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In this submission the Ecosystems Climate Alliance provides its feedback to the draft text of the Interim REDD+ partnership under the so-called Paris-Oslo process.
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FCCC/CP/2010/2: Work undertaken by the Conference of the Parties at its fifteenth session on the basis of the report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention.
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A number of member and observers organisations of the Ecosystems Climate Alliance provided this submission to the Bolivia Summit to call for a review of forest defintions, terms and classifications under the UNFCCC for the purpose of the negotiated REDD+ policy.
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ECA has expressed its strong concern at the exclusion of observers and civil society constituencies during the last two days of the climate negotiations at COP 15 in Copenhagen in a letter addressed to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. Download this letter here.
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This policy brief summarises the position of Wetlands International for a post-2012 climate agreement. It provides text suggestions for incorporating the emissions from peatlands in decisions on land use emissions in both developed countries and developing countries. Currently, peatland emission remain unaccounted in Annex 1 countries and are in danger to remain ignored under REDD schemes. The policy brief also emphasises the role of wetland conservation and restoration in climate change adaptation strategies.
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This report is intended to inform the development of a monitoring system for REDD that goes beyond the measurement, reporting and verification of emissions reductions and carbon stored in forests (C-MRV). It identifies governance challenges and the risks presented to investment by weak governance and extensive illegality in REDD countries, and provides the rationale for a broad-based robust monitoring system.
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Independent Forest Monitoring (IFM) has been developed over the last decade to monitor logging, legal compliance and forest law enforcement. Through the provision of publicly accessible, objective information on the control of activities in the forest sector, IFM addresses governance and transparency and supports forest law enforcement. IFM is, in effect, a form of systems or governance monitoring. This report presents a detailed review and analysis of lessons learned from implementing IFM in practice.
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The report presents the first overview ever of peatland carbon data for all countries and regions of the world. This overview has been produced to facilitate the UNFCCC climate negotiations in response to a call by countries for emission data caused by the Land Use Change and Forestry sector. For every country/area information is given on extent and status of peatlands, volume of the peat resource and on CO2 emissions from different types of land use, both for the year 1990 as well as for the year 2008.
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By Wetlands International with regard to addressing GHG emissions from peatlands in REDD, d.d. 30 October 2009
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The post-Kyoto United Nations climate agreement is at risk of subsidising industrial scale logging of primary forests, according to Trick or Treat?: REDD, Development and Sustainable Forest Management, a briefing paper released October 2nd by Global Witness. Without good governance and a focus on protecting intact natural forests rather than the forest industry, any climate agreement has little chance of addressing the nearly 25 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions that stem from the destruction of tropical forests and peatlands.
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