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Policies & Positions
REDD and Forestry
Spending more on rainforest destruction than protection
Rainforest norway and Friends of The Earth Norway
The Norwegian government keeps increasing its investments in industries widely known to be key forces behind rainforest destruction. At the same time as spending an annual 500 million USD and huge political capital on rainforest protection, Norway invests some 13,7 billion dollars in industries destroying it. This political incoherence is documented in the report “Beauty and the Beast - Norway’s investments in rainforest protection and rainforest destruction”, published by Rainforest Foundation Norway and Friends of the Earth Norway.
REDD+: Ready to engage private investors?
IIED Briefing, the global land rush
The prospect of gaining carbon credits by acquiring land to implement REDD+ has caught the eye of the private sector. In many countries, there are reports of a carbon rush. Using Mozambique as an example, Isilda Nhantumbo focuses on the risks of Encouraging private sector involvement before policies and institutions are in place to safeguard local environments and people.
Understanding community-based REDD+
A manual for indigenous community trainersIWGIA has developed a new manual, which looks at REDD+ on project level. The purpose of the manual is to provide guidance to indigenous trainers to prepare and conduct trainings on Community-based REDD+The trainers manual is accompanied by a separate manual prepared for participants attending training on Community-based REDD+, and for indigenous communities who want to learn about CB REDD+ on their own.
Drivers of Deforestation and REDD+ - Can REDD+ compete?
The REDD Net Bulleting from November 2011 focuses on the meaning of opportunity costs in the context of REDD+ and what the implications are for local communities.
Is REDD-readiness taking us in the right direction?
In this new report, the Accra Caucus present a new set of case studies showing how the REDD+ process has been experienced on the ground.
The case studies are available in English, French and Spanish
REDD, Forestry and Land Issues in Tanzania
Three contributions on national policy by Tanzanian civil society (including Southern Voices networks MJUMITA and TFCG). The contributions comment, reflect and make recommendations regarding the national forest policy, Tanzanias REDD strategy, land issues and how to make REDD in Tanzania more pro-poor.
Policy Brief on Land Issues and REDD (4p .pdf 3,3Mb)
Recommendations on National Forest Policy (2p .pdf 333Kb)
Recommendations on National REDD Strategy (2p .pdf 377Kb)
Smoke and Mirrors: a critical assessment of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
This report from FERN and Forest Peoples Programme analyses eight of the Readiness Preparedness Plans (RPPs) submitted to the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) and reviews current FCPF documents and policy debates. The review finds that rather than strengthening and implementing the Bank's safeguards, the FCPF has created a dense set of guidelines that appear to water down existing policies and obfuscate minimum standards.
(PDF 46 pages; 1 mb)
Meeting the Challenges of International Forest Governance
Report issued in Jan. 2011 by IUFRO - International Union of Forest Research Organisations. The report suggests that REDD Ignores the Primary Causes for Destruction of Forests: global efforts have too often ignored local needs, while failing to address the most fundamental challenge to global forest management—that deforestation usually is caused by economic pressures imposed from outside the forests. Download here full report or policy briefs in English, Spanish or French.
REDD and Indigenous Peoples - Special issue of Indigenous Affairs, 2009 at IWGIAs website
La REDD y los Pueblos Indígenas, Asuntos Indigenas 1-2/09, en sitio web de IWGIA
Editorial and case studies from Africa, Asia and Latin America,
full report in PDF, 11 Mb, 78 pages, individual chapters can be downloaded also
Realising Rights, Protecting Forests: An Alternative Vision for Reducing Deforestation
Download the document here in English, in French/Francais, or in Spanish/Espanol
June 2010. Case Studies from the Accra Caucus, (PDF; 21 pages; 1.9mb)
Social assessment of conservation initiatives: A review of rapid methodologies (PDF; 139 pages; 2mb)
The overall aim of this report from 2010 by the Social Assessment of Protected Areas (SAPA) Initiative is to contribute to increasing the positive impacts (and reducing any negative impacts) of protected areas on human well-being by increasing capacity to conduct unbiased monitoring and measuring of social impacts as a basis for improved protected area policy and practice.
The report is published by IIED with financial support from Care-Denmark and The Nature Conservancy.
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