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    Rainforest restoration: A guide to principles and practices

    Ministry of Environment and Forests, India, 2010
    The Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India's practitioners guide to the benefits and ways of restoring rainforests under the present conditions of environmental distress.Around the world, tropical rainforests are among the most threatened ecosystems today. Over 100 million hectares are lost or severely degraded every decade due to human caused destruction.
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    India's forests and REDD+

    Ministry of Environment and Forests, India, 2010
    Government of India's document on the state of forests, forest governance and their interaction with REDD in India. It argues that while most developing countries lost forest cover, India added around 3mn hectares of forest and tree cover over the last decade and that forests neutralize ~11% of India’s GHG emissions.
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    National mission for green India: National consultations

    India Water Portal, 2010
    Draft prepared by the Ministry of Environment and Forests for comments. The draft outlines a fundamental shift in forest policy from focusing on forest quantity to forest quality. There is an attempt to look at forest governance holistically and promote decentralization. This mission also lists the involvement of civil society and public in developing its objectives.
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    Rise and spread of national and sub-national forest carbon schemes

    Forest Carbon Asia, 2012
    In December 2011 at the international climate change negotiations at COP17 in Durban, there were further developments on the proposed REDD+ mechanism to reduce forest-based emissions and enhance forest carbon sinks. Various countries have initiated forest-related emission reduction and offsetting schemes within the last year.
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    REDD-net

    REDD-net is the hub for knowledge sharing and resources on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+).
  • Organisation

    ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins

    The ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins is devoted entirely to research on the tropical forest margins.
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    Free, prior, and informed consent in REDD+: principles and approaches for policy and project development

    2011
    This publication is aimed at those concerned with the design and implementation of REDD+ projects or programmes. The audience includes independent community facilitators or advisors; indigenous and local community leaders; local government staff; project staff/liaison officers; private sector investors; and NGO facilitators, advocates and activists. Divided into three main sections: 1.
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    Does REDD+ threaten to recentralise forest governance?

    American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010
    Over the past 25 years, developing countries have transitioned toward decentralized forest management that allows local actors increased rights and responsibilities, and has helped protect forests in many regions.
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    Potential Impacts of Tree Plantation Projects Under the CDM: An African Case Study

    Timberwatch Coalition, 2011
    This new report expands on the preliminary Timberwatch report released in December 2009, and provides greater insight into the commercial and industrial activities of the Norwegian owned company Green Resources Ltd (GRL), and associated issues, in the Mufindi district of Iringa province in southern Tanzania.
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    Making Rio 2012 Work: Setting the Stage for Global Economic, Social and Ecological Renewal

    Center on International Cooperation, New York University, 2011
    The world faces old and new security challenges that are more complex than our multilateral and national institutions are currently capable of managing.

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