Global governance
The role of global governance institutions, norms and conventions in establishing best practice at the international and national level.
Latest Documents
- A new global partnership: eradicate poverty and transform economies through sustainable development
- 2013
- The High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda's report sets out a universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty by 2030 through sustainable development. In the report, the Panel calls for the new post-2015 goals to drive fi...
- Study reviewing the comprehensiveness of REDD+ readiness proposals
- L. Goers Williams / World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2013
- The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility Readiness Fund and the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD) are supporting capacity building efforts in preparation fro...
- Governing the forests: an institutional analysis of REDD+ and community forest management in Asia
- J. Puppim de Oliveira; T. Cadman; H. Ok Ma / International Tropical Timber Organization, 2013
- This report examines the history, structure and monitoring mechanisms of REDD+ to better understand how it impacts upon, and interacts with, Community Forest Management (CFM). It presents case studies of CFM and REDD+ governance from ...
- Framework for the design and implementation of national REDD+ safeguard systems
- F. Daviet; G. Larsen / World Resources Institute, Washington DC, 2012
- This report provides a framework for the national implementation of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) safeguards. These safeguards are needed to ensure effective implementation of REDD+ so that it do...
- Adding value to the MRV regime
- A. Arquit Niederberger; A. Kimble / Taylor and Francis Group, 2011
- MRV (monitoring, reporting and verification) was one of the most contentious issues at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and it has remained a highly debated issue in the following negotiations. ...
- NAMAs in Brazil, China, India and South Africa
- H. van Asselt; J. Berseus; J. Gupta; C. Haug / Institute of Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, 2010
- Nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) were introduced by the Bali Action Plan in 2007 and they have since been interpreted in various ways by different countries and country groupings. A key question for the talks on NAMAs...
- Breaking down the response to extreme temperature rise
- M. Stafford Smith; L. Horrocks; A. Harvey; C. Hamilton / Royal Society Publishing, 2011
- With weakening prospects of prompt mitigation, it is increasingly likely that the world will experience a four degrees Celsius, or more, global temperature rise. Typically, long-term adaptation planning for extreme climate change face...
- Results from a high-level workshop on innovative finance for tropical forests
- M. Cranford; I. R. Henderson; A. W. Mitchell / WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2011
- This document is an outcome of a high-level workshop on innovative finance for tropical forests, specifically focusing on the development and introduction of forest bonds. Hosted by the WWF Forest & Climate Initiative, Global Cano...
- Synthesis of information received from a global survey on REDD+ financing and implementing arrangements
- Oslo Climate and Forest Conference, 2010
- This paper presents a synthesis of results from a survey on countries and international bodies on their current REDD+ financing and implementing arrangements. It reports that REDD+ activities which have received financing support incl...
- Approval of climate change adaptation funds by the Adaptation Fund Board
- A.O. Kaloga; S. Harmeling / Germanwatch, 2012
- This report presents the outcomes of the 16th meeting of the Adaptation Fund Board (AFB) held in 2011. The report highlights the accreditation of two new National Implementation Entities (NIEs) as a key decision adopted by the AFB. Th...
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