Publications

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. […]

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

June 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 Small-Scale Sawmills in the Context of the FLEGT-VPA

This 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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Xưởng Xẻ Gỗ Hộ Gia Đình Trong Bối Cảnh FLEGT-VPA

Vietnam’s Wood Chip Industry

Status of the Sector in 2012 and Challenges for Future Development

This 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.

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NGÀNH CÔNG NGHIỆP DĂM GỖ VIỆT NAM: THỰC TRẠNG VÀ XU HƯỚNG PHÁT TRIỂN TRONG TƯƠNG LAI