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  Supplementing REDD+ with Biodiversity Payments: The Paradox of Paying for Multiple Ecosystem Services

  Center for Global Development, USA, 2013

  REDD+ is an emerging international climate policy mechanism which is being designed to deliver climate change mitigation benefits from tropical forests. REDD+ would make carbon payments to developing countries that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation below internationally agreed reference levels.
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  WWF Brazil (WWF)

  WWF Brazil is a Brazilian NGO, participant and an international network committed to nature conservation within the social and economic environment in Brazil.
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  The Protection of Forests under Global Biodiversity and Climate Policies

  German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bundesamt für Naturschutz, 2013

  The report presents the findings of the research and development project ‘the protection of forests under global biodiversity and climate policy’, carried out between July 2009 and December 2012.
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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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  Non timber forest products to deal with climate change in Tanzania

  Sokoine University of Agriculture, 2013

  Over 20 million Tanzanians depend on Non Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) for their livelihood. One CCIAM project is looking into how NTFPs as part of peoples´ livelihood strategy is connected to climate change, so that this information can be spread and forest dependent people can more easily adapt to the effects of climate change.
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  Certifying Destruction: Why consumer companies need to go beyond the RSPO to stop forest destruction

  Greenpeace International, 2013

  The focus of this report is the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which was formed in 2004 to promote the use of sustainable palm. RSPO members account for around 40 per cent of global palm oil production.
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  Recognizing local agro-ecological knowledge in sustainable intensification of tree-crop-livestock farming systems

  World Agroforestry Centre, 2013

  This technical paper by the World Agroforestry Centre analyses what farmers in the highlands of Ethiopia currently know about ecosystem processes and the interactions between trees, crops and livestock. The aim is to use this information to guide interventions that will build more intensive and climate-resilient systems.
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  Diagnostic assessment of select environmental challenges valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services in India

  World Bank, 2013

  This paper reports on a wide range of research that estimates the value of ecosystem services (ESS) in India, including those related to forests, grasslands, wetlands, mangroves, and coral reefs.
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  Stakeholder engagement in preparing investments plans for the climate investment funds case studies from Asia, second edition

  Asian Development Bank, 2013

  Since the inception of the Climate Investment Funds (CIF), the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has participated in the preparation of 15 investment plans covering the two main CIF funds, the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) and the Strategic Climate Fund (SCF).
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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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