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The implications of carbon financing for pro-poor community forestry
Overseas Development Institute, 2008This paper explores the implications of new financing mechanisms, carbon markets and increased investment in forestry for community forestry. The main focus of the discussion is on ‘Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation’ (REDD).DocumentThe Amazon’s vicious cycles: drought and fire in the greenhouse - ecological and climatic tipping points of the world’s largest tropical rainforest, and practical preventive measures
WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2007The Amazon forest greatly influences the global climate and may be coming under increasing threat due to climate change. This report explores the relationship between the Amazon, climate, and the changes in this relationship that are underway as a result of forest destruction and the release of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere.DocumentPotential and challenges of payments for ecosystem services from tropical forests
Policy and Environment Programme, ODI, 2008‘Forest carbon’ has taken centre stage due to the urgency to mitigate climate change. One possible avenue to conserve carbon storing forests is through “payments for ecosystem services” (PES) schemes, which are voluntary or conditional agreements between a seller and buyer of environmental services.DocumentClimate change and forest genetic diversity: implications for sustainable forest management in Europe
Bioversity International, 2007Climate change is increasingly recognised as one of the most important challenges faced globally by ecosystems and societies alike. Climate change will alter the environmental conditions to which forest trees in Europe are adapted and expose them to new pests and diseases. This document presents papers from a workshop on climate change and forest genetic diversity.DocumentReforestation and control of landslides in Macacos Hill, a slum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
South South North, 2006The focus of the project is on increasing the resistance of the physical environment to landslide activity; and building capacity of the community to decrease their vulnerability to landslides when they do occur. Project activities will include: 1. Identifying critical points of erosion and deforestation in Macacos Hill;DocumentBuilding community capacity to reduce salinity, tidal inundation and cyclone relate vulnerability
South South North, 2006The goal of the project is to build the capacity of the community to reduce salinity, tidal inundation and cyclone relate vulnerability, as well as to facilitate poverty reduction. The specific objectives of the project are:DocumentA funny place to store carbon: UWA-FACE Foundation’s tree planting project in Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda
World Rainforest Movement, 2006This report documents human rights abuses at Mount Elgon National Park in east Uganda, where a Dutch foundation plants trees for the purpose of carbon offsetting.DocumentCan payments for avoided deforestation to tackle climate change also benefit the poor?
Overseas Development Institute, 2006Avoided deforestation (AD) has become a global concern with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This paper discusses financial incentive schemes to reduce rates of deforestation and forest degradation in tropical countries may be established and considers some of the issues from the perspective of host countries and the forest-dependent poor.DocumentForests and climate change: global understandings and possible responses
Policy Studies Institute, UK, 2006This is the draft report of a scoping study for the Forestry Commission on forests and climate change. The report discusses the role that sustainable forest management can play in mitigating climate change.