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A new study supported by the Green Party of Germany finds that compensatory afforestation has not taken off in many cases and forest conservation rules have helped industry more than environment. The report funded by the Heinrich Boll Foundation of the Green Party comes at the time when the...

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) secretariat will propose to the next GEF Council meeting a revised set of Environmental and Social Safeguard Standards and accountability mechanisms that will accompany such standards. With the GEF’s increasing engagement in REDD+ related activities and a long...

This paper explores the relationship between safeguards and multiple benefits in REDD+ activities, focusing on the possible institutional and governance structures that could facilitate attaining multiple benefits and respecting safeguards. It highlights key issues for further negotiation and...

Since the COP meeting in Bali in 2007, Norway has stood out as the principal donor of REDD+ money. Learning from the Norwegian experiences can prove useful for other donors. This brief treats a number of interesting issues raised in the first evaluation reports of the Norwegian efforts. The brief...

A two-day conference on European and global forests - which way for the future? was held at the European Parliament in Brussels on 6-7 September 2011.  The first day of the conference was organised by the INTERREG IVC project FUTUREforest. A report on the results of the three-yearproject was...

When: Nov 23 - 25, 2011 Where: Nanning, Guangxi, China Organized By: Guangxi University & the Experimental Center of Tropical Forestry, CAF This international conference has been proposed as a platform for discussing the findings of research work carried out under the project as also to...

This brief aims to guide countries in the development of their Legality Definition as part of a Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT) Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) process. It is not meant to be prescriptive, but rather describe useful practice based on the experiences and...

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, natural gas prices were high and many major gas consumers worried that continued high prices posed serious risks to future profitability. One of the more concerned sectors of British Columbia's economy was the commercial greenhouse industry, which uses lots of...