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  Formative Mid - Term Review of the Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) Program in the Amazon: Final report

  Scanteam, 2014

  This is a mid-term review of RFN's Amazon Program, financed by the Norwegian MFA with annual budgets of 30 mill NOK in 2012 - 2013 reduced to 25 mill NOK in 2014.
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  Amazonian policy and politics, 2003-13: deforestation, hydropower and biofuels

  Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2014

  In the period 2003-13 Brazil experienced important economic and political developments: it became a much more relevant international player; its economy entered the world’s top ten; and society became more politically active and expressed its complaints more aggressively. Amazonian policy and the politics of the period developed in this context, and three issues played a central role.
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  Payments for environmental services: a market mechanism protecting Latin America’s forests

  Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2014

  In Latin America, payments for environmental services schemes are the preferred market mechanism for forest conservation and reforestation. Success stories from the region provide a range of valuable lessons for other countries still struggling to curb deforestation.
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  Environmental service incentives in the state of Acre, Brazil: Lessons for policies, programmes and strategies for jurisdiction-wide REDD+

  WWF Brazil, 2013

  This study analyses the design of an Environmental Service Incentives System (SISA, in Portuguese), which includes a programme for REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), in the Brazilian state of Acre. Formally known as Environmental Service Incentives for Carbon (or ISA Carbon), this programme represents one of the first public policies for REDD+.
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  Rights-based rainforest protection Why securing the rights of forest peoples is the right way to save the forest

  2012

  The loss of the world’s rainforest has for decades been recognised as a serious, global environmental problem, both by rainforest nations and the international community. Still, 13 million hectares of tropical forest disappear every year. There is, thus, an urgent need for intensified efforts at the appropriate scale and with the right approach.
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  DETERring deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon: environmental monitoring and law enforcement

  Climate Policy Initiative, 2013

  This study asks: which specific policy efforts contributed most to the reduction in Amazon deforestation? The paper, which evaluates the impact of monitoring on deforestation, focuses on DETER, a satellite-based system for real-time detection of deforestation. DETER is the key tool for targeting law enforcement activities in the Brazilian Amazon.
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  Safeguarding forests and people: a framework for designing a national system to implement REDD+ safeguards

  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 does not inadvertently harm communities and ecosystems.
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  Respecting rights, delivering development: forest tenure reform since Rio 1992

  The Rights and Resources Initiative, 2012

  This report evaluates the progress achieved in forest management by indigenous people and local communities, which was set as a key objective at the 1992 Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It presents new findings and identifies what needs to done to protect global forest areas and ensure their contributions to social, environmental and economic development.
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  Safeguarding REDD+ finance: ensuring transparent and accountable international financial flows

  Global Witness, 2012

  Funding forest protection in developing countries poses numerous financial risks, from inefficient allocation through to mismanagement of funds, misappropriation and corruption; detailed measures will be needed to ensure effective, transparent and accountable financial flows if greenhouse gas emissions from forest loss are to be reduced.
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  Rise and spread of national and sub-national forest carbon schemes

  Forest Carbon Asia, 2012

  In December 2011 at the international climate change negotiations at COP17 in Durban, there were further developments on the proposed REDD+ mechanism to reduce forest-based emissions and enhance forest carbon sinks. Various countries have initiated forest-related emission reduction and offsetting schemes within the last year.

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