Avoided Deforestation and Degradation
Forestwatch Issue 135
- DRC: ninety-one logging contracts cancelled
- Communication acknowledges failings of the CDM
- Diluting the Renewable Energy Directive’s benefits
- The trouble with market schemes: A US example
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 OPEN | 268.4 KB |
| FLEGT Update | 124.19 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 134
- Wood criteria threaten green procurement
- Civil society gagged
- Forest offsets remain excluded from ETS – for now
- Ilisu Dam: not dead yet
- EU biodiversity goals: Failure in progress
- FERN/Forest Peoples Programme Poznan Special
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| PDF | 164.41 KB |
| Poznan special | 127.72 KB |
FERN letter to Council asking for exclusion forest credits in ETS
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| OPEN | 134.66 KB |
From green ideals to REDD money
FERN briefing note detailing the history of Avoided Deforestation and Degradation and explaining the basic differences between the different country proposals on the table for Reduced Emissions of Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD).
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| From green ideals to REDD money | 818.44 KB |
| Des idéaux verts aux fonds REDD | 860.63 KB |
An overview of selected REDD proposals
This report describes the different country proposals on the table to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in the lead up to a forest climate agreement to be agreed by the UNFCCC in December 2009. It looks at whether or not these proposals look beyond carbon values in forests and respect local peoples' rights.
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| An overview of selected REDD proposals | 1.52 MB |
| Un aperçu des propositions REDD sélectionnées | 1012.99 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 132
- FSC must improve its performance
- Biofuel bonus
- Council prepares for Poznan
- ASEAN inches toward human rights organ
- Clearer guidelines for Natura 2000
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| PDF | 221.54 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 131
- Ilisu dam: the beginning of the end
- Hope for Liberia
- Commission wiser than Parliament on forests and climate ...
- ... but Commission legislative proposal lacks teeth
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| OPEN | 176.04 KB |
European Commission’s Communication could save us from the first big carbon (market) crash
The new European Commission's 'Communication on addressing the challenges of deforestation' takes a strong and welcome stand against the inclusion of forests in the ETS. FERN, Global Witness and leading economists, financiers and other NGOs have real concerns about the ability of carbon markets to halt climate change. Their capacity to halt deforestation is also widely contested.
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 OPEN | 122.5 KB |
Forests are more than carbon
To prevent dangerous climate change and land degradation, conserve biodiversity and safeguard the sustainable use of forests by local communities and Indigenous Peoples, any agreement must be designed to stop deforestation and degradation, not simply reduce or defer emissions.
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| Forests are more than carbon | 30.52 KB |
| Los bosques son más que carbono | 28.93 KB |
| Les forêts sont plus que du carbone | 53.9 KB |
Paving the way for agrofuels
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| OPEN | 453.89 KB |