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415 results.
Improving the Clarity, Transparency, and Accountability of FCPF Decisionmaking This memo to the FCPF examines some of the areas in which compliance of the organisation with its charter and safeguard policies has lacked.
Cost of implementing methodologies and monitoring systems relating to estimates of emissions from deforestation and forest degradationThis paper provides an overview of the possible steps and requirements needed to develop and implement a monitoring system for estimating emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, assessing carbon stocks and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from changes in forest cover, and assessing the enhancement of forest carbon stocks. It also illustrates elements that developing countries may n...
Background analysis of REDD regulatory frameworksThis report provides an overview of the activities that a selection of developed and developing countries are taking to develop policy and legislative frameworks to enable REDD activities to take place. The paper has been written as a high-level strategic analysis to support the design and implementation of national legal frameworks for "REDD", broadly defined, by analyzing existing approache...
Measuring and Monitoring Terrestrial Carbon as Part of REDD+ MRV Systems: The State of the Science and Implications for Policy MakersThis policy brief examines the technical design considerations of measuring and monitoring mechanisms for the implementation of MRV systems at the national level. It outlines the basic methods for measuring and monitoring terrestrial carbon, outlines important design considerations for countries designing national measuring and monitoring systems and raises some issues to be considered by pol...
Forestry and the Carbon Market Response to stabilize climateThis paper examines the role that forestry could play in the context of CO2 stabilisation. It develops an intertemporal model of carbon abatement in the energy and land-using sectors in order to examine the possible role of forestry in climate stabilisation policy. It concludes that forests will play a crucial role in keeping down the costs of climate policy, as they could contribute to 33% o...
Assessing the livelihood impacts of Payments for Environmental Servies: Implications for Avoided DeforestationThis paper addresses the potential livelihood impacts of incentive payments for REDD by addressing the questions of what have been the impacts on livelihoods of existing payments for environmental services schemes and what the implications for the design of REDD activities are. The paper employs a comparative case study approach, using eight case studies of payment for environmental services ...
The Challenge of Urgency: Incentivizing Private Sector Early Action in REDD+This article looks at the benefits of early implementation in REDD and examines various means to incentivise the private sector to adopt early action. It is argued that significant structural and institutional reforms, such as land tenure to law enforcement capacity are required to reduce deforestation effectively, efficiently and equitably in REDD+, yet these reforms could take years, or eve...
Key Technical Issues Relevant to CDM Forestry ProjectsThis note describes how the inclusion of project activities from the land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector into the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) frameworks has been the source of controversy. It particularly highlights issues relating to the loss of temporarily stored carbon (the permanence problem), the accounting of real emissions removals...
REDD Institutional Options Assessment ReportThis report summarises and analyses the institutional issues that must be considered in order to establish an effective, efficient and equitable institutional structure for REDD+ at a global scale. It explores three models of institutional arrangements that have been developed for REDD+, and also analyses some of the national structures for REDD+ implementation as it suggests that the success...
Stern Review on the Economics of Climate ChangeThis review examines the economic impacts of climate change and explores the economics of stabilising greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere. The report suggests that avoided deforestation policies should be shaped at the national level but supported by the international community and explores the role of carbon markets in providing incentives for forest conservation.