Publications

Programa de Formação de Mediadores Culturais em Mudanças Climáticas e Gestão Territorial Povo Yawanawá

Cultural Mediators program in Climate Change and Territorial Management of the Yawanawa People

This document is the product of the Cultural Mediators program’s first workshop on Climate Change and Territorial Management. Its contents, texts, translations and most of the illustrations were made by its participants.  The community decided that this material should be used for the schools of the Yawanawá people.

Programa de Formação de Mediadores Culturais em Mudanças Climáticas e Gestão Territorial Povo Noke Koi

Cultural Mediators Training Program in Climate Change and Territorial Management of the Noke Koi People

This document is the product of the program’s first workshop of Cultural Mediators in Climate Change and Territorial Management. Its content was made by the Noke Koi people and teachers.

Gobernanza Territorial Indígena en América Latina

Indigenous Territorial Governance in Latin America- Spanish Version

This book was created in the final year of the Accelerating Inclusion and Mitigating Emissions (AIME) program to gather perspectives on the key issues of indigenous territorial governance in Latin America. The book was written by the Forest Based Livelihood Consortium, supported by the USAID. The text reflects the experiences of indigenous organizations and associated […]

Governança Territorial Indígena na América Latina

Indigenous Territorial Governance in Latin America - Portuguese Version

This book was created in the final year of the Accelerating Inclusion and Mitigating Emissions (AIME) program to gather perspectives on the key issues of indigenous territorial governance in Latin America. The book was written by the Forest Based Livelihood Consortium, supported by the USAID.  The text reflects the experiences of indigenous organizations and associated […]

Nós Kwazá Aikanã: Nossa Terra E As Mudanças No Clima

We the Kwazá Aikanã: Our Land and Climate Change

Developed from the materials produced in the Cultural Mediators workshops on climate change and territorial management, this booklet was created to support the work of teachers in the indigenous schools of the Kwazá people of the São Pedro River. The contents of this booklet seek to help children understand the dynamics  related to climate change, the […]

Myanmar Must Clarify the Legal Framework for Its State-Owned Economic Enterprises

State-owned Economic Enterprises (SEEs) dominate Myanmar’s economy. They are reportedly responsible for 7% of GDP, and generate at least one-fifth of government revenue from extractive sectors alone. Yet, they operate “simultaneously within a sparse legal framework and a vast bureaucracy …lack[ing] supervision,” and the institutions meant to provide oversight “are largely unable to provide substantive accountability.”  […]

Towards Timber Import Provisions In Thailand

As Thailand positions itself an export-focused manufacturer, maintaining access to markets will increasingly require efforts to verify that all timber in its products (both imported and domestically produced) is legal. Regulations to tackle the trade in illegal wood have now been operational across the European Union (through the EU Timber Regulation or EUTR), in the[…]

Dependent Documents

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โดย มาริโกล์ด นอร์แมน และ เจด ซอนเดอร์

By Marigold Norman & Jade Saunders

Targeting Zero Deforestation

Company Progress on Commitments That Count, 2019

A Collaborative Analysis between Forest Trends and Ceres, Based on Supply Change Data It’s been nearly a decade since the Board of the Consumer Goods Forum (CGF), an industry association comprised of roughly 400 companies, passed a resolution to achieve Zero Net Deforestation in the “big four” commodity supply chains responsible for the bulk of […]

Harnessing Private Investor ‘Willingness-to-Pay’ for Climate Change Mitigation

A Mechanism to Co-fund Public Commitments to Achieve the Goals of the Paris Agreement

Private investors currently have little opportunity to deploy investment capital on concessionary terms for climate impact. This paper proposes that a significant percentage of social responsible investment (SRI), impact, and many mainstream investors would be willing to pay a modest donation on the nominal value of their investment portfolios in order to support climate change[…]

Tackling Deforestation and the Trade in Forest Risk Commodities: Consumer-Country Measures and the ‘Legality Approach’

The world continues to lose forests at an unsustainable rate. Deforestation contributes to climate change, degrades local environments, destroys habitats and biodiversity, and impoverishes forest communities and indigenous peoples. A significant proportion of this forest clearance has been illegal. This brief proposes a “legality approach” – an attempt to reduce the level of illegal behavior […]