Nepstad, D.

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Linking Sustainable Agriculture with REDD: Opportunities for the FIP Report 27 Apr 2012 - 09:39
REDD+ in the Post-Copenhagen World: Recommendations for Interim Finance
 Recommendations for funding over the next three years include the need to develop "compliance-grade" REDD+ credits that could potentially sync with future regulatory carbon markets, while building the capacity for national REDD+ frameworks.  Supporting state and province-wide initiatives...
Report 16 May 2010 - 21:33
The End of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Brazil has two major opportunities to end the clearing of its Amazon forests and to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions substantially. The first is its formal announcement within UN climate treaty negotiations in 2008 of an Amazon deforestation reduction target, which prompted Norway to commit $...
Journal Article 14 May 2010 - 17:25
REDD+ in the Post-Copenhagen World: Recommendations for Interim Public Finance
REDD+ holds the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve the livelihoods of forest-dependent people, and conserve biodiversity. The interim public funding announced during and since the COP15 could play a strategic role in helping to realize this potential. The overall goal of this...
Report 13 May 2010 - 20:37
The Potential of REDD to Conserve the Amazon River System
River systems, such as the Amazon, are closely interdependent with riparian and upland forests, making them vulnerable to  changes in forest cover and land use.  By reducing deforestation and forest degradation REDD can contribute significantly to  maintaining the stability of flow...
Report 16 Feb 2010 - 17:43
Smallholders, Rural Development and REDD in the Brazilian Amazon
REDD discussions with regard to forest peoples are based on an implicit policy of command and control that combines investments in government monitoring and enforcement capacity with direct economic incentives to forest stakeholders.  There is relatively little emphasis on addressing the...
Report 16 Feb 2010 - 16:52
Getting REDD Right: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
This paper synthesizes principles and concepts about how carbon market compensation for reduced deforestation -- market-based REDD -- can help cut global emissions equitably and effectively, while contributing to development goals, protecting biodiversity and watersheds and benefitting indigenous...
Report 27 Jan 2010 - 20:28