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Water

Charting New Waters

State of Watershed Payments 2012

By Genevieve Bennett, Nathaniel Carroll, Katherine Hamilton

State of Watershed Payments 2012 is the second installment of the most comprehensive inventory to date of initiatives around the world that are paying individuals and communities to revive or preserve water-friendly features of the landscape. The number of initiatives that protect and restore forests, wetlands, and other water-rich ecosystems has nearly doubled in just […]

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Trazando las Nuevas Aguas

By Genevieve Bennett, Nathaniel Carroll, Katherine Hamilton - Ecosystem Marketplace, Ecosystem Marketplace, Ecosystem Marketplace
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2012年流域服务支付状况

勾画水资源新蓝图 - 执行摘要 (Charting New Waters - Exec Summ in Chinese)

By Genevieve Bennett, Nathaniel Carroll, Katherine Hamilton - Ecosystem Marketplace, Ecosystem Marketplace, Ecosystem Marketplace
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Executive Summary: Charting New Waters

State of Watershed Payments 2012

By Genevieve Bennett, Nathaniel Carroll, Katherine Hamilton
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State of Watershed Payments Report (Executive Summary for Business)

By Genevieve Bennett, Nathaniel Carroll - Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace, Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace
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Communities

Poverty Impact Assessment for Reducing Social Risks and Enhancing Pro-Poor Outcomes of Voluntary Partnership Agreements

Forest Trends Information Brief No. 4

By Michael Richards - Forest Trends

This Information Brief describes the role of poverty impact assessment in the context of Voluntary Partnership Agreements (VPAs) between tropical timber-producing countries and the European Union. Ex ante poverty impact assessment can be a powerful tool for design, monitoring and adaptive management of a VPA. This Brief describes a possible approach to poverty impact assessment […]

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Communities

Experiencias en Compensación por Servicios Ambientales en América Latina

By Sebastian Charchalac Santay

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Climate Forests Investments

State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2012

Leveraging the Landscape

By Molly Peters-Stanley, Katherine Hamilton, Daphne Yin - Ecosystem Marketplace, Ecosystem Marketplace, Ecosystem Marketplace

The report, which aggregates data from 415 individual forest carbon projects historically, was published Thursday by Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace, a world-leading provider of news, data and analytics on environmental markets and investments in conservation. The report examines a variety of strategies for injecting financial resources into projects that save or plant forests that capture […]

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Executive Summary: Leveraging the Landscape

State of the Forest Carbon Markets 2012

By Molly Peters-Stanley, Katherine Hamilton, Daphne Yin - Ecosystem Marketplace, Ecosystem Marketplace, Ecosystem Marketplace
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Biodiversity Communities

Standard on Biodiversity Offsets

By BBOP

This Standard on Biodiversity Offsets has been prepared by the Business and Biodiversity Offsets Programme (BBOP) to help auditors, developers, conservation groups, communities, governments and financial institutions that wish to assess biodiversity offsets against the BBOP Principles, Criteria and Indicators.

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Communities

Participatory Social Impact Assessment for Natural Resource Projects and Programs

By Michael Richards - Forest Trends

There is a growing realization that good practice Social Impact Assessment (SIA) is an issue of self-interest; it can strengthen social sustainability, reduce investor risks and transaction costs, inform adaptive management, and build stakeholder ownership when undertaken in a participatory way. Participatory SIA is also compatible with a rights-based approach to development, especially free prior […]

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Communities Water

Managing Water

Potential Contributions of Investments in Watershed Services and Linkages to Poverty Reduction

We are facing a growing number, and increasing range, of water issues. As with climate change, when it comes to water, we are on an inevitable collision course with global disaster. So what is the answer? One suite of tools that, in certain situations, could help to address water problems are watershed payments. Watershed payments […]

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Climate

The Opportunity for Agriculture

Becoming Climate-Smart and Sequestering Carbon

The future of agricultural productivity is intertwined with climate change. Agriculture is a significant contributor to GHG emissions (10-12% of all emissions); at the same time, many agricultural areas are facing changes in mean temperature, precipitation, and increasing climate variability, all of which may impact their harvests. As a result, it will be essential for […]

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Communities

Is Equitable REDD+ Possible?

The Role of Social Safeguards, Standards, and Impact Assessment in Reducing Risks and Enhancing Outcomes

By Michael Richards - Forest Trends

The main focus in the early years of terrestrial carbon markets has been on assuring the environmental integrity of carbon offsets, while social and biodiversity objectives – the so-called ‘co-benefits’ – have received much less attention. But with the mainstreaming of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) as a climate change mitigation strategy, […]

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Es Posible una REDD+ Equitativa?

By Michael Richards - Forest Trends
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A New Approach to Forging Public-Private Alliances around Sustainable Land Management

Today, we face twin challenges of maximizing the effectiveness of publicly funded sustainable land management and identifying incentives to attract private capital to these investments. To do so, there is a need to transform land-use policy objectives into larger-scale sustainable land management and environmental investments. Given the scale of the challenge, we need to move […]