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  Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA)

  AIDA aims to strengthen people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment through the development, implementation and effective enforcement of national and i
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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.
• Organisation

  Oslo Climate and Forest Conference (OSFC)

  Countries met in Oslo, Norway, in May 2010 to establish a global partnership to fight climate change.
• Document

  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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  Do trees grow on money? The implications of deforestation research for policies to promote REDD

  Center for International Forestry Research, 2007

  This paper provides a brief overview of the current knowledge and data on deforestation rates, research on the causes of deforestation and forest degradation and relevant policy options. It highlights issues of particular relevance to new discussions on reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in developing countries at different stages of forest transition.
• Document

  Carbon sequestration in agricultural soils

  World Bank, 2012

  This report aims to improve the knowledge base for scaling-up investments in land management technologies that sequester soil carbon for increased productivity under changing climate conditions. The report presents the following key messages.
• Organisation

  The Centre for People and Forests (RECOFTC)

  Community forestry is widely acknowledged as a powerful solution for many of the challenges facing local people and the wider society, especially in improving rural livelihoods, enhancing community go
• Document

  Water and climate change adaptation in the Americas. Solution from the Regional Policy Dialog (RPD)

  Water and Climate Change in the Americas, 2012

  This solutions document, a product of the Regional Policy Dialog (RPD) on Water and Climate Change Adaptation in the Americas (comprised of 21 different agencies), seeks to address the ways in which water management practices must change in order to deal with the prospective impacts of climate change.

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