COLOMBIA: Seguimiento a la Financiación de REDD+ 2009-2012
Colombia es uno de los países con mayor biodiversidad en el mundo, donde el 53% de su territorio se encuentra cubierto por bosques tropicales, los cuales constituyen un 6.42% de la oferta total de cobertura boscosa tropical para Suramérica tropical y el 1.5% de los bosques del mundo. Sin embargo, las diferentes dinámicas de desarrollo […]
MÉXICO: Seguimiento del Financiamiento para REDD+ 2009-2012
México cuenta con 64.8 millones de hectáreas de bosques y selvas, aproximadamente un tercio de la superficie total del país.En México, REDD+ es sinónimo de desarrollo rural sustentable, un enfoque que permite alinear los incentivos del sector forestal con los de otros sectores que inciden en el mismo territorio (e.g. agropecuario, turismo).Actualmente, la Estrategia Nacional […]
State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2014
Sharing the Stage
By Molly Peters-Stanley, Gloria Gonzalez28 May 2014 | Washington, D.C. | In a bid to reduce their impact on greenhouse gas emissions, corporate leaders like Chevrolet, Marks & Spencer, and Allianz continued to voluntarily purchase carbon offsets in 2013, locking 76 million metric tonnes of greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere, according to the annual State of the Voluntary Carbon […]
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Analysis of Russian Roundwood Act
In December 2013 Russia amended its federal Forest Code. This policy brief describes the scope and requirements of the Act and analyzes implications for processors and importers of Russian timber, giving special consideration to the law’s potential to minimize risk as part of a due diligence system.
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Understanding and Defining Climate-Smart Cocoa
Extension, Inputs, Yields, and Farming Practices
By Rebecca Ashley Asare, Nature Conservation Research Centre - Forest TrendsGhana has identified its extensive cocoa cultivation as a major driver of deforestation and forest degradation. The Ghana Cocoa Board is committed to making Ghana the number one best quality producer of cocoa in the world, improving sustainability through a Climate-Smart Cocoa (CSC) approach that includes mitigation, increases in yield, and economic development that centers […]
Conflicts in Vietnam’s Forest Areas: Implications for FLEGT and REDD+
ETFRN News 55: March 2014
By Phuc Xuan To, Thomas Sikor - Forest Trends, University of East AngliaConflicts over land are rampant in Vietnam. Land conflicts are the subject of more than 70% of the written complaints received by Vietnamese government offices in recent years and could undermine Vietnam’s initiatives on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+). However, these initiatives also present an […]
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Environmental Aspects of China’s Papermaking Fiber Supply – Update
By Jeremy Williams - ArborVitae Environmental Services Ltd.In 2007, Forest Trends commissioned Brian Stafford of Brian Stafford & Associates Pty Ltd to provide an analysis of China’s paper making industry’s fiber supply. At that time, China accounted for over 50 percent of the world’s overall growth in paper and paperboard production. It was deemed important to understand the structure of all of […]
Jurisdictional REDD+ Bonds: Leveraging Private Finance for Forest Protection, Development, and Sustainable Agriculture Supply Chains
REDD+ finance is designed to conserve and enhance forests across the developing world, but it needs a jump-start of its own – especially at the national and sub-national levels. Jurisdictional REDD+ Bonds could be part of the solution. Many jurisdictions (municipalities, departments, states, countries) have reduced their rates of deforestation and are making progress on […]
Bridging Financing Gaps
By Sarah Lowery, David Tepper, Rupert EdwardsThe amount of capital deployed through REDD+ is just a small percentage of what is needed. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation by 50 percent will require between $17 and $33 billion per year, but only $4.5 billion was deployed for REDD+ was through 2012. And forest carbon markets’ value was estimated at USD […]
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Cerrando las Brechas de Financiemiento del Desarrollo de Bajas Emisiones Rurales a Través de Estrategias Integradas de Financiemiento
By Sarah Lowery, David Tepper, Rupert Edwards
Chinese Overseas Investment in Forestry and Industries with High Impact on Forests
Official Guidelines and Credit Policies for Chinese Enterprises Operating and Investing Abroad
By Duncan BrackThis paper examines the evolving framework for outward FDI in relation to legal compliance and responsible implementation of overseas investment projects affecting forestry and forest areas.