Forests

The key message of the recent report Securing Rights, Combating Climate Change is unambiguous: Securing and strengthening Community Forest Rights is essential for reducing an enormous amount of carbon emissions. The World Resources Institute and the Rights and Rescources Initiative stress that their paper provides the most comprehensive analysis linking legal recognition and government protection of community forest […]

By Peter Holmgren, Director General of CIFOR, originally published at the DG’s Blog The UNFCCC COP20 in Lima is around the corner, and expectations are mounting again on how far the world’s countries are prepared to go in handling causes and effects of climate change. Lima is the last main stop en route to a new climate deal in […]

By Kate Evans, originally published at Forests News From the Amazon forests of Peru and Brazil, to the Congo Basin and Tanzania, to Vietnam and Indonesian Borneo, more than 300 initiatives have emerged in the past five years experimenting with the idea of REDD+. That’s Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation—an initiative to tackle […]

Por qué no avanza REDD+? Política y poder interfieren, de acuerdo a experta

Until today, the topic of shifting cultivation is highly controversial, judged as a threat to landscapes. Nevertheless it remains important to indigenous peoples for securing their livelihoods and food sources. At the 2014 Global Landscapes Forum, the civil society organization Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) will take a closer look at this topic by hosting […]

By Peter Holmgren, originally posted at the CIFOR Director General’s blog As REDD+ has evolved and expanded, numerous opportunities, synergies and challenges have emerged, particularly with respect to tenure and financing. CIFOR’s ongoing Global Comparative Study on REDD+ offers lessons for achieving the transformational change necessary to make the framework succeed. These are issues that transcend the […]