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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What Do We Know about Gender and Other Social Impacts of IWS Projects?
A Literaure Review
By Michael Richards - Forest Trends
Community Forestry in Honduras: A Path towards Better Governance
Forest Trends Information Brief No. 8
By Filippo Del Gatto - Forest TrendsWith the aim of better informing policy discussions about community forestry in Honduras, such as those that will be held in the context of the proposed Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA), this Information Brief explores the links between community forestry and local forest governance in the country. It provides evidence that community-based forest enterprises can contribute […]
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La Forestería Comunitaria en Honduras: Un camino hacia una mejor gobernanza forestal
Forest Trends Information Brief No. 8
By Filippo Del Gatto - Forest Trends
State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2013
Maneuvering the Mosaic
By Molly Peters-Stanley, Daphne Yin30 May 2013 | Washington, D.C. | Voluntary demand for carbon offsetting grew 4% in 2012, when buyers committed more than $523 million to offset 101 million metric tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. Private sector buyers flocked to offsets earned by planting trees, saving tropical forests, or distributing clean cookstoves in the developing world, according to […]
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Maniobrando el Mosaico
El Estado de los Mercados Volunarios de Carbono 2013 - Resumen Ejecutivo
By Molly Peters-Stanley, Daphne YinEmail Signup
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Recommendations from Katoomba China – Global
Policymakers, natural resource managers, researchers, and expert practitioners from 13 Chinese provinces and 15 countries recently convened at Katoomba XVIII: Forests, Water, and People in Beijing to advance investments in natural infrastructure for water security in an urbanizing world. The setting reflected China’s global leadership in eco-compensation as well as regional opportunities to improve the […]
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Advanced REDD+ Finance
Leveraging public finance to attract private sector dollars to REDD+ and related activities
By David Tepper, Sarah Lowery - Forest Trends, Forest TrendsThe amount of REDD+ financing committed by the public and private sectors is substantially less than the amount of finance needed to decrease deforestation and degradation in the next decade. To attract financing to REDD+ and related activities such as climate smart, zero deforestation agriculture, we have the opportunity to create innovative and integrated financial […]
Ghana’s REDD+ Registry
Pathways to Development
By Rebecca Ashley Asare, Yaw Kwakye, Ernest Foli - Forest Trends, Ghana Forestry Commission, Forestry Research Institute of GhanaThe emerging mechanism of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) presents opportunities for developing countries to contribute to climate change mitigation and benefit from associated financial flows. Ghana has been an active participant in this international process aimed at mitigating climate change, which poses a major threat to humankind on a global scale. […]
Combating Illegal Logging in Asia
A Review of Progress and the Role of the Asia Forest Partnership 2002-2012
By Robert B. Oberndorf - Forest TrendsForests in Asia play a critical role in providing a variety of services that millions of people depend upon for their livelihoods and social stability. They also contain most of the Asia-Pacific region’s terrestrial biodiversity. By the turn of the Millennium, the forests of the region, particularly in the tropics, were acknowledged to be in […]
Climate-Smart Cocoa in Ghana
Achievements and a way forward
Cocoa is a $1.5 billion industry in Ghana.Ghana’s cocoa authority and regulatory body, Cocobod, aims to make Ghana, the number one best quality producer of cocoa in the world . This strategy, according to the government, necessitates cocoa becoming, a sustainable product in a way that takes good care of the environment and also gives […]
Taking Stock
Payments for Forest Ecosystem Services in the United States
By D. Evan Mercer, David Cooley, Katherine Hamilton
Patrones y factores de deforestación en el Ecuador continental, 1990-2010
By Rodrigo SierraThis document analyzes the shifting historical trends in deforestation drivers and agents and provides a model projecting deforestation trends to 2020. The publication points to continuing changes in land-use patterns as Ecuador slowly moves towards a forest transition. Increasing urbanization, demographic shifts, consolidation of infrastructure and intensification agricultural production are contributing to a decline in […]