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By Peter Holmgren, Director General Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), orginally posted at DG’s blog Few people in development and environment circles could have missed that this year will see a confluence of global agreement-making. Following a 43-year process from Stockholm 1972, through Rio 1992 and Rio+20 in 2012, the post-2015 development agenda is maturing and will be the highlight at the UN […]

Youth report from the 2014 Global Landscapes Forum

REDD+ Safeguards Brief no. 3 (4 pages)

CIFOR Infobrief no. 77

Results-based financing of REDD+ is conditional on the implementation of national Safeguard Information Systems (SIS) to address social and environmental criteria that go beyond carbon. The briefs in this packet discuss the challenges of operationalizing safeguards from various perspectives – governance, benefit sharing, tenure, gender, biodiversity, technical monitoring – and highlight opportunities and strategies for […]

The 2014 Global Landscapes Forum, convened on the sidelines of the UNFCCC COP20 in Lima, 6-7 December 2014, brought together more than 1,700 participants to discuss the role of landscapes in climate and development policy. The event highlights in numbers were Participant Survey: 96% of participants plan to share, research or apply the new knowledge they gained […]