Carbon Trading
Forest Watch Issue 138
- Billions of Euros available for afforestation
- Forest activists win prize
- Recession+ETS=few carbon reductions in the EU
- Adapting to climate change?
- Republic of Congo to sign a VPA with the EU
- Special report from the UNFCCC forest climate meeting in Bonn
| Document | Size |
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 FW 138.pdf | 259.51 KB |
Forest watch Issue 137
- Fossil Fools day 2009 targets the G20
- India: The hidden costs of free trade
- Natura 2000 and CEPF
- Urging recognition of forest peoples’ rights
- Liberia negotiations begin
- EU calendar online
- FERN moves to Mundo-B
| Document | Size |
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| PDF | 246.68 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 136
- Forests in EU-China bilateral agreements
- Liberia received praise where due
- Closer eye on EU finance?
- EU illegal timber proposal strengthened
- Climate Package disappoints
- DG ENV boss shuns offsets
- Reducing emissions or playing with numbers?
| Documents | Size |
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| FW 136.pdf | 243.52 KB |
| Playing with numbers.pdf | 112.95 KB |
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
| Documents | Size |
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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
| Documents | Size |
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| PDF | 164.41 KB |
| Poznan special | 127.72 KB |
FERN letter to Council asking for exclusion forest credits in ETS
FERN letter to the Council asking the Council to not allow for inclusion of forest credits in the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), including a one page document outlining the key problems with the inclusion of forest credits in carbon markets
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| OPEN | 134.66 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.
| Documents | Size |
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| An overview of selected REDD proposals | 1.52 MB |
| Un aperçu des propositions REDD sélectionnées | 1012.99 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
| Document | Size |
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| OPEN | 176.04 KB |
Forestwatch Issue 130
- Accra climate forests discussions yield few results
- Cautious optimism at Ghana VPA launch
- Proposal to control illegal timber postponed again
- Ongoing struggles in Liberia
- The true cost of monoculture tree plantations
| Document | Size |
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| OPEN | 217.54 KB |
Avoiding Deforestation and Degradation: Walking the tightrope to success
A short briefing note which looks at how to ensure REDD schemes have a threefold purpose: to safeguard and enforce the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities, to bring an end to great swathes of deforestation and to help address climate change.
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| walking the tightrope to success | 1.08 MB |
| Marcher sur la corde raide menant au succès | 1.02 MB |