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A Review of 25 Readiness Plan Idea Notes from the World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
The first step for developing countries to access financing under the Readiness Mechanism of the World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) is the development of a Readiness Plan Idea Note (R-PIN). This paper considers the extent to which R-PINs approved by the FCPF trust fund committee...
Thuault, Alice et al.
| World Resources Institute
3 Feb 2010 - 15:52 Report
Filling the REDD Basket: Complementary Financing Approaches
Financing approaches for REDD have become an issue of active debate, but there is now a growing consensus on the "Basket of Approaches" idea, which would combine different sources of funding for different aspects of REDD in different timeperiods.
Boucher, Doug et al.
| Union of Concerned Scientists
4 Feb 2010 - 18:34 Report
The Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry Guidance for Greenhouse Gas Project Accounting
The Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry (LULUCF) Guidance for GHG Project Accounting was developed to provide more specific guidance to the Protocol for Project Accounting to quantify and report GHG reductions from LULUCF project activities.
Daviet, Florence et al.
| World Resources Institute
3 Feb 2010 - 16:15 Report
2009 Forest Carbon Investor Survey 8 Feb 2010 - 21:47 Report
A day in the life of a carbon credit for reduced deforestation
There is broad domestic and international support to include the policy approach called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in climate policy. Allowing credit for deforestation reductions within climate legislation can significantly reduce the costs of a U.S. climate...
Environmental Defense Fund 27 Jan 2010 - 19:38 Report
A REDD Revolution in Copenhagen? Lanchbery, John 28 Jan 2010 - 12:57 Presentation
A System to Deliver Terrestrial Carbon Mitigation (REDD+ to AFOLU)
This Terrestrial Carbon Group Project report provides details of a multinational system to do so in support of: (a) ongoing global negotiations on reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto Protocol; and (b...
The Terrestrial Carbon Group Project 18 Jan 2010 - 11:20 Report
A “Stock Flow with Targets” Mechanism for Distributing Incentive Payments to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation
This policy brief refines the stock‐flow approach submitted jointly by the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) and by the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research (IPAM) to the UNFCCC in August 2008 on how to distribute across countries the potential incentive payments to reduce emissions from...
Cattaneo, Andrea
| Woods Hole Research Center
27 Jan 2010 - 16:28 Report
About the Forest Carbon Initiative
WWF is working to advance support for an agreed global policy framework for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD). WWF is also working on REDD in key regions of the world to better understand approaches for tackling forest based emissions.
World Wildlife Fund 8 Feb 2010 - 20:17 Report
Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM)
The Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM) is one of the principal, non-profit and non-governmental research and policy institutes in the Amazon and in Brazil.
27 Jan 2010 - 19:26 Organizations / Initiatives