Resources tagged "equity"
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Pro-poor benefit distribution in REDD+: Who gets what and why does it matter?Ensuring the poor or the most vulnerable sections of society benefit from REDD+ is key mainly to build both national and international legitimacy, and foster successful delivery of conservation and social objectives. This paper aims to look at some of the issues related to benefit distribution at village and household level.
Linking community monitoring with national MRV for REDD+On Sept 12-14 2011, the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility of the World Bank and the Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México organized a workshop in Mexico City to explore how community monitoring can link with and contribute to national systems of Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) under national programs for Reduced Emissi...
Fair and green? Social impacts of payments for environmental services in Costa RicaUnder the programme of payments for environmental services (PES) programme, economic recognition of forests moved from a ‘timber-only’ approach to a wider concept of ecosystem services that feeds directly into human and industrial functions of production or consumption. But who really benefits and loses from PES? A clearer understanding of distributional issues in PES-type projects is bec...
Snapshot of REDD+ in Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea has been a leading proponent of REDD+ at the international level. However, domestic conditions have frustrated efforts to create an enabling environment for REDD+, and the progress of readiness3 activities and pilot projects has been slow. This snapshot aims to provide a brief overview of the context for REDD+ in Papua New Guinea, the evolution of REDD+ to date, and key issue...
Unlocking Forest Bonds: A high-level workshop on innovative finance for tropical forests A summary of the discussion and topics of the workshop hosted by WWF Forest & Climate Initiative, Global Canopy Programme (GCP) and Climate Bonds Initiative on forest finance. The workshop explores in particular the potential for forest bonds to finance low carbon development.
REDD+ and promoting synergies for climate change mitigation and adaptationA blog entry by Climate Himalaya on how REDD+ fits into India's Forest Right Act (FRA) Committee and how FRA should be implemented in order to protect local communities.
Rights, Authorities and Power: Forest Tenure Transition in Indonesia in relation to REDDThis presentation covers the general situation and history of forest tenure in Indonesia before considering how REDD and the concept of carbon rights can transform forest tenure in Indonesia. It considers the challenges that including REDD and carbon rights in national law could create and the problems that REDD could cause for forest tenure in Indonesia.
REDD+ and the Indigenous question: A Case Study from EcuadorThis case study explores the challenge of constructing a strong legal, financial, and institutional framework in Ecuador for the implementation of REDD+ which indigenous peoples will accept, and which will not infringe their forest rights.
REDD-plus, forest people's rights and nested climate governance This draft paper discusses how forest people's rights can be operationalised under REDD-plus, citing the importance of participation in political decision making, equitable distribution of forest benefits, and recognition of forest people’s particular identities as importance principles under which to achieve this. In addition the paper emphasises a need for nested forest and climate govern...
Statutory and Customary Forest Rights and their Governance Implications: The case of VietnamPublished by the International Union for Conservation in Nature (IUCN) in Vietnam as part of the Strengthening Voices for Better Choices (SVBC), this document aims to promote the adoption of improved forest governance arrangements in Viet Nam and five other tropical forest countries in Asia, Africa and South America. These arrangements cover policy, legal, institutional and economic structure...