State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2013
Covering New Ground
By Forest Trends' Ecosystem MarketplaceCarbon finance is supporting the management of forests spanning 26.5 million hectares worldwide after businesses in 2012 injected a near-record $216 million into projects that plant trees, avoid deforestation, improve forest management, and support low-carbon agriculture. These projects, a key defense against the ecological and socio-economic impacts of climate change, were financed by the sale […]
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Cubriendo Nuevos Suelos: El Estado de los Mercados de Carbono Forestal 2013 – Resumen Ejecutivo
By Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace
Investments in Watershed Services for Moyobamba on Subwatersheds of the Alto Mayo, Department of San Martín, Peru
Peru Investments in Watershed Services Series
Recognizing the need to provide national leadership, capacity-building, and coordination to the many local and regional mechanisms facilitating investments in ecosystem services throughout Peru, the Ministry of Environment of Peru (MINAM) partnered with Forest Trends to establish the Peru Ecosystem Services Incubator in 2012. The Incubator aims to enhance investments in nature by society through […]
Investments in Watershed Services for the Cañete Watershed, Department of Lima, Peru
Peru Investments in Watershed Services Series
Recognizing the need to provide national leadership, capacity-building, and coordination to the many local and regional mechanisms facilitating investments in ecosystem services throughout Peru, the Ministry of Environment of Peru (MINAM) partnered with Forest Trends to establish the Peru Ecosystem Services Incubator in 2012. The Incubator aims to enhance investments in nature by society through […]
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Investments in Watershed Services for the Jequetepeque Watershed in Northwestern Peru, Departments of Cajamarca and La Libertad
Peru Investments in Watershed Services Series
Recognizing the need to provide national leadership, capacity-building, and coordination to the many local and regional mechanisms facilitating investments in ecosystem services throughout Peru, the Ministry of Environment of Peru (MINAM) partnered with Forest Trends to establish the Peru Ecosystem Services Incubator in 2012. The Incubator aims to enhance investments in nature by society through […]
Investments in Watershed Services for the Rimac Watershed, Department of Lima, Peru
Peru Investments in Watershed Services Series
Recognizing the need to provide national leadership, capacity-building, and coordination to the many local and regional mechanisms facilitating investments in ecosystem services throughout Peru, the Ministry of Environment of Peru (MINAM) partnered with Forest Trends to establish the Peru Ecosystem Services Incubator in 2012. The Incubator aims to enhance investments in nature by society through […]
2012 Results Report
Sharing Progress on the Path to Adoption of Clean Cooking Solutions
By Forest Trends' Ecosystem MarketplaceThe Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves (Alliance) was launched in 2010 with a goal to drive the adoption of clean cookstoves and fuels in 100 million households by 2020. In pursuit of this objective, the combined efforts reported by a wide range of Alliance partners working on different aspects of the issue are having positive […]
Ending Global Deforestation
Policy Options for Consumer Countries
By Duncan Brack, Rob BaileyLegal as well as illegal land clearance for agriculture is significant global driver of deforestation. Consumers and retailers are not able to identify the differences between imports of legal, illegal or unsustainable agricultural commodities produced on these lands. Efforts to tackle illegal logging and improve forest governance over the past ten years have included measures […]
Workshop Information and Agenda: Conversion of Forestlands to Rubber Plantations
Opportunities and Challenges
The VPA in Honduras
An Opportunity to Take Forward the Forestry Reform Started with the 2007 Forestry Law
This Information Brief revises and updates a previous version of the same article that was published in February 2013. With the aim of supporting civil society engagement in the VPA process in Honduras, the brief describes some of the key forest governance challenges that the country faces as well as some emerging priorities of local […]
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El AVA en Honduras
Una oportunidad para continuar la reforma forestal iniciada con la Ley Forestal de 2007
By Filippo Del Gatto
Initial Recommendations for the Social Impact Assessment (SIA) in Investments in Watershed Services Programs
By Michael Richards, Tuyeni Mwampamba - Forest TrendsThe main objective of this paper is to provide recommendations on the social impact assessment (SIA) of investments for watershed services (IWS) projects or programs. The paper draws on an extensive literature on the theory and practice of SIA, on the authors’ experiences of applying SIA in other natural resource contexts, and on discussions from […]
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