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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Assessing the Potential of Climate-Smart Cocoa Insurance
By Justin D. McKinley, Rebecca A. Asare, L. Lanier NalleyThere 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 […]
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Conversion Timber, Forest Monitoring, and Land-Use Governance in Cambodia
By Forest TrendsClick 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. […]
Full Circle: REDD and Indigenous People
Past, Present, and Future
Indigenous people have managed their land sustainably for hundreds of years. They have, as a result, contributed the least to climate change and have even prevented large amounts of carbon from being released into the atmosphere through forest clearing and degradation. However, unless something changes soon, they will suffer the most from its consequences. If […]
State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2015
Ahead of the Curve
By Kelley HamrickJune 3, 2015 | Washington, D.C. | Companies, governments, and individuals voluntarily spent just under $4.5 billion on conservation and clean energy over the past decade by purchasing nearly 1 billion carbon offsets, finds a new report released on the sidelines of this week’s international climate talks in Bonn, Germany. The Forest Trends Ecosystem Marketplace […]
Vietnam’s Wood Villages
Relevance for FLEGT and REDD+
By Phuc Xuan ToThis Information Brief summarizes results from a 2012 field study on Vietnamese wood villages and discusses implications for FLEGT and REDD+. The brief is a summary of a full report available in Vietnamese which was written by Tô Xuân Phúc, Nguyễn Tôn Quyền, Lê Duy Phương, Cao Thị Cẩm.
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Village-Based Wood Products Manufacturing in Vietnam: Implications for FLEGT and REDD+ Implementation
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By Phuc Xuan To, Dang Viet Quang - Forest Trends, Forest Trends
Vietnam’s Small-Scale Sawmills in the Context of the FLEGT-VPA
By Quang Viet Dang - Forest TrendsThis Information Brief and its underlying research were financed by the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD) and the German Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ).
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Vietnam’s Wood Chip Industry
Status of the Sector in 2012 and Challenges for Future Development
By Phuc Xuan To - Forest TrendsThis Information Brief analyzes Vietnam’s rapidly growing wood chip sector and discusses challenges for its development. The brief is a summary of a full report available in Vietnamese which was written by Tran Le Huy and To Xuan Phuc.
Supply Change: Corporations, Commodities, and Commitments that Count
A transformational resource for businesses, investors, governments, and the civil society organizations that support and hold them accountable
By Molly Peters-Stanley, Stephen Donofrio, Ben McCarthy - Ecosystem Marketplace, Ecosystem Marketplace, Ecosystem MarketplaceThe Issue Commercial agriculture drives at least two-thirds of tropical deforestation. The worst of these forest impacts come from a few agricultural commodities – palm oil, soy, timber & pulp, and cattle – which are valuable inputs to millions of consumer products, from snack foods to shampoos to clothing to paper to housing materials. The […]