Publications

Environmental Funds and Payments for Ecosystem Services

RedLAC Capacity Building Project for Environmental Funds

RedLAC implements a capacity building project with the objective of strengthening the capacity of EFs to develop innovative financial mechanisms for biodiversity conservation, reducing their dependence on donations, and also to support the establishment of new EFs, by systematizing and sharing proven best practices in funds day to day operation. This book was prepared to […]

Budongo-Bugoma Landscape REDD+ Project

Feasibility Assessment

This potential REDD+ project aims to reduce deforestation and degradation and to promote regeneration of forests in the Budongo-Bugoma landscape in Western Uganda. It would mainly focus on a mosaic of private and community forests in 3 districts (Hoima, Kibaale, and Kyenjojo). Approximately 90,000 ha of high forest and 120,000 ha of woodland remain in […]

Consolidating National REDD+ Accounting and Subnational Activities in Ghana

Forest Trends engaged with Climate Focus to prepare an assessment of options for integrating subnational activities on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) into the design of the national REDD+ architecture in Ghana in a way that is consistent with the emerging international REDD+ policy. This assessment forms part of a broader effort […]

Aprendendo sobre Servicios Ambientais

The State of Acre, Brazil recently created a state PES scheme based on the carbon market, but also biodiversity and watershed services. This booklet contains key concepts about payment for ecosystem services; it was prepared for technical staff of the government in the state of Acre, Brazil.

Tools for the Tides

Exploring Coastal and Marine Markets

Global climate-change talks in Copenhagen might not have yielded a new greenhouse-gas protocol, but they did yield an agreement on the need to develop financing mechanisms that reward people in developing countries for saving their rainforests and adopting sustainable landuse practices — both of which can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by capturing carbon in trees […]

Beyond Borders

PES and REDD in the ASEAN Region

An Insight Series publication covering: Payments for Ecosystem Services: Scaling Up…and Down State of the Forest Carbon Markets Asia Round Peg, Square Hole: Forest Carbon under Existing Law in Southeast Asia Oddar Meanchey: REDD in Cambodia Participatory Forest Management EM Cheat Sheet: What is a Social Impact Assessment? Asian Governments Explore Ecosystem Markets for Environmental […]

State of Watershed Payments 2010

An Emerging Marketplace

How can we as a society address the many problems that plague the waterfront? How do we get people to be more mindful about their water use? How do we regulate pollution flowing into our waterways? How do we put a stop to the growing number of dead zones around the world? And how do […]

Dependent Documents

Executive Summary: State of Watershed Payments

An Emerging Marketplace

By Tracy Stanton, Marta Echavarria, Katherine Hamilton, Caroline Ott - Ecosystem Marketplace, Ecosystem Marketplace, Ecosystem Marketplace, Ecosystem Marketplace

Manual for Social Impact Assessment of Land-Based Carbon Projects

Part II - Toolbox of Methods and Support Materials

Forest Trends, CCBA, FFI, and Rainforest Alliance have published Version 1.0 of a Manual for Social Impact Assessment of Land-Based Carbon Projects. The Manual is designed to be used by carbon project proponents aiming for validation under the CCB Standards, or other multiple-benefit carbon standards. The NGOs involved in this initiative believe that a combination […]

Dependent Documents

Manual para la Evaluación del Impacto Social de los Proyectos de Carbono Terrestre

By Michael Richards, Steve Panfil - Forest Trends, CCBA

Manual for Social Impact Assessment of Land-Based Carbon Projects

Part I - Core Guidance for Project Proponents

Forest Trends, CCBA, FFI, and Rainforest Alliance have published Version 1.0 of a Manual for Social Impact Assessment of Land-Based Carbon Projects. The Manual is designed to be used by carbon project proponents aiming for validation under the CCB Standards, or other multiple-benefit carbon standards. The NGOs involved in this initiative believe that a combination […]

Dependent Documents

Manual para la Evaluación del Impacto Social de los Proyectos de Carbono Terrestre

By Michael Richards, Steve Panfil - Forest Trends, CCBA

The REDD Opportunities Scoping Exercise

A Tool for Prioritizing Sub-National REDD+ Activities - Case Studies from Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda

This report describes the REDD+ Opportunities Scoping Exercise (ROSE) methodology, and summarises the experience of developing and using it in three case study countries Tanzania, Uganda and Ghana. ROSE is a tool for classifying and prioritizing potential REDD+ sub-national activities, and for assessing critical constraints to project development, especially those associated with the legal, political, […]

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Implications of the Legal and Policy Framework for Tree and Forest Carbon in Ghana

REDD Opportunities Scoping Exercise

By Rebecca Asare - Forest Trends

The REDD Opportunities Scoping Exercise for Ghana

ROSE Expert Workshop

By Michael Richards - Forest Trends

Getting Started on REDD in Tanzania

A Scoping Study for the Katoomba Ecosystem Services Incubator

The REDD Opportunities Scoping Exercise (ROSE), Uganda

By Sara Namirembe, Onesmus Mugyenyi - Forest Trends/Katoomba Incubator, ACODE

Katoomba Issue Brief

REDD Opportunities in Uganda

By Slayde Hawkins - Forest Trends/Katoomba Incubator