May 21, 2012
The Paiter Surui have asked the National Indian Foundation (Fundação Nacional do Índio, “FUNAI”) and federal police to help them enforce a self-imposed logging moratorium after loggers ratcheted up threats against members of the tribe who tried to halt the illegal removal of timber from the territory.
The moratorium is a cornerstone of the groundbreaking Surui Forest Carbon Project (SFCP), which is the first-ever indigenous “REDD” project designed to provide carbon...
Developing countries will not be incentivised to change business -as- usual practices and invest in REDD+ schemes until there’s certainty that the financial rewards that have been used to promote the forest carbon mechanism will materialise in the future, said experts at the sidelines of the climate change talks in Bonn.
“Cash is king,” said Maria Brockhaus, a scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), at a side event held alongside the meetings...
May 20, 2012
This training manual has been prepared for national and district level facilitators who are willing to learn and share the knowledge about climate change and REDD+ to different stakeholders in order to build capacity and raise their awareness.
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International attention is focused on finding ways to reduce emissions from deforestation because of the emerging concerns over climate change. However the causes of deforestation are rooted in current economic and development paradigms. The causes of deforestation also vary across different geographical regions and have implications for the forest transition.
Attempts to reach an international agreement on curbing deforestation have achieved little success despite over...
This study provides preliminary information on the potential for REDD+ in Laos PDR by surveying forest cover change and carbon density. The method used in this report were to first study forest cover change and carbon density using coarse-resolution forest cover data available in the Vegetation Continuous Fields data product. This information was used to prioritise certain areas as having good potential for REDD+.
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As part of SNV’s REDD+ interventions in Vietnam, Nghe An has been identified as a important Province to work on REDD+. The Province has high forest cover, and is subject to deforestation and degradation. It is also home to many ethnic minority groups. In order to better understand and design possible REDD+ interventions a pilot study was carried to better understand the socio-economic conditions and drivers of deforestation and forest degradation with a number of identified districts...
The originality of the REDD proposal is its incentives-based mechanism designed to reward the governments of developing countries for their performance in reducing deforestation as measured against a baseline. This mechanism is founded on the hypothesis that developing countries ‘pay’ an opportunity cost to conserve their forests and would prefer other choices and convert their wooden lands to other uses. The basic idea is, therefore, to pay rents to these countries to compensate for the...
May 18, 2012
Reference Emission Levels (gross) and Reference Levels (net) requires the combination of a land use transition matrix and typical C stocks per land use type. Four ways of calculating REL for any (sub) national entity are:
- REL/RL1A: Projected emissions are based on historical emissions
- REL/RL1B: Projected emissions are based on historical emissions relative to remaining carbon pools
- REL/RL2: Future emissions are projected based on land use plans (forward-...
Opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions exist across all sectors of the economy and across a wide geographic area, but emissions from forest and peatland conversion dominate the field, as well as the public debate. With the advent of REDD+, the introduction of an Indonesian action plan for emissions reduction under the remit of the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMA), and the potential for increased financial flows into carbon-rich landscapes, the question of how to...
Agribusiness giant Bunge expects its avoided deforestation project on private land in Brazil to be issued around 800,000 voluntary carbon credits by the second half of the year, the firm’s Brazil country manager said.
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