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    UN-REDD Viet Nam Programme: Designing Benefit Distribution Systems Fact Sheet

    UN-REDD Programme - Viet Nam, 2011
    This fact sheet describes lessons learnt from the development of Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) benefit distribution systems (BDSs) in Viet Nam. The fact sheet is a clear and concise resource for policymakers and REDD+ stakeholders.
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    Unlocking forest bonds: a high-level workshop on innovative finance for tropical forests

    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.
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    Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership

    CARE International, 2011
    This policy brief, produced by Care International, outlines a bilateral Reduced Emissions form Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) pilot project – the Kalimantan Forests and Climate Partnership (KFCP). The KFCP project aims to reduce deforestation and forest degradation of peat swamp forest by mitigating the frequency and severity of fire, protecting existing peat land and rewetting and r
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    Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) Letter

    UNFCCC National Adaptation Programme of Action, 2010
    This letter is written by the Executive Chair of Indonesia’s National Council on Climate Change, Rachmat Witoelar; it outlines Indonesia’s Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs). NAMAs are voluntary greenhouse gas reduction activities set out by Non-Annex 1 Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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    Readiness Preparation Proposals (R – PP)

    Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, 2009
    This document was submitted to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), a World Bank programme that aims to assist developing countries with Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+), during May 2009.
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    Global environmental outlook 5: environment for the future we want

    United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2012
    The fifth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-5) analyses the state, trends, outlook and responses to environmental change. It assesses progress towards meeting internationally agreed goals and identifies gaps in their achievement.
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    Synthesis report: REDD+ financing and activities survey

    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 include: planning and consultation; capacity building; implementation of REDD+ activities and strategies; and result-based payments for emissions reduction.
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    Oslo Climate and Forest Conference (OSFC)

    Countries met in Oslo, Norway, in May 2010 to establish a global partnership to fight climate change.
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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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    REDD+ finance delivery: lessons from early experience

    Overseas Development Institute [ES], 2011
    This paper summarises the current status of international public financial support and the progress made in the development of multilateral and bilateral delivery mechanisms for REDD+. The paper states that though it is difficult to evaluate the outcomes of specific financial support, the following lessons can be identified from early experience.

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