosed yesterday, while maintaining that genuine concerns of communities...
Stabroeck News |
1 year 46 weeks ago
Indigenous leaders say that they support “in principle” proposals that aim to protect standing forests but said that they must not be pressured into make decisions without full understanding of the implications of such policies.
Stabroeck News |
1 year 46 weeks ago
The Office of Climate Change (OCC) last night described the objections by some indigenous leaders to the LCDS and REDD+ policies as “malicious misrepresentations and distortions” and a deliberate attempt to mislead the public on the two policies.
CIFOR |
1 year 46 weeks ago
Conversely though, if well designed and implemented REDD has the potential to improve the livelihoods of forest-dependent people. It could prompt governments to clarify and formalise land tenure, enabling forest communities to benefit from payments and incentives for forest conservation.
Tags: REDD+ Capacity Building
Eurekalert |
2 years 1 week ago
LONDON (22 January 2010)—As environmental and political leaders struggle to determine how to move forward from the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, a new report by an international coalition of top forest organizations
REDD+ Technical Support
From national carbon inventory to national land use planning...
ForestCarbon Portal |
11 weeks 3 days ago
Meridian Institute
This report proposes guidelines for developing REDD+ reference levels (RLs) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It identifies principles that should be adhered to, the steps that must be taken, the data that will be required, and shows how...
Tags: REDD+, REDD+ Technical Support
Forest Trends |
29 weeks 3 days ago
Forest projects around the world are working to confront the practical challenges of reducing emissions and providing local benefits. To facilitate the development of forest projects, we have compiled strategic step-by–step guidance to emerging best practices.
Guyana Chronicle |
37 weeks 2 days ago
AS Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy moves beyond its start-up phase, the government is leading efforts to advance work on the six priority investments for this year. The six investments will accelerate Guyana’s transition to a low carbon economy by deploying the US$70M earned...
ProFor |
43 weeks 3 days ago
Forest Carbon Stock Measurement: Guidelines for measuring carbon stocks in community-managed forests
Title: Forest Caron Stock Measurement: Guidelines for measuring carbon stocks in community-managed forests
Tags: stocks, Vorrat, REDD+ Technical Support, Carbon, Kohlenstoff
American Carbon Registry |
1 year 25 weeks ago
The American Carbon Registry (ACR), a non-profit enterprise of Winrock International, welcomes feedback from its members, project proponents and other interested parties on the ACR Methodology for REDD – Avoiding Planned Deforestation.
This methodology is applicable only to the REDD...
World Resources Institute |
1 year 29 weeks ago
In May 2010, Norway agreed to contribute up to $1 billion towards reducing deforestation and forest degradation and loss of peatland in Indonesia, which now account for more than 80 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. The “Letter of Intent” is a promising first step...