May 17, 2012
- This case study uses the Local Adaptive Capacity (LAC) framework developed by the African Climate Change Resilience Alliance (ACCRA) to compare how REDD+ strategy options may impact LAC in Ghana. It analyses not only how REDD+ may affect the provision of assets necessary for adapting to climate change, but also the role of REDD+ in building processes and functions that develop the adaptive capacity of people at the local level.
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- This case study examines how REDD+ and adaptation policies are currently aligned in Nepal’s national policy, before assessing whether planning for REDD+, outlined in the Readiness Preparation Proposal (R-PP), is likely to contribute to adaptive capacity at the local level....
May 16, 2012
Emily Brickell, an ODI Research Officer, blogs from the UNFCCC intersessional meetings in Bonn on the opportunities for addressing the drivers of deforestation in non-forest sectors. Her blog picks up themes that are also reflected in CDKN’s recently published Inside Story, ‘A new direction in climate...
May 15, 2012
- Farmers living in deforested and degraded land in Uganda have begun earning carbon credit payments by planting indigenous trees. The payments are made by companies in Europe and America who want to reduce their environmental impact by compensating for their carbon dioxide emissions. Local NGO, Ecotrust Uganda, provides technical support to the farmers, and calculates the payments they are entitled to – according to how much carbon is stored in the trees over their life span. Pauline...
March 27, 2012
- But experts warn reforestation has limits and the top priority should be protecting existing forests
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