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Does the Opportunity Cost Approach Indicate the Real Cost of REDD+ ? Hans Gregersen, Rights and Resources et al
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Les impacts du commerce du carbone sur les droits et la tenure Hortense Ngono
Hortense Ngono's presentation for the Workshop on REDD and Climate Change Sensitization. |
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Le REDD au Cameroun: Contexte, actions et perspectives Dr. Joseph Armathe Amougou - Focal point for the UNFCCC
Joseph Amougou's presentation for the Workshop on REDD and Climate Change Sensitization |
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Foret et changement climatique, REDD Definition et quelques questions/concept cles Samuel Nnah Ndobe - Centre pour l'Environnement et le Developpement
Samuel Nnah's presentation for the Workshop on REDD and Climate Change Sensitization. |
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Foret et changement climatique, REDD Definition et quelques questions/concept cles Samuel Nnah Ndobe - Centre pour l'Environnement et le Developpement
Samuel Nnah's presentation for the Workshop on REDD and Climate Change Sensitization. |
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IUCN Strategy and Vision on REDD Cameroon, Ghana and Liberia Cleto Ndikumagenge, Annelie Fincke - IUCN
Cleto Ndikumagenge and Annelie Fincke's presentation for the Workshop on REDD and Climate Change Sensitization |
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RRI Dialogues on Forests, Governance and Climate Change Augusta Molnar - RRI
Augusta Molnar's presentation for the Workshop on REDD and Climate Change Sensitization |
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Atelier national - Genre, droits, tenure foncière et forestière Rokia Diarra - IUCN
Opening presentation outlining the agenda and themes of the national workshop on gender, rights and forest tenure in Mali. |
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Dr. Allassane Ba, Bintou Nimaga
Presentation of a study done on women's rights done for the national workshop on gender, rights and tenure in Mali. |
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Promotion droit et tenure foncière/forestière à Sablogo Clarisse Honadia - IUCN
Clarisse Honadia's presentation of the Burkinabè experience with gender and tenure rights, presented at the national workshop on gender, rights and tenure in Mali. |
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Antoinette Pa'ah - l’OCBB(Observatoire des Cultures Baka et Bantou pour l’Education Environnementale et le Développement Communautaire
Antoinette Pa'ah's presentation of the Cameroonian experience of gender and tenure rights, presented at the national workshop on gender, rights and tenure in Mali. |
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Les programmes de Banque Mondiale pour lancer le "REDD" au Cameroun James Acworth - World Bank
James Acworth's presentation for the Sensitization Workshop on REDD and Climate Change. |
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Esquisse d’un état des lieux du REDD dans le Bassin du Congo Guy Patrice Dkamela - WR/NESDA-CA
Guy Patrice Dkamela's presentation for the Sensitization Workshop on REDD and Climate Change. |
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5th RRI Dialogue - The REDD+ Partnership Andreas Dahl Jorgensen - Government of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative
Presentation by The Government of Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative on the REDD+ Partnership and the outcomes of the 2010 Oslo Climate and Forest Conference. |
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5th RRI Dialogue - Addressing the Drivers of Deforestation, the Costs and Risks Gerhard Dieterle - World Bank
Presentation by the World Bank on the drivers of deforestation. |
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Or, Why it is really hard to determine what the exact causes are and what the outcome of REDD interventions will be? Phil Shearman - Remote Sensing Center of the University of Papua New Guinea
Summary 1) Complexity – identifying drivers of deforestation is difficult at beyond-project y difficult at beyond scales 2) Will MRV save us? Issues in measuring deforestation 3) Logging – the tip of the spear? 4) Comments on abatement costs – is REDD cheap? 5) Some lessons from Australia. |
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5th RRI Dialogue - Strengthening Indigenous Rights & Climate Change Mitigation The REDD+ Opportunity Beto Borges - Forest Trends
Presentation by Forest Trends on the potential of indigenous communities for REDD and tropical forest conservation. |
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5th RRI Dialogue - Addressing the Drivers of Deforestation, the Costs and R Gerhard Dieterle - World Bank
Presentation by the World Bank on the drivers of deforestation. |
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5th RRI Dialogue - Standards, Safeguards and Recourse Mechanisms for Tenure Rights and REDD Augusta Molnar - Rights and Resources Initiative
Presentation on the outcomes of the May 12 RRI Workshop on Standards, Safeguards and Recourse Mechanisms for REDD. |
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5th RRI Dialogue - Risk‐based approach to readiness social standards Tim Clairs - UN-REDD
Presentation on UN-REDD efforts to develop an approach to social and environmental due diligence for REDD. |
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5th RRI Dialogue - After Oslo and Bonn: Emerging Architecture & New Partnerships Lars Løvold - Rainforest Foundation Norway
Presentation by Rainforest Foundation Norway on concerns over outcomes of REDD+ Partnership and dynamics of a political agreement over REDD. |
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Rights, REDD, and Forest Communities State of Play, REDDflags for Communities Deborah Barry - Rights and Resources
This presentation was given on 13 May 2010 to both USAID and the Rainforest Alliance. The presentation includes a global review of the State of tenure today and key issues in 2010; rights, representation, and roles of communities; global and national-level challenges; and REDD flags for Community Forest Management. |
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RRI Workshop on Safeguards - Social Soundness in natural resource management: USAID's experience Diane Russell - USAID
Session 2: US Gov't perspectives on bilateral standards: environmental and social analysis; and implications for international and state climate change investment |
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Andy White - RRI
Andy White's presentation at the April 2010 workshop Global Issues in Governance of Natural Resources. |
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State Forest Management: Pennsylvania Jim Grace - DCNR
Jim Grace's presentation at the April 2010 workshop on Global Issues in Governance of Natural Resources. |
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Community Forestry on the Move Keshav Raj Kanel - Nepal Ministry of Forests & Soil Conservation (retired)
Keshav Raj Kanel's presentation at the April 2010 workshop on Global Issues in Governance of Natural Resources. |
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RRI Workshop on Safeguards - Introduction Augusta Molnar - Rights and Resources Initiative
Augusta Molnar's introduction to the RRI Workshop on Systems of Standards, Safeguards and Recourse Mechanisms for Forests and Climate |
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RRI Workshop on Safeguards - Safeguards and REDD Kristen Hite - The Center for International and Environmental Law
Session 1: Introductory Presentation of Issues. Kristen Hite, Center for International Environmental Law |
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Dave Gibson - IFC
Session 3: Application of IFC Performance Standards in forestry and implications for REDD, Dave Gibson, IFC |
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Joanna Durbin - CCBA
Session 3: Emerging lessons from CCBA process for standard setting in voluntary carbon markets, Joanna Durbin |
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RRI Workshop on Safeguards - Application of Safeguards & SESA to REDD+ Readiness Benoit Bosquet and Peter Dewees - World Bank
Session 4: Application of Safeguards & SESA to REDD+ Readiness |
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RRI Workshop on Safeguards - Stakeholder Engagement in the UN-REDD Programme Elspeth Halverson - UNDP
Session 5: Stakeholder Engagement in the UN-REDD Programme |
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RRI Workshop on Safeguards - Safeguards, Human Rights and Conservation Agencies: CIHR Jenny Springer - WWF
Session 5: Safeguards, Human Rights and Conservation agencies: CIHR, Jenny Springer - WWF US |
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Ensuring Systems of Standards, Safeguards and Recourse Mechanisms Andy White - Rights and Resources
This presentation focuses on the current state and proposals for systems of standards, safeguards and recourse mechanisms in anticipation of future REDD initiatives. |
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Principles and Criteria for Effectiveness Jeffrey Hatcher - Independent Advisory Group on Forests, Rights, and Climate Change, Rights and Resources
This presentation offers an overview of the current status of REDD initiatives, stakeholder interests and expectations, and principles and criteria used to judge proposed REDD architecture, interim arrangements, operations, and governance. |
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Perspectives on Safeguards and Recourse Mechanisms Peter de Wees - World Bank
This presentation focuses on current operational policies associated with safeguards and recourse mechanisms for the World Bank and its associated initiatives. |
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Evolution of Forest Policy in the United States Jerilyn Levi - US Forest Service
Jerilyn Levi's presentation at the Global Issues in Governance of Natural Resources Workshop. |
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Transformation of the Forest Sector Sten Nilsson - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Sten Nilsson's presentation at the April 2010 workshop Global Issues in Governance of Natural Resources. |
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Forests and Climate Change Mitigation Where do governance, rights and tenure fit? Jeffrey Hatcher - RRI
Jeffrey Hatcher's presentation at the April 2010 workshop Global Issues in Governance of Natural Resources |
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Forest Tenure and Governance Reforms Impacts and Implications for Forest Agencies Andy White - RRI
Andy White's second presentation at the April 2010 workshop on Global Issues in Governance of Natural Resources. |
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Collective Forest Tenure Reform in China Outcomes and Analysis of Performance Xu Jintao - Peking University
Xu Jintao's presentation at the April 2010 workshop Global Issues in Governance of Natural Resources. |
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Indigenous Peoples in Latin America Identity and Territory Omaira Bolanos - RRI
Omaira Bolanos' presentation at the April 2010 workshop Global Issues in Governance of Natural Resources. |
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Considerations for design and implementation Jeffrey Hatcher - RRI
Jeffrey Hatcher's second presentation at the April 2010 workshop on Global Issues in Governance of Natural Resources. |
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Crafting the Next Generation of Forest Regulations Augusta Molnar - RRI
Augusta Molnar's presentation at the April 2010 workshop on Global Issues in Governance of Natural Resources. |
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State Trust Land Management and Forest Regulation in Montana Bob Harrington - Department of Natural Resources and Conservation
Bob Harrington's presentation at the April 2010 workshop on Global Issues in Governance of Natural Resources. |
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Indigenous and Afro-Descendant’s Rights & Resources and REDD Implications for decision-making and participation in Climate Mitigation Deborah - Barry
Deborah Barry's presentation given April 1, 2010 at University of Texas, Austin. |
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State of Play, Contributions of Communities, and What We Can Learn from Mexico Augusta Molnar - Rights and Resources
This presentation was made at the 'Forest Communities and Climate Change: Contributions from Mexico to the REDD Initiative, A South-South Dialogue.' The event took place on 26-17 April 2010 and was organized by PROFOR, World Bank, and CONAFOR. |
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Principles and Criteria for Effectiveness - Independent Advisory Group on Forests, Rights, and Climate Change
This presentation on the state of REDD was given by the Independent Advisory Group on Forests, Rights, and Climate Change at the UN-REDD Policy Board in Nairobi, Kenya on 18 March 2010. |
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Community Land and Forest Rights Status, Risks and Opportunities Jeffrey Hatcher - Rights and Resources
This presentation was made at the National Meeting on Community Lands in Nampula, Mozambique held from March 9 - 11, 2010.
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State Trust Land Management and Forest Regulation in Montana Bob Harrington - Department of Natural Resources and Conservation
Bob Harrington's presentation at the April 2010 workshop on Global Issues in Governance of Natural Resources. |
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MegaFlorestais 2009 - Programme - Rights and Resources Initiative
Agenda for MegaFlorestais 2009. The MegaFlorestais working group aims to foster closer relationships between forest agencies, collectively strengthening their abilities to play leading roles in advancing sustainable forestry and forestry’s contribution to global social and economic development. The meeting in British Columbia continued MegaFlorestais’ focus on forest tenure, policy and regulations, and the changing roles of forest agencies – issues that are particularly critical in British Columbia and Canada today because of the increased attention being paid to forests in the global discussions on climate change mitigation and adaptation. In addition, the meeting discussed transitions in the global forest industry, and how agencies are responding to ensure that their domestic industries continue to contribute to rural development, as well as climate change and the role of forest agencies in addressing this critical global challenge. |
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DC Dialogue - Opening Presentation - Day 1 Andy White - RRI
Presentation from 2nd Dialogue on Forests, Governance & Climate Change in Washington DC, 22-23 Oct. 2009. |
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MegaFlorestais 2009 - Indonesia's Experience with Forest Tenure and Governance A. F. Masud - Ministry of Forestry, Indonesia
1. Indonesia’s Forest 2. Forest Land Tenure 3. The Shifted of Paradigms 4. Devolution Processes 5. Problems 6. Concluding Remarks |
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DC Dialogue - Governance Money & REDD Rosalind Reeve - Global Witness
Presentation from 2nd Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change,Oct 22-23 2009. |
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DC Dialogue - Day 2 Opening Presentation Arvind Khare - RRI
Presentation from 2nd Dialogue on Forests, Governance & Climate Change, Oct 22-23 2009. |
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DC Dialogue - Forest Carbon Partnership Facility Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment Proposal for Comments Benoit Bosquet - World Bank
Presentation from 2nd Dialogue on Forests, Governance & Climate Change, Oct 22-23 2009. |
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DC Dialogue - Equitable and effective forest-based climate change mitigation Lessons from Nepal Bhola Bhattarai - FECOFUN
Presentation from 2nd Dialogue on Forests, Governance & Climate Change, Oct 22-23 2009. |
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Forest Carbon Partnership Facility Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment Proposal for Comments Benoit Bosquet - World Bank
Presentation from 2nd Dialogue on Forests, Governance & Climate Change, Oct 22-23 2009. |
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DC Dialogue - Defining Sub-National Brian Turner - Governor of California's Climate & Forest Taskforce
Presentation from 2nd Dialogue On Forests, Governance & Climate Change, Washington DC, Oct 22-23 2009. |
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DC Dialogue - The UN-REDD Programme Towards Transparency, Participation & Accountability Charles McNeill - UNDP
Presentation from 2nd Dialogue On Forests, Governance & Climate Change, Washington DC, Oct 22-23 2009. |
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Charlotte Streck - Climate Focus
Presentation from 2nd Dialogue On Forests, Governance & Climate Change, Washington DC, Oct 22-23 2009. |
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DC Dialogue - The EU FLEGT initiative Improving forest governance; excluding illegal timber Duncan Brack - Chatham House
Presentation from 2nd Dialogue On Forests, Governance & Climate Change, Washington DC, Oct 22-23 2009. |
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DC Dialogue - Indigenous Peoples in Bangkok UNFCCC Meeting Johnson Cerda - Conservation International
Presentation from 2nd Dialogue On Forests, Governance & Climate Change, Washington DC, Oct 22-23 2009. |
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DC Dialogue - Recent Developments from the UNFCCC Negociations Kate Horner - Friends of the Earth
Presentation from 2nd Dialogue On Forests, Governance & Climate Change, Washington DC, Oct 22-23 2009. |
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DC Dialogue - Forestry Governance and Climate Change in the Context of Community Forestry in Nepal Yuba Raj Bhusal - Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation
Powerpoint presentation from 2nd Dialogue On Forests, Governance & Climate Change, Washington DC, Oct 22-23 2009. |
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DC Dialogue - Forest governance and the Rules for REDD credits Experience at state-level in Brazil Laurent Micol - Instituto Centro de Vida
Presentation from 2nd Dialogue On Forests, Governance & Climate Change, Washington DC, Oct 22-23 2009. |
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DC Dialogue - REDD+ In International Climate Policy Rane Cortez - The Nature Conservancy
Presentation from 2nd Dialogue On Forests, Governance & Climate Change, Washington DC, Oct 22-23 2009. |
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DC Dialogue - Multilateral Initiatives to pilot REDD in PNG Kenn Mondiai - EcoForestry Forum
Presentation from 2nd Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change,Oct 22-23 2009. |
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MegaFlorestais 2009 - Canadian forests: From sink to source? Werner Kurz - Natural Resources Canada, the Canadian Forest Service
- Human perturbation to the global carbon cycle - Carbon balance in Canada’s managed forest - Mitigation options in the forest sector - Conclusions |
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MegaFlorestais 2009 - Forest Industry in Transition From “Big, Logging” to a (Robust, Resilient, Responsible, and Rich) New Forest Economy? Andy White - RRI
On small-medium forest enterprises: 1. Address tenure insecurity and lack of access to forest resources by local people and their enterprises 2. Reduce, remove policy and regulatory barriers (and associated corruption) to communities and SMFEs - Excessive plans, permits, taxes 4. Help build SMFE capacity- market information, credit and finance, business development assistance, SFM 5. Embrace the new lobbies for alternative, sustainable industry |
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MegaFlorestais 2009 - Main Developments in Brazilian Forests Antônio Carlos Hummel - Brazilian Forest Service
New developments for 2009 of forest sector governance and deforestation in Brazil. |
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MegaFlorestais 2009 - Forest Tenure and Governance Trends, Experiences, and Implications Arvind Khare - RRI
1. Transitions in Forest Tenure – What are the trends? 2. What we discussed and what we did not? 3. Why it matters? 4. Where is protection and restoration taking place and why? 5. Where is the Hope? 6. Implications for MegaFlorestais countries |
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MegaFlorestais 2009 - Economic Meltdown and Impacts on Markets for Forest Products What Has (and Has Not) Changed? Don Roberts - CIBC World Markets
Current Chaos Impact on the Traditional Forest Sector Impact on the Bio-Energy Sector Update on Global Bio-Energy Policies |
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MegaFlorestais 2009 - REDD: Issues, concerns and ways forward for forest agencies Jeffrey Hatcher - RRI
1. Key issues and concerns surrounding REDD • International design • Implementation • Civil society concerns 2. The role of tenure in achieving climate goals 3. Framework of actions 4. Questions for discussion |
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MegaFlorestais 2009 - Forest Areas and Public Forest Agencies: A Perspective Jim Farrell - Natural Resources Canada, the Canadian Forest Service
Issues Facing Canada - Changing demographics –changing expectations - Changing climate –changing forest - Changing economics –changing policies/investments - Changing science/technology –changing opportunity |
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MegaFlorestais 2009 - Overview of Forestry in British Columbia Jim Snetsinger - BC Ministry of Forests & Range
Landbase Forest Industry First Nations Forest Tenure and Pricing Forestry Roundtable Ministry of Forests and Range |
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MegaFlorestais 2009 - Forestry Reform in China Li Yucai - State Forestry Administration of P.R. China
Main Reform: • refine forestland tenure and create a bond of property rights on forestland and forest over it • contracted by each farmer family in collective villages Accompanied Reform: • Transferability of forest property • Harvest permission of timber forest • Mortgage or loan via forest property • Ecological compensation for public forest This reform is regarded as the greatest rural reform in China now: • covers the whole collective forestland of 166.67 million ha • expected to improve livelihoods of 700 million farmers |
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MegaFlorestais 2009 - The Amazon Fund Luiz Joels - Brazilian Forest Service
The Amazon Fund is a mechanism to receive donations which are applied in government and NGO activities for the prevention and monitoring of deforestation and to promote conservation and sustainable use of the Amazonian forest. It was created in August, 2008 |
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MegaFlorestais 2009 - Problems of Climate Change and Forest Conditions in Russia Mikhail Giryaev - Federal Forest Agency
The majority of the factors causing destruction of forests directly or indirectly are connected to a climate: - Influence adverse weather conditions (hurricanes, drought, flooding, changing balance of precipitation, natural catastrophe etc.) - Uncontrolled forest fires - Damage by insects during the periods of population explosion |
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MegaFlorestais 2009 - Ecosystem Services and Markets Toward a market-based investment strategy for conservation Sally Collins - Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets, USDA
Markets for ecosystem services… Place economic value on natural assets currently “outside the market” Compensate producers of environmental public goods and services |
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DC Dialogue - Do protected areas reduce deforestation? Ken Chomitz - Independent Evaluation Group, World Bank
Conclusions: Protected Areas in the TF biome generally have significantly lower deforestation than comparable non-protected areas. Multi-use protected areas generally provide at least as much deforestation reduction (in absolute terms) as strict protected areas. Indigenous areas have a very high protective impact Rigorous evaluation methods can give very different results from naïve approaches. |
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Kyeretwie Opoku - Civic Response
Session 3 presentation from Kyeretwie Opoku, Workshop on "Community Rights, Forests, and Climate Change" |
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The State and the Community in Forest Areas Roles, Risks and Urgency of Transformative Action Andy White - Rights and Resources
This presentation provides an overview of the roles/responsibilities of the state and communities in relation to forests and forest areas. |
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How to increase forests’ contribution to economic development small is big! Augusta Molnar - Rights and Resources
This presentation offers an overview of how tenure and market trends are changing and the role that community-based enterprise can play. |
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Community Forest Rights in the Context of Climate Change A Global Perspective Jeffrey Hatcher - Rights and Resources
Session 1 presentation from Jeffrey Hatcher, Workshop on "Community Rights, Forests, and Climate Change" |
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Global Policy Perspective on Forests, Environment & Well-Being Maharaj Muthoo
Session 1 presentation from Majaraju Muthoo, Workshop on "Community Rights, Forests, and Climate Change" |
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Governance, Safeguards, and Accountability How to Ensure Climate Investments are Effective Arvind Khare - Rights and Resources
The presentation offers an overview of governance and accountability concerns related to new climate investments and assessment of previous interventions to reduce deforestation and degradation. |
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Community Forest Rights in the Context of Climate Change A Global Perspective Jeffrey Hatcher - Rights and Resources
This presentation examines the status of community forest rights, the implications of recognizing community forest rights, and lessons learned for forest‐climate interventions. |
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Community Forest Resource and Community Forest Rights Implementation and Institutional Challenges under Forest Rights Act, 2006 Sanjay Upadhyay - Enviro Legal Defence Firm
Session 1 presentation from Sanjay Upadhyay, Workshop on "Community Rights, Forests and Climate Change" |
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An Overview of REDD, REDD plus and REDD readiness Varghese Paul - TERI
Session 2 presentation from Varghese Paul, Workshop on "Community Rights, Forests, and Climate Change" |
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Governance, Safeguards, and Accountability How to Ensure Climate Investments are Effective Arvind Khare - Rights and Resources
Session 4 presentation by Arvind Khare, Workshop on "Community Rights, Forests, and Climate Change" |
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Financial Instruments for Emission Reductions from Forests FCPF, World Bank TERI
Session 4 presentation, Workshop on "Community Rights, Forests, and Climate Change" |
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Tenurial, Community Rights and Climate Change A.F. Masud - Ministry of Forestry, Republic of Indonesia
Session 2 presentation from A.F. Masud, Workshop on "Community Rights, Forests, and Climate Change" |
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Manish Bapna - World Resources Institute
Presented at the RRI-Chatham House Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change on 8 July 2009. |
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Safeguarding rights in the FCPF Marcus Colchester - Forest Peoples Programme
Presented at the RRI-Chatham House Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change on 8 July 2009. |
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UN-REDD, FCPF, FIP: Creating Precedents & Standards Mark E. Cackler - World Bank
Presented at the RRI-Chatham House Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change on 8 July 2009. |
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The Forests Dialogue (TFD): Forest and Climate Change Initiative James Mayers - International Institute for Environment and Development
Presented at the RRI-Chatham House Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change on 8 July 2009. |
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Rights, Rules and Emissions Reductions: Social, environmental and governance "readiness for REDD" International Climate and Forest Initiative - The Norewegian Government
Presented at the RRI-Chatham House Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change on 8 July 2009. |
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Safeguards and Governance for Effective REDD Programs Andy White - RRI
Governance, Safeguards and Accountability: How to ensure that REDD investments are effective in reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation? |
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Discours d'ouverture présenté par M. Elvis Ngolle Ngolle Elvis Ngolle Ngolle - MINFOF
Le discours d'ouverture présenté par M. Elvis Ngolle Ngolle |
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Allocution de M. Emmanuel Ze Meka, directeur de l'OIBT Emmanuel Ze Meka - OIBT
Les remarques de M. Ze Meka à l'ouverture de la conférence internationale portant sur la tenure forestière, gouvernance et entreprises. |
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Conference Background presented by Mr. Kyeretwie Opoku Kyeretwie Opoku - Civic Response
Background information and context on the international conference on tenure, governance and enterprise provided by Kyeretwie Opoku of Civic Response. |
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Governance, Safeguards and Accountability How to ensure that REDD investments are effective in reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation? Andy White, Jeff Hatcher - Rights and Resources
Presentation given at the Second UN-REDD Programme Policy Board Meeting in Montreux, Switzerland on 15 June 2009. |
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Allocation d'ouverture prononcée par Mme. Cécile Ndjebet Cécile Ndjebet - Cameroun Ecologie
A statement delivered by Cécile Ndjebet at the opening of the International Conference on Forest Tenure, Governance and Enterprise: New Opportunities for Livelihood and Wealth in West and Central Africa. (French) |
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Yaoundé Conference Background Presented by Kyeretwie Opoku Kyeretwie Opoku - Civic Response
Background of the Yaoundé Conference presented by Kyeretwie Opoku of Civic Response |
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Effective and Efficient Emission Reduction through Community Forestry UNFF 8 Side Event: Community Forestry for Forest-based Climate Mitigation Arvind Khare - Rights and Resources
Presentation delivered at a side event hosted by RRI, GACF, IFFA at the UNFF8. The presentation includes definitions, origins of forest carbon emissions, comparative costs of mitigation, emerging lessons and implications of emission reduction through community forestry. |
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Community Forestry for Forest Based Climate Change Mitigation Forest and People Ghan Shyam Pandey - FECOFUN, GACF
Presentation given by FECOFUN at a side event at the UNFF 8. Provides an overview of the experience of community forestry in Nepal and how it has successfully allowed forests and people to live harmoniously. The presentation also raises some of the issues related to forest based climate change mitigation. |
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Climate Change Mitigation in Action UNFF Side Event - International Family Forestry Alliance
Presentation given by International Family Forestry Alliance at a UNFF 8 side event. Details forest owners' contributions to climate change mitigation. |
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Forest Tenure Transitions - Rights and Resources
An overview of changes in forest tenure reform from 2002-2008 |
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Forest Governance Reforms in Russia Mikhail Giryaev
Overview of recent forest tenure reforms in Russia |
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Sten Nilsson - IIASA
Presentation on current technologies to combat deforestation |
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Foundations for Effectiveness - Rights and Resources
A framework for ensuring effective climate change mitigation and adaptation in forest areas while ensuring human rights and development |
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The Global Bio-energy Market: Developments and Implications Don Roberts
An overview of the current market for bio-energy and its impact on forestry management |
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Megaflorestais 2008_Azevedo Brazil Brazil Facts and Forests Tasso Azevedo - BFS
Facts and figures related to Brazil's forests and current programs undertaken by the forest service. |
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Emmanuel Marfo
Generally, it is well known that implementing national public policies at the local arena is often characterized by conflicts with significant show of power-play. This is especially the case for policies on natural resource exploitation as various actors (both at local, national and sometimes international) often have vested interests. The literature on both natural resource policy implementation and conflicts is very rich with power occupying a center stage. Whiles there has been larger public and scholarly interest in understanding power-play in commons’ governance, there is little knowledge on the subject, especially with regards to systematic inquiry into how the various actors empower themselves and under what conditions they have been effective or otherwise. More recently, the notion of actor-empowerment has emerged as an analytical concept to study the role of power in conflicts. Actor-empowerment refers to the process through which actors in conflicts mobilize resources to undertake strategies of influence in order to achieve the capability to manage experienced impairments caused by other actors. The paper discusses empirical observations of actor-empowerment in conflicts related to forest-mining policy in Ghana and draw lessons for how commons resource governance can be improved. The paper argues that interventions in commons‘governance must focus on building actor conflict capabilities to assess critical power resources and create influence boundaries to interlock actor interests. In the studied case, traditional legitimacy, political legitimacy and access to economic resources for example were identified as critical for actor effectiveness in conflict management. However, the paper will introduce another dimension of effectiveness, episodic effectiveness, which is also crucial in governing resource conflicts. The recommendations are premised on two important. First, those policies on commons exploitation are often embedded in complex and plural systems of ownership, tenure and access rights. Second, that resource governance is aimed at achieving social justice, democracy and accountability in the policy landscape. |
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Ruben de Koning - UNDP Oslo Governance Center
20% of dense tropical forest is located in areas affected by armed conflict since 1990. Between the different continents Africa is home to most tropical forest under threat – 130 million ha out of a total of 220 million ha. Recognizing the significant overlap of forest and conflicts commentators have identified a new type of “forest war” on the rise in the western half of the continent, stretching from Sierra Leone to the DRC. Rather than territory or ideology, these conflicts seem to feature natural resources and the rights to these as the most important drivers. Whereas resources are critical drivers of African “forest wars” the lines of causation are not straightforward. Resources can be used by belligerent groups to finance war efforts whereby prolonging conflict. State resource dependence may damage economic growth and state performance, increasing the likelihood of violent opposition. And local opposition to resource extraction practices may scale up to widespread violence. Above linkages concern mainly non-renewable high value resources. In addition, unequal access to land, forest and water also add to grievances that motivate armed conflict. Forest wars in Africa tend to feature more than one of the above linkages. The present paper will briefly illustrate the multiple resource conflict linkages in Sierra Leone and the eastern DRC. Next it will review how the different linkages are addresses in past and ongoing peace efforts and estimate the risk of backlashes to the peace process as a result of wrongly or under recognizing certain dimensions. The paper argues that little progress is being made to clarify and recognize individual and collective property and access rights. Instead post-war resource governance approaches insist on centralist models to legalize high value resource extraction and root out all informal activities. Recommended actions include (1) selective sanctions on some resources and players in the eastern DRC; (2) concession reviews in mineral industries that allows for the legalization of informal business operations in both countries – the reviews should be made part of peacemaking in eastern DRC; and (3) land tenure and justice reforms that clarify individual rights vis-à-vis the community in Sierra Leone and between communities in the eastern DRC. |
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08 IASC | Understanding conflict under decentralized forest governance Lessons from Indonesia and Vietnam Yurdi Yasmi, John Guernier - RECOFTC
The past decade has seen unprecedented change in South East Asia. Countries in this region have been undergoing rapid socio-political, economic and environmental changes. Indonesia, the largest and most populous country in the region, emerged as a new democratic country following the collapse of Soeharto’s totalitarian regime. In the decade since, Indonesia has been working progressively towards decentralizing almost all sectors, including for forestry. The results of forest decentralization in Indonesia have been rather mixed. While progress has been made in terms of more space being available for local actors (i.e. district government, local communities) to engage in decision-making, well-functioning forest governance systems are largely absent. A persisting problem is increased stakeholder conflict, some of which become severe and debilitating; resulting in distrust, resource degradation and violence. The principle reason for this escalation is the inability of conflicting parties to address the conflict in a timely manner and make effective use of available resources to address conflict. We argue that conventional conflict management approaches do not allow appropriate capacity development of conflicting parties as most conflict management interventions are externally driven. In other words, little attention is paid to maximizing internal actors’ capacities in addressing the conflict. After all, these stakeholders know best their situation and are therefore in a stronger position to maximize the use of and improve their capacity, which is a central component in addressing conflict. Therefore, addressing an escalated conflict constructively through the development of conflict capability is the central theme of this paper. Drawing upon the results of a case study from Sumatra, Indonesia, this study examines how forestry conflict under decentralization processes escalates and to what extent conflict capability can be developed. Our case describes a conflict between a logging company and local communities. We analyze how such a conflict arose and what factors led to its rapid escalation. In the discussing this case, we point out a number of actions related to building conflict capability that are worth considering if we intend to address such conflict constructively. Learning from this case, we also discuss the specific need for capacity building of NRM actors as a pro-active approach to addressing conflict. We share RECOFTC’s experience in capacity building and generate lessons as to how such capacity building activities may contribute to tackling NRM conflict in Indonesia and Southeast Asia in general. Finally, we draw some general conclusions and recommendations. |
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Civil Society Advisory Group to the ITTO
The Civil Society Advisory Group panel presentation on community based forest management and enterprises, as given during the meeting of operational modalities of the ITTC in Accra, Ghana. |
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2008 Liberia: The Community Forest Rights Law: Where is it going? Liz Alden Wily - Independent Land Tenure and Natural Resource Analyst
Presentation on international forest tenure and forest governance trends, the status of customary land rights in Liberia, and recommendations for the Community Rights Law. |
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2008 GACF Cameroon- Valorisation des PFNL par l'Entreprenarariat Communautaire Sa Majeste Bruno Mvondo - ONEPCAM
Presentation on the commercialization of non timber forest products through community entrepreneurship. |
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Social Dimensions of Climate Change: Peril or People? Andy White, Augusta Molnar, Arvind Khare - Rights and Resources
A presentation made at the World Bank conference on the Social Dimensions of Climate Change, held in Washington DC in March 2008. In a presentation to climate change and land policy experts, RRI questioned the social dimensions of climate change interventions and urged intergovernmental institutions to consider the social implications of mitigation and adaptation mechanisms, and questioned the inherent inequity in “who sets the rules”. |
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2007 CFE Conference: Amani Butterfly Enterprise, Tanga, Tanzania Cecilia Scurrah-Ehrhart
A presentation of the Amani Butterfly Enterprise, as given at the 2007 Community Forest Enterprise Conference in Acre, Brazil. |
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2007 CFE Conference: Including the Excluded: A Pro-Poor Bel Fruit Juice Making Enterprise in Nepal Dinesh Paudel
A presentation of the Bel Fruit Juice enterprise as given at the 2007 Community Forest Enterprise Conference in Acre, Brazil. |
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Netra Timsina
Presentation of the Chaubas-Bhumlu Community Sawmill case study as given at the 2007 Community Forest Enterprise Conference in Acre, Brazil. |
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2007 CFE Conference: A Brief History of the COATLAHL Cooperative: At Last A Little Optimism Filippo Del Gatto
Presentation of the history and experience of the COATLAHL Cooperative in Honduras, as given at the 2007 Community Forest Enterprise Conference in Acre, Brazil. |
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2007 CFE Conference: Community Forestry Enterprises in the Gambia Wolfgang Thoma, Kanimang Camara
A presentation of The Gambia case study as given at the 2007 Community Forest Enterprise Conference in Acre, Brazil. |
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2007 CFE Conference: Ixtepeji Forest Community, Oaxaca, Mexico Salvador Anta Fonseca
A presentation of the case study of the Ixtepeji community forest enterprise in Oaxaca, Mexico, as given at the 2007 Community Forest Enterprise Conference in Acre, Brazil. |
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Alejandra Martin
Presentation of the case study of community forest enterprises in Manicore, Brazil, as given at the 2007 Community Forest Enterprise Conference in Acre, Brazil. |
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2007 CFE Conference: A Case Study of the Ngola-Achip Community Forest in East Cameroon Kenneth Angu Angu
Presentation of the Ngola-Achip Community Forest Enterprise case study in Cameroon, as given at the 2007 Community Forest Enterprise Conference in Acre, Brazil. |
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Juan Pulhin, Mark Anthony Ramirez
Presentation of the case study of the Ngan, Panansalan, Pagsabangan Forest Resources Development Cooperative (NPPFRDC) as given at the 2007 Community Forest Enterprise Conference in Acre, Brazil. |
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2007 CFE Conference: PingShang Bamboo Group: A Community Enterprise in China's Bamboo Sector R. Anders West, Christopher Aldridge
Presentation of the PingShang case study, as given at the 2007 Community Forest Enterprise Conference in Acre, Brazil. |
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Carmenza Robledo
Presentation of the experience of communities in San Nicolas, as given at the 2007 Community Forest Enterprise Conference in Acre, Brazil. |
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2007 CFE Conference: Community Forestry in Quintana Roo, Mexico Peter Wilshusen
Presentation of the Quintana Roo, Mexico country case study as given at the 2007 Community Forest Enterprise Conference in 2007. |
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Yati Bun, Bazaki Baput - FPCD
Presentation of the Madang Province case study as given at the 2007 International Community Forest Management and Enterprises Conference in Acre, Brazil. |
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Claudio Garibay Orozco
Case study presentation of the El Balcon Ejido community forest enterprise as given at the 2007 Community Forest Management and Enterprises Conference in Acre, Brazil. |
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