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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...
33 weeks 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...
32 weeks 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...
23 weeks 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...
23 weeks 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...
33 weeks ago
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity. TEEB for National and International Policy Makers. Chapter 5
Chapter 5: Rewarding benefits through payments and markets
29 weeks ago
Enhancing Today’s MRV Framework to Meet Tomorrow’s Needs: The Role of National Communications and Inventories
33 weeks 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...
25 weeks ago