|
Local Actions Lay the Groundwork for REDD+ Implementation in Kutai Barat, Indonesia
|
|
WWF-Indonesia is making major strides in partnering with local communities to demarcate and preserve vast sections of forest in the Kutai Barat area. A recent visit to Linggang Melapeh village with members of the WWF Forest and Climate Programme set the stage for sharing challenges, lessons learned, and best practices of making REDD+ a reality as part of a broader green development program in Kutai Barat.
|
 Greetings from WWF's global Forest and Climate Programme, and thank you for subscribing to Canopy. In this issue, we highlight people working across the globe in REDD+, and bring you the latest REDD+ events, learning tools and information from WWF's global Forest and Climate Programme team. |
 | | � Charles Hutchinson/WWF-Guyana |
|
Indigenous Communities Train Others in Community measurement, Reporting and Verification in Guyana
In Guyana, the North Rupununi District Development Board (NRDDB), an indigenous community-based organization, is training the Wai Wai community of Kanashen in Community Measurement, Reporting and Verification (CMRV).
MORE...
|
 | | Courtesy IISD |
|
Constructive Spirit in Bonn Climate Negotiations, but no Progress on REDD+ Discussions
The global community was unable to reach agreement on the issues still under the discussions regarding the mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) at the close of United Nations climate talks in Bonn this weekend.
MORE...
|
 | |
� Courtesy WWF-Indonesia/Kutai Barat
|
|
WWF-Indonesia Conducts Three-Day Biodiversity Safeguard Workshop for Forest Industry Stakeholders in Mahakam Ulu District, East Kalimantan
In an effort to build capacity of timber industry stakeholders (community, government and private sector) on biodiversity safeguards, the WWF-Indonesia Kutai Barat Office and local Forestry Agency recently conduct a three-day biodiversity workshop at PT. Ratah Timber in newly split district (from Kutai Barat) Mahakam Ulu, East Kalimantan.
MORE...
|
 | | � Jennifer Ferguson-Mitchell/WWF |
|
Democratic Republic of Congo Accepted into World Bank Carbon Fund "Pipeline" to Advance REDD+ Work
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) Emission Reductions Program Idea Note (ER-PIN) was provisionally approved last week in Brussels, Belgium, by the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility's (FCPF) Carbon Fund, which is administered by the World Bank.
MORE...
|
 | | � Andre B�rtschi / WWF-Canon |
|
Madre de Dios: Important Step in Environmental and Natural Resources Management
According to GOREMAD's Natural Resources and Environment Management, this is the first step toward building a regional strategy based on sustainable use and natural resources conservation, particularly in the forests of Madre de Dios.
MORE...
|
 | | � Comunidad Andina de Naciones |
|
WWF Interview with Rodrigo de la Cruz, Technical Coordinator of ICAA/COICA Project
Last February, the WWF living Amazon Initiative (LAI) and the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations in the Amazon (COICA) signed a memorandum of understanding to implement a regional vision for conservation of the Amazon, taking into account all the work that COICA and its national organizations have been doing.
MORE...
|
 | | � WWF-Nepal |
|
Nepal on its way to Access Results-Based Payments for REDD+
Nepal made new headway in the REDD+ readiness process with the approval of its Emission Reductions Project Idea Note (ER-PIN) at the Carbon Fund's Ninth Meeting (CF9) organized by the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility under the World Bank in April 2014 in Brussels, Belgium.
MORE...
|
|
|
Learning Session 24: "Deforestation Success Stories" and the Role of REDD+
Pipa Elias, a REDD+ expert and forest policy consultant for the Union of Concerned Scientists presents their recent publication, "Deforestation Success Stories."
|
 |
Learning Session 23: Developing Allometric Equations for REDD+ MRV
In this webinar, Rosa C. Goodman, an independent consultant working in forest conservation and sustainable management, uses the example of the southwestern Amazon to explain where and why new allometric models may need to be developed for REDD+ measurement, reporting and verification (MRV).
|
|
Learning Session 22: Making Sense of the FCPF Carbon Fund's Methodological Framework
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) recently approved the "rules document" that will guide the development and selection of large-scale REDD+ programmes in five to 10 forest countries. Many view the Carbon Fund as a critically important piloting space to test the concept of results-based payments for programmes that address the drivers of deforestation and degradation, and as a possible pre-cursor to a REDD+ window under the Green Climate Fund.
|
 | | � Courtesy Maria Eugenia Arroyo |
|
Interview with Maria Eugenia Arroyo, Forest and Climate Coordinator, WWF-Peru
Maria Eugenia ("Maru") coordinates forest and climate activities for WWF-Peru, with a particular focus on REDD+ work.
|
 | | � Courtesy Mairon Bastos Lima |
|
Interview with Dr. Mairon Bastos Lima, Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Mairon Bastos Lima works with the Environmental Policy Group, Forest and Nature Conservation Group, and REDD@WUR Network at Wageningen University and Resarch Centre (WUR).
|
 | | � Courtesy Jhonathan Jara/WWF-Peru |
|
Interview with
Anggela Michi and Jiang Oliver Liao Torres
Anggela Michi and Jiang Oliver Liao Torres work with GOREMAD's Natural Resources Management office in Madre de Dios, Peru.
|
 | | � Geoff Galice bit.ly/1iMZphX |
|
Pleasing Poison Frog
The pleasing poison frog, or ameerega bassleri, is the second-largest frog of the ameerega genus. This amphibian is endemic to Peru and can often be spotted in the Amazon Basin. Pleasing poison frogs are diurnal and inhabit freshwater and terrestrial areas near small streams and creeks.
MORE...
|
The community of REDD+ practitioners and experts from around the world grows every day, and WWF's global Forest and Climate Programme is working to ensure that the capacity building and informational materials it produces are available to the most diverse audience possible. Many of the publications highlighted here are available in English, Bahasa, French, Portuguese and Spanish, and they can help us build out collective capacity to deliver successful REDD+ initiatives around the globe that benefit people and nature.
|
 |
Promoting Non-Carbon Benefits in REDD+ Actions
The policy brief explores the concept of non-carbon benefits (NCBs), one of the ongoing items of discussions at international REDD+ negotiations and the elaboration of domestic implementation strategies.
MORE...
|
 |
Mapping UNFCCC REDD+: A Visual Guide to the Systems and Structures Supporting REDD+ Within the UNFCCC
WWF is excited to continue its partnership with the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies to produce a new 2014 series of visual maps detailing REDD+ within the UNFCCC system.
MORE...
|
 |
This paper, produce jointly by WWF-Peru and the Madre de Dios Regional Government is the result of the systematization of experiences from the Environmental services and REDD+ Round-table(Spanish acronym: MSAR) in the Madre de Dios region of Peru.
MORE...
In Spanish...
|
 |
REDD+ Inspiring Practice: Building Community Forests in Indonesia
This REDD+ Inspiring Practice explores the development of community conservation areas and community-based forest management in the remote villages of Indonesia's Kutai Barat district.
MORE...
|
 |
Estimating Tropical Forest Carbon Stocks Using Existing Inventory Data
This publication outlines the steps that can be taken to compile and analyse field-based carbon stock data from a range of sources, in order to build a consistent, regional dataset of tropical forest carbon stocks. The results are illustrated using findings from a case study undertaken in Madre de Dios, southern Peru.
MORE...
|
|
|
|
|
WWF's international
Forest and Climate Programme is working to ensure that:
Conservation of tropical forests as carbon stores is secured by green economic development that benefits people, the climate and biodiversity in transformational ways.
|
27-29 August 2014
Geneva, Switzerland
WHO Conference on Health and Climate
|
30-31 August 2014
New Delhi, India
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture, Animal Sciences, Food Technology, Biodiversity and Climate Change Sustainable Approaches
|
7-14 September 2014
Seville, Spain
Forests Stewardship Council General Assembly 2014
|
21-23 September 2014
Cambridge, United Kingdom
16th Annual Bioecon Conference
|
22-23 September 2014
New York City, USA
UN World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
|
23 September 2014
New York City, USA
|
3-5 October 2014
Chamba, India
Development, Biodiversity, and Climate Change: Issues and Challenges
|
5-11 October 2014
Salt Lake City, USA
XXIV International Union of Forest Research Organizations World Congress
|
13-17 October 2014
Darmstadt, Germany
|
|
VIEWPOINTS
On the upcoming COP20:
"I think we will have a very successful conference because we have received good signals and strong political support. Lima is the last opportunity to reach a successful deal."
-- Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, Environment Minister, Peru
On the importance of closing the gigatonne gap:
"It is undeniable that REDD+ is one of the most advanced mitigation mechanisms under UNFCCC and could make an important contribution to closing the gigatonne gap before 2020."
-- Josefina Brana-Varela, Policy Director, WWF Forest and Climate Programme
On Climate Change:
"Unless action is taken now, the planet will succumb to pressure from the impacts of climate change and unsustainable depletion of natural resources"
-- Mahesh Pradhan, head of the environmental education and training unit at UNEP
On the Forest Code (FC) in Brazil:
"Economic incentives for conserving forests, including the Warsaw Framework for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation as (REDD+), will be essential to help implement the FC and to enable Brazil to better reconcile environmental conservation with agricultural development."
-- Britaldo Soares-Filho of the University of Minas Gerais
|
|
Breen Byrnes FCP Communications |
|
|
