Publications

REDD+ Finance Flows 2009-2014

Trends and Lessons Learned in REDDX Countries

Forest Trends, a non-profit organization that tracks global forest developments, today released the most comprehensive analysis to date of the United Nations’ program for protecting forests and generating forest conservation finance. The study follows the money trail in 13 countries that account for 65 percent of the globe’s tropical forest cover under the U.N.’s Reducing […]

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New Report on Forest Finance Offers Climate Negotiators in Paris a Clear Path to Tackle Climate Change and Deforestation

Results Report 2014

Sharing Progress on the Path to Adoption of Clean and Efficient Cooking Solutions

This report provides a snapshot of how the partners of the Global Alliance of Clean Cookstoves are progressing in its strategic vision of facilitating the adoption of 100 million cookstoves by 2020 as reported by our partners. Two important features of the 2014 results report are: This year’s report integrates information from the Alliance’s Clean […]

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Infographic – Clean Cookstoves Results Report 2014

State of Forest Carbon Finance 2015

Converging at the Crossroads

Companies and governments around the world committed US$705 million in new finance in 2014 to enhance the role of forests in combating climate change, according to a report released this week by Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace, Converging at the Crossroads: State of Forest Carbon Finance in 2015. Over the last decade, private and public sector actors […]

Rural Credit in Brazil

Challenges and Opportunities for Promoting Sustainable Agriculture

In this brief we explore the role of rural credit in promoting agricultural sustainability in Brazil. We look at the trends in different categories of rural credit in the last decade—creation of sustainability-related credit lines, interest rates, and sources of funds. We also describe the main difficulties that producers face in accessing rural credit, as […]

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Crédito Rural no Brasil

Firm Commitments

Tracking Company Endorsers of the New York Declaration on Forests

At the 2014 United Nations Climate Summit, 180 governments, companies, indigenous community networks, and civil society organizations signaled their commitment to ending deforestation by endorsing the New York Declaration on Forests, which set a goal to halve natural forest loss by 2020 and end it by 2030. Fast forward one year, and many of the […]

Titling Ancestral Territories in the Honduran Muskitia

The Muskitia region in the easternmost part of Honduras is undergoing an unprecedented change in land titling. Indigenous people who have been occupying this area are receiving titles to the land, and at the end of this process, the indigenous territorial space in northeastern Honduras could cover almost 14% of the country. This is the […]

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La titulación de territorios indígenas en La Muskitia hondureña

By Filippo Del Gatto - Forest Trends

Policy Brief: Research and Financial Innovations in Support of Brazil’s INDC Process

With less than five months to go before the UN climate summit in Paris, a 90% reduction in deforestation nation-wide is within reach for Brazil. Combined with the country’s recent pledge to reforest 12M hectares of land, this reduction would allow the world’s most forest-rich tropical nation to achieve zero net deforestation and zero net […]

Manual: Serviços Ambientais no Corredor Etnoambiental Tupi Mondé

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Manual: Serviços Ambientais no Corredor Etnoambiental Tupi Mondé

Caderno de Atividades

Assessing the Potential of Climate-Smart Cocoa Insurance

There is now widespread consensus that Ghana should adopt a climate-smart cocoa (CSC) approach, and significant steps have been made towards implementing this vision. A CSC Working Group established in 2011 identified key gaps that needed to be addressed or improved for CSC to reach a desired future state, and recommended a focus on increasing […]

Conversion Timber, Forest Monitoring, and Land-Use Governance in Cambodia

  Click here to download the report [6 MB] Click here to download the printable report(NOTE: large file!) [28 MB] Click here to download the press release In many countries, the accelerated clearing of forests for agricultural purposes has resulted in the rapid growth of so-called “conversion timber” in recent years. Cambodia is no execption. […]