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    A “Delphi Exercise” as a tool in Amazon Rainforest valuation

    World Bank, 2014
    The Amazon rainforest, the world’s largest and most biodiverse, represents a global public good of which 15 percent has already been lost. The worldwide value of preserving the remaining forest is today unknown.
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    Climate-smart landscapes: multifunctionality in practice

    World Agroforestry Centre, 2015
    This book explores four central propositions on climate-smart and multifunctional landscape approaches: A) Current landscapes are a suboptimal member of a set of locally feasible landscape configurations; B) Actors and interactions can nudge landscapes towards better managed trade-offs within the set of feasible configurations, through engagement, investment and interventions; C) Climate is one
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    Corruption risks and experiences in REDD+ financial benefit sharing mechanisms

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2014
    The success of REDD+ hinges on providing forest users with positive monetary and nonmonetary incentives or benefits that both motivate behavioral change regarding forest use and help offset the various costs associated with implementing REDD+.
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    What we have lost and cannot become: societal outcomes of coastal erosion in southern Belize

    Ecology and Society, 2015
    Countries in the Caribbean region, including Belize, are vulnerable to coastal erosion. Experts and scholars have assessed the effects of coastal erosion in the region in physical and economic terms, most often from a sectoral perspective. However, less attention has been directed to the localized and nonquantifiable effects of coastal erosion in the region.
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    Forest carbon rights and corruption: what donors can do to minimize the risks

    U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2015
    Assigning forest carbon rights is crucial for any effective REDD+ system. Often linked to debates about forest tenure, carbon rights determine who can make decisions about REDD+, who can benefit, how and to whom the carbon is sold, and under what circumstances. Debates about forest carbon rights are strongly linked to debates about equity in REDD+.
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    The foreign policy of carbon sinks: carbon capture and storage as foreign policy in Norway

    Science Direct, 2014
    Norway is among a handful of countries with an explicit policy to promote carbon capture and storage (CCS) at both national and international levels. This paper investigates the internal and external driving forces behind Norway's efforts to advance CCS as a global climate change mitigation option.
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    REDD+ as performance-based aid: general lessons and bilateral agreements of Norway

    2013
    REDD+, when it officially became part of the international climate agenda in 2007, was an idea about payment to countries and projects for reducing emission from forests, with funding primarily from carbon markets.
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    REDD+ in India: managing carbon storage and biodiversity safeguarding in national forest politics?

    Fridtjof Nansen Institute, 2014
    The report analyses India's approach towards the mechanism on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries; and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhance-ment of forest carbon stocks (REDD+), with particular attention to India's handling of both carbon and biodiversity matters.
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    Instituting REDD+: An analysis of the processes and outcomes of two pilot projects in Brazil and Tanzania

    International Institute for Environment and Development, 2013
    REDD readiness is about developing national strategies for REDD+ including the necessary systems to ensure reduced DD, encompassing systems for monitoring/carbon accounting and distribution of international compensations. Establishing REDD+ is a process of change not least regarding actions on the ground.
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    The Ongo Community Forest REDD+ pilot Project, Uganda: A socioeconomic baseline survey

    Environmental Economics Programme, IIED, 2012
    This report aims to synthesise information on current socioeconomic conditions within the villages that are to be involved in the Ecotrust Pro-Poor REDD+ pilot project in the Masindi district of western Uganda.

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