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Climate Change, Agricultural Policy and Poverty Reduction: how much do we know?This paper seeks to identify the likely impacts of climate change on agricultural production and the scope for reducing poverty. It establishes the likely impacts of climate change on the physical asset base, on access the assets, and on global cereal production, and also analyses the relationship between climate change, growth and poverty reduction. It also presents policy conclusions drawn ...
How do we achieve REDD co-benefits and avoid doing harm? This chapter looks at various REDD design options and considers the extent to which these can be made compatible with desired co-benefits, and avoid doing harm; accordingly, this chapter will briefly summarise opportunities and challenges of direct relevance to negotiations on the global architecture of an agreement on REDD, as well as implications for REDD implementation at the national leve...
International Forest Policy: Integrated climate and forestry policy optionsThis article provides an overview of carbon finance initiatives and proposals, and analyses these from the perspective of climate change mitigation, biodiversity and other environmental issues, and development. It furthermore offers recommendations on how to promote a pro-poor forest agenda for UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) negotiations, the spending of revenu...
Communities and Carbon: Establishing a community forestry - REDD project in CambodiaThis is a case study of a community-based REDD project in Oddar Meanchey, Cambodia. The study analyses the drivers of deforestation in the region and examines several aspects of project implementation including land rights and tenure, technical support, participation of local communities, strategies for reducing deforestation and mechanisms for sharing benefits. The study concludes by present...
Organization and Governance for Fostering Pro-poor Compensation for Environmental ServicesThe purpose of this paper is to assess the requirements, current state and key issues related to the organization and governance in the compensation and reward for ecosystem services (CRES) needed to achieve pro-poor outcomes. Specifically, the paper identifies organisational characteristics of current CRES systems and evaluates elements of existing CRES. It further draws out lessons on effec...
Filling the REDD Basket: Complementary Financing ApproachesThis article discusses three major categories of potential REDD funding: direct carbon market, market-linked, and voluntary sources. For each funding approach, advantages and disadvantages are considered, and so are hybrid approaches, which combine different sources of financing for different aspects of REDD in different time periods.
What REDD Can Do: The Economics and Development of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest DegradationThe report establishes how to estimate how much greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced by systems that fund reductions in deforestation in tropical countries, and also to estimate how long it may take to realize this potential. It concludes to show that the low cost of REDD does not mean that it can contain costs of international climate change mitigation in the short run.
Out of the Woods: A realistic role for Tropical Forests in curbing Global WarmingThis report explores the economic potential of REDD in climate change mitigation. It argues that there are some political and institutional constraints that may hinder the development of a global REDD scheme even if it represents a cost-effective way of mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. The report concludes by arguing that estimations of the cost of REDD implementation should be presented ...
Estimating the Costs of REDD: an Overview of ApproachesThis talk focuses on a number of approaches to estimating the costs of REDD, including a variety of models (local/regional emission-based, global emission based and global simulation models) as well as considering various costs (such as opportunity costs, as well as implementation, transaction, and stabilization costs). It furthermore highlights institutional aspects of participation and poin...
An assessment of monitoring requirements and costs of 'Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation'This article assesses the costs of monitoring REDD based on available technologies and requirements associated with key elements of REDD policy. The main finding is that the REDD policy framework (and specifically its rules) can have a significant impact on monitoring costs. It concludes to show that although monitoring costs are relatively small compared to other cost items within a REDD sys...