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Trade-offs and synergies between carbon storage and livelihood benefits from forest commons
Forests provide multiple benefits at local to global scales. These include the global public good of carbon sequestration and local and national level contributions to livelihoods for more than half a billion users. Forest commons are a particularly important class of forests generating these...
3 years ago
The Little Climate Finance Book
The Little Climate Finance Book is a guide to the multitude of proposals put forward under the UNFCCC to address the scale of financing to tackle climate change. The different proposals are presented using clear non-technical language, and a visual framework that allows the options to...
3 years ago
The Little REDD+ Book
The IPCC estimate of emissions from tropical deforestation in the 1990s was 1.6 billion tonnes of carbon per year equating to 20% of global carbon emissions. To create a mechanism that addresses this problem, many differing proposals to reduce emissions from deforestation and...
3 years ago
REDD-plus after Copenhagen: What Does it Mean on the Ground?
Thousands came together in "Hopenhagen" from 7-10 December 2009 for what was the most covered and talked about of any United National Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) to date.
3 years ago
Design of a REDDCompliant Benefit Distribution System for Viet Nam
Viet Nam is well-placed to develop a REDD-compliant BDS as a result of many years of experience with similar systems such as the 661 or 5 Million Hectare Reforestation Programme, which was launched in 1998, and internationally supported payments for forest environmental services (PFES) pilot...
3 years ago
The context of REDD+ in Cameroon. Drivers, agents and institutions
The paper describes the current state of discussions in Cameroon on: reference scenarios; funding; costs and benefits; carbon levels; and measuring, reporting and verification (MRV). It examines this context based on the premise of the goals of effectiveness, efficiency and equity, as well as a...
2 years ago
Visioning REDD+ in East Africa: a focus on benefit sharing in Uganda and Tanzania
Progress in international debates about ‘Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation’ (REDD) and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks’ in developing countries (REDD+) is slow. At the national level, a different story is...
3 years ago
The Potential ecological costs and cobenefits of REDD: a critical review and case study from the Amazon region
The United Nations climate treaty may soon include a mechanism for compensating tropical nations that succeed in reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, source of nearly one fifth of global carbon emissions. We review the potential for this mechanism [reducing emissions...
3 years ago
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity. TEEB for National and International Policy Makers. Chapter 5
Chapter 5: Rewarding benefits through payments and markets
3 years ago
Forging a Path for High-Quality Compliance REDD Credits
Created in 2005, The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions at Duke University seeks to address some of the world’s most pressing environmental problems through scientifically grounded, rigorous, balanced nonpartisan policy analysis and broad-based dissemination of the Institute’s...
3 years ago