Consolidating National REDD+ Accounting and Subnational Activities in Ghana
By Thiago Chagas, Robert O'Sullivan, Carina Bracer, Charlotte Streck - Climate Focus, Climate Focus, Climate Focus, Climate FocusForest 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
By Rebecca Vonada, Beto Borges - Forest Trends, Forest TrendsThe 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
By Ecosystem Marketplace, Forest Trends, Katoomba GroupGlobal 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 […]
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Beyond Borders
PES and REDD in the ASEAN Region
By Ecosystem Marketplace, Forest Trends, Katoomba GroupAn 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
By Tracy Stanton, Marta Echavarria, Katherine Hamilton, Caroline Ott - Ecosystem Marketplace, Ecosystem Marketplace, Ecosystem Marketplace, Ecosystem MarketplaceHow 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 […]
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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 MarketplaceManual for Social Impact Assessment of Land-Based Carbon Projects
Part I - Core Guidance for Project Proponents
By Michael Richards, Steve Panfil - Forest Trends, CCBAForest 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 […]
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Manual para la Evaluación del Impacto Social de los Proyectos de Carbono Terrestre
By Michael Richards, Steve Panfil - Forest Trends, CCBAManual for Social Impact Assessment of Land-Based Carbon Projects
Part II - Toolbox of Methods and Support Materials
By Michael Richards, Steve Panfil - Forest Trends, CCBAForest 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 […]
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Manual para la Evaluación del Impacto Social de los Proyectos de Carbono Terrestre
By Michael Richards, Steve Panfil - Forest Trends, CCBAState of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2010
Building Bridges
By Kate Hamilton, Milo Sjardin, Molly Peters-Stanley, Thomas MarcelloThis fourth annual State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets report is designed to give a market‐wide perspective on trading volumes, credit prices, project types, locations, and the motivations of buyers in this market. Findings are based on data voluntarily reported by 200 offset suppliers, as well as exchanges and registries. Because of the challenges of […]
The REDD Opportunities Scoping Exercise
A Tool for Prioritizing Sub-National REDD+ Activities - Case Studies from Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda
By Michael Richards - Forest TrendsThis 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 TrendsThe REDD Opportunities Scoping Exercise for Ghana
ROSE Expert Workshop
By Michael Richards - Forest TrendsThe REDD Opportunities Scoping Exercise (ROSE), Uganda
By Sara Namirembe, Onesmus Mugyenyi - Forest Trends/Katoomba Incubator, ACODEKatoomba Issue Brief
REDD Opportunities in Uganda
By Slayde Hawkins - Forest Trends/Katoomba IncubatorAprendiendo sobre Pagos por Servicios Ambientales
El propósito de este manual es introducir líderes comunitarios, agentes del gobierno, técnicos de ONGs y otros actores a los conceptos básicos relacionados al cambio climático y pagos por servicios ambientales, con un enfoque en el mercado de carbono, de una forma clara y didáctica.