Participatory Social Impact Assessment of Water Funds
A Case Study from Lima, Peru
By Leah Bremer, Gena Gammie, Oscar Maldonado - Forest Trends, Forest Trends, Forest TrendsWater users and governments are increasingly recognizing watershed conservation as a critical component of a comprehensive water security strategy. In Latin America, this has inspired the launch of dozens of water funds, which facilitate investments in watershed conservation and restoration by pooling financial contributions from downstream water users, governments, and businesses. Beyond generating hydrological benefits […]
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Evaluación Participativa del Impacto Social de los Fondos de Agua
By Leah Bremer, Gena Gammie, Oscar Maldonado - Natural Capital Project, Forest Trends
REDD+ & Post-Conflict
A briefing for the Oslo REDD-Exchange
By Arthur Blundell, Emily Harwell, Kerstin Canby - Natural Capital Advisors, Natural Capital Advisors, Forest TrendsSince the first commitments for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) were announced in Bali in 2007, more than half of all participating countries have experienced violent conflict involving organized, armed groups. If properly designed, REDD+ programs can strengthen peace and security as much as they can mitigate climate change, improve environmental management, […]
Supply Change: Tracking Corporate Commitments to Deforestation-free Supply Chains, 2016
By Ben McCarthy, Stephen Donofrio, Jonathan Leonard, Philip RothrockA new report from Forest Trends’ Supply Change project tracks progress on 579 public commitments from companies around the world who have pledged to remove forest destruction from their supply chains. These businesses depend on the “big four” agricultural commodities – palm oil, wood products, soy, and cattle – that are found in nearly every aisle of […]
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State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2016
Raising Ambition
By Kelley Hamrick, Allie GoldsteinVoluntary buyers around the world paid to offset the equivalent of 84.1 million (M) tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2015, a 10% increase from 2014, led by private-sector companies taking proactive steps to reduce emissions ahead of regulation, according to a new report from Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace (EM). The EM report, Raising Ambition: State of the […]
Protocolo de Serviços Ambientais dos Ashaninka
Ashaninka Environmental Services Protocol
Community protocols were recognized as legal instruments in Brazil by Law No. 13,123, of May 20, 2015, known as the “Biodiversity Law.” With this protocol, the Ashaninka reaffirm their role as guardians of their forest in their 87,200 hectares in the Kampa region of the Amônia River Indigenous Reserve, and as crucial stewards of environmental […]
Plano de Vida Yawanawa
Yawanawa Life Plan
The Yawanawa Life Plan establishes how territorial governance is conducted in order to promote conservation and protect communities’ well-being in their 187,000 hectares in the Gregorio River Indigenous Reserve in the Brazilian Amazon. This book also documents many years of Yawanawa history, details the way that they have developed their organizational capacity and their initiatives, […]
Democractic Republic of Congo: Mapping REDD+ Finance Flows 2009-2014
The Democratic Republic of Congo is one of thirteen countries participating in the global REDDX initiative which tracks REDD+ finance from donors through international recipients and intermediary organizations to in-country recipients and ultimately to REDD+ projects on the ground. This report presents the results of the initiative’s findings as it tracked REDD+ finance in the […]
Ghana – Mapping REDD+ Finance Flows 2009-2014
By Kwame Agyei, Rebecca Ashley Asare - NCRC, NCRCREDDX was first launched in Ghana in early 2011 as an exploratory project, and since its first report in 2012 it has collected annual data and information on REDD+ financial flows spanning the past six years2009 through 2014. The project, which is jointly implemented by the National REDD+ Secretariat (NRS) and NCRC, has established a […]
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Liberia: Mapping REDD+ Finance Flows 2009-2014
By Peter Gayflor Mulbah - Skills and Agricultural Development ServicesForest Trends, Skills and Agricultural Development Services (SADS), and the Liberian Forestry Development Authority (FDA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have been compiling information on the flows of finance for REDD+ activities as part of the international REDD+ Expenditures Tracking Initiative (REDDX). Based on detailed surveys and interviews with key stakeholders including donors, implementing organizations, […]
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Linking Flight and Forests
This briefing paper highlights the vital role forests can play in fighting climate change and recommends that countries include REDD+, a policy framework for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, as a means for the international aviation sector to meet its commitments to cap and reduce its carbon pollution.
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