Conservation is priceless for Kenyan forest
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One can read at various news messages (ONLINE International News Network, Pakistan Today) about the signing of a MoU between the Government of Pakistan and UK based Company Merlins Wood.
All of you might have read and heard about the first and most prominent rule for any REDD+ agreements: they should be based on FREE, PRIOR & INFORMED CONSENT.
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British Columbia makes regulatory change allowing the removal of private land from woodlot licencesBritish Columbia has made an amendment to section 47.1 of their Forest Act that will allow private land to be removed from a woodlot.
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Tension as 15,000 ignore eviction notice
Tension over land ownership is brewing in Ssemabable District as at least 15,300 people, said to be encroachers in the area, continue to ignore an eviction order by the police and district leaders.
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Indigenous developed forest protection planWapichan communities of Guyana, presented a proposal to the government of that country to give them the care of 1.4 million hectares of native forests. Its aim is to preserve and protect that area of industries that could threaten its
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Danzer Sells Its Logging Operations - Will Its Successor Do Any Better?
After months of rumours, it's official: Danzer has sold its industrial logging operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
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Land ownership boosts climate resilience in IndiaEfforts to secure land ownership for tribal people in one of India’s poorest states are bolstering their economic security in the face of climate-induced hardships, and helping conserve farmland and forest.
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Enhancing Adaptation of Forests and People in Africa-Development of Pilot Cases for Selected Forest Ecosystems in Ghana and Malawi
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Brazil is a Model for the Rights of Forest Communities In 2002, 85 percent of the planet’s forests were owned by governments.
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Public consultation launched for draft ‘Guidelines for the use of REDD+ SES at country level Version 2′REDD+ Social & Environmental Standards launched its public consultation on draft ‘Guidelines for the use of REDD+ SES at country level Version 2′ from 5th April until 4th June 2012.
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Green market slide worries Indian companiesGlobal demand for carbon credits, especially in Europe for economic reasons, has been declining since 2010.
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Putting Free, Prior, And Informed Consent Into Practice In REDD+ InitiativesThe principle that indigenous peoples and local communities have a right to give or withhold their Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC) to developments affecting natural resources is not new.
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Why New Zealand’s consultation process is important for REDD+ countriesAs the first country to implement a national level emissions trading system (ETS) that also includes a forestry component as part of its climate change strategy and meets New Zealand’s obligations under the Kyoto Protocol, NZ’s experience in developing this system warrants close attention.
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International Law Principles for REDD+: The Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Legal Obligations of REDD+ ActorsThe REDD+ Principles identify a pathway to implement a human rights-based approach to development within REDD+ initiatives.
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Seeing the people for the trees
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Legal clarity on REDD benefit sharing mechanisms critical to avoid future disputes, says study Legal clarity and consensus on which government institutions have the authority to make regulations on how to share benefits from REDD+ among stakeholders are critical to ensure the process’ legitimacy and avoid future disputes, recommended a study conducted by the Center for International Forest
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Studies show land rights key to saving forests
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Christian Aid launches document on REDD+REDD+ aims to reduce emissions from forests, prevent deforestation and encourage investment in low-carbon development. Christian Aid’s Latin American and Caribbean partners believe that such projects must be managed by local communities and be truly inclusive.
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The “Aid-ification” of REDD+: How its changed and why it matters A scheme for reducing global carbon emissions by slowing deforestation in tropical countries has changed drastically and become “aid-ified” since it was first floated in 2005, according to a major new publication on the subject.
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Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities on Climate Change against REDD+After more than 500 years of resistance, we, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, peasant farmers, fisherfolk and civil society are not fooled by the so-called Green Economy and REDD+ because we know colonialism when we see it.
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Forest Carbon, Markets and Communities (FCMC) Program Forests are disappearing globally at an al
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Land tenure for whom? Recognising community rights essential for REDD+ legitimacy If a scheme to pay developing countries to reduce carbon emissions by slowing deforestation is to have legitimacy, land tenure needs not just to be clarified – but to be clarified in a way that respects the rights of local communities, according to experts from the
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Do Property Rights Promote Investment But Cause Deforestation? Many policymakers argue that property rights decrease deforestation. Some theoretical papers also make this prediction, arguing that property rights decrease discount rates applied to a long-term investment in forestry. However, the effect is theoretically ambiguous.
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Resolute Forest Products logging under heavy police presence at Barriere LakeMontreal riot police have been sent 5 hours north of Montreal to the area where the Algonquin First Nation of Barriere Lake are protesting Resolute Forest Products‘ logging activity.
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Growing benefits from forest carbon projects
Corporate responsibility managers should take a look at forest carbon offset projects to maximize return on investment in climate, biodiversity, and community benefits
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Enhancing forest tenure reforms through more responsive regulationsJuly, 2012. Anne M Larson, Juan M Pulhin. Conservation and Society. Volume: 10 (2). Pages 103-113. DOI: 10.4103/0972-4923.97482
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World Bank Forest Investment Programme challenged to respect indigenous peoples' rights in Peru
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Free, prior and informed consent in REDD+, by Isilda Nhantumbo
“The government took our forest land to create a forest reserve and the same government confiscated our land for planting trees. All that is left is unproductive savannah,” said a community representative speaking during a meeting in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Lao Government Announces Dramatic Shift in Land and Forest policy
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Forest Peoples Programme: Numbers Across the WorldBy providing estimated figures for indigenous and forest peoples’ populations in countries and regions across the globe, this report seeks to raise awareness of the existence of peoples who primarily depend on forests for their livelihoods, and to enhance their visibility as key actors and rights
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Laos shares land and forestry management goalsLand and forestry is the primary resource of the nation, and needs to be managed properly in order to improve local people's living conditions and further socio-economic development in Laos.
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IDB, CI-Guyana sign US$1.6M deal for LCDS implementationTHE Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Conservation International-Guyana (CI-Guyana) signed an agreement yesterday, to begin a project that will test models for implementation of this country’s Low Carbon Development S
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The return of fortress conservation: REDD and the green land grab in the Peruvian AmazonI remember when the park guards first came to our village. They called a meeting and said ‘get your things together and pack your bags, don’t make any new farms and we will see where you can be resettled’.
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Publication Details - Participatory Social Impact Assessment for Natural Resource Projects and ProgramsThere is a growing realization that good practice Social Impact Assessment (SIA) is an issue of self-interest; it can strengthen social sustainability, reduce investor risks and transaction costs, inform adaptive management, and build stakeholder ownership when undertaken in a participatory way.
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Wisconsin tribe has much to teach usRe: "Manage forests for the future," Oct. 17.
The editorial correctly observes that B.C.'s public forests must be managed for the future. The Menominee native Americans in Wisconsin are an excellent example of people doing this.
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Initiative to document forestry land rights under way in West Africa A US initiative to document forestry land rights is expected to promote sustainable agroforestry, environmental protection and the rural livelihoods of the upper Guinean tropical forest.
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Communites take over forest management A total of 152 households in Samtse will now take care of 582.11 acres of forest land with the dzongkhag administration handing over four community forest ownership certificates and 15 private forest certificates to the beneficiaries on November 15.
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Give land to farmers, and they will stop deforestationLocal residents who have been living together with the forests, considering the forests as their homes, still devastate the forests. It’s because they need land for agricultural production.
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Rights-based REDD+ dialogue The outcomes of the Rights-based REDD+ dialogue
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Bushman children arrested under renewed government repression Three Bushman children have been arrested by paramilitary police in Botswana.
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Forests' Protection Needs Community Support
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Ben Parfitt: Sneaky Liberals are planning a B.C. forest giveawayGiven the short duration of the upcoming legislative session and the provincial election to follow, a government plan to introduce a scant two-paragraph bill granting it powers to fundamentally alter the course of forestry in B.C. is disturbing, to say the least.
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Land grabs and human rights violations exposed in Liberia ahead of global development summit
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Trucks arrive to evict Botswana Bushmen despite government denials Government trucks arrived last night to evict Bushmen from their ancestral land in southern Botswana, according to reports received by Survival International.
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Why Ecuador's president is misleading the world on Yasuni-ITT
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Rhetoric or action in global efforts to protect forest communities?JOHANNESBURG, 29 October 2013 (IRIN) - A UN mechanism that purports to involve forest-dependent communities in preventing forest loss to curtail greenhouse gas emissions is failing to do so, finds a new study.
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