Publications

Payments for Ecosystem Services: Getting Started in Marine and Coastal Ecosystems

A Primer

Healthy and robust marine ecosystems provide the underpinnings for profitable industries and support coastal communities throughout the world. In addition, oceans play crucial roles in regulating the atmosphere and modulating weather, storing carbon, cycling nutrients, and providing other ecosystem services. Coastal areas provide essential resources, buffer land from storms, and provide living space for almost […]

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Pago por Servicios Ambientales

Primeros Pasos en Ecosistemas Marinos y Costeros - PROYECTO/DRAFT

Paying Poseidon: Financing the Protection of Valuable Ecosystem Services

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 land-use practices — both of which can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by capturing carbon in trees […]

Beyond Carbon

Biodiversity and Water Markets

It is widely acknowledged that well-functioning ecosystems provide reliable and clean flows of water, productive soils, healthy and balanced biota, and many other services for human well-being. It is also widely documented that today many ecosystems and the services they provide are under threat. The use of markets and market-based mechanisms to conserve and pay […]

Timber Markets and Trade between Laos and Vietnam

A Commodity Chain Analysis of Vietnamese-Driven Timber Flows

The Vietnamese wood manufacturing industry has expanded rapidly in recent years, becoming one of the largest furniture exporters in the world. With more than 2,000 wood processing and 450 wood export companies in Vietnam, about 4.5 million m3 of raw wood materials are imported each year from other countries around the world. With approximately 11 […]

Payments for Ecosystem Services

Getting Started

This primer forms part of the activities implemented within the Global Strategy for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Follow-Up, and offers a starting point from which to assess the potential for PES in specific communities around the world. It also provides pointers for designing and planning PES transactions. Community-benefit driven, or pro-poor PES, is the main […]

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Getting Started – Portuguese

Getting Started – Spanish

Giới thiệu – Tiếng Việt

Forests

Taking Root in the Voluntary Carbon Markets

Over the past year, the term ‘REDD’ (reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation) has risen from obscure acronym to hot-button issue for policymakers, conservation groups, investors and academics across the globe, with good reason. According the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), land-use change accounts for approximately 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions—more emissions than […]

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Florestas

O Setor Florestal nos Mercados Voluntarios Carbono

China and East Asia Program

Overview of China-East Asia Information Bulletin Series

This is an overview document of the China and East Asia Program’s Information Bulletin Series, which provides summaries of all the Information Bulletins in one succinct document. Issues covered in the Bulletin are related to China and its trade in forest products with producer countries in the Asia-Pacific region. The full length Information Bulletins are […]

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ISSUE 6: THE EU FOREST LAW ENFORECEMENT, GOVERNANCE AND TRADE ACTION PLAN

Chinese version only

By X. Sun

ISSUE 7: ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS OF CHINA’S WASTEPAPER IMPORTS

English version

By B. Stafford

ISSUE 8: ROLE MODELS IN CHINA’S FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRY: COMPANIES DEVELOPING CHAIN-OF-CUSTODY SYSTEMS TO PROTECT AGAINST ILLEGAL OR UNSUSTAINABLE WOOD SOURCING

English version

By M. Brady & Kerstin Canby

ISSUE 9: WHY CHINA PREFERS LOGS : EXPLAINING THE PREVALENCE OF UNPROCESSED WOOD IN CHINA’S TIMBER IMPORTS

English version

ISSUE 1: CHINA AND THE GLOBAL MARKET FOR FOREST PRODUCTS: SUMMARY

Available in Chinese only

By A. White, X. Sun, K. Canby, J. Xu, C. Barr, E. Katsigris, G. Bull, C. Cossalter and S. Nilsson. Chinese translation by X. Sun

ISSUE 2: ILLEGAL LOGGING BRIEFING PAPER

Available in Chinese only

By Chinese translation by X. Sun of a briefing paper by D. Brack - Chatham House UK

ISSUE 3: LINKING TIMBER TRADE AND FOREST PRACTICE

English version

ISSUE 4: OVERVIEW OF THE WOOD PRODUCTS TRADE BETWEEN CHINA AND RUSSIA

ISSUE 5: HELPING LIBERIA ESCAPE CONFLICT TIMBER

English version

By K. Canby. Chinese translation by X. Sun

Markets for Ecosystem Services in China

An Exploration of China's "Eco-Compensation" and Other Market-Based Environmental Policies

This report documents recent policy innovations for the conservation and management of ecosystem services in China. Policymakers have become increasingly interested in developing new approaches to address China’s multiplying conservation challenges and resource constraints in face of break-neck economic growth. This has led China’s central and local governments to rapidly expand the range of policy […]

Adding Value

Can FLEGT Voluntary Partnership Agreements Lead to Increased Investment and Trade for Partner Countries?

In May 2003, the European Union published its proposal for a Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan which sets out a range of measures that aim to tackle the global problem of illegal logging and associated trade, including financial and technical support to achieve improved forest governance in developing timber-producing countries. It […]

Getting It Right

Emerging Markets for Storing Carbon in Forests

Forests offer one of the most cost-effective opportunities for storing or sequestering carbon. This report is directly relevant to companies in any industry – not just forest products. Indeed, there are clear co-benefits to be gained from companies interested in carbon offsets, and forestland managers and conservationists in temperate and tropical settings in need of […]