In July 2013, the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Forest (AIDESEP) and the Federation of Native Communities of the Madre Dios River and its Tributaries (FENAMAD) recorded a video of members of the indigenous community “Mashco Piro,” an indigenous group that lives in voluntary isolation in Peru. The video constitutes definitive proof …
The Community Forestry Pre-Congress, an initiative by the Mesoamerican Alliance of People and Forests, will take place on September 24th and 25th in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. BIC and more than twenty other organizations from eight different countries will participate in the Community Forestry Pre-Congress: “Community Forestry as the Basis of Governance and the Starting …
The Mesoamerican Alliance of People and Forests (Alianza Mesoamericana de Pueblos y Bosques), an umbrella organization of indigenous and community forest organizations, recently published an announcement highlighting the failure of the REDD-CCAD/GIZ Program to invite indigenous authorities to a regional conference on forest governance. The event, held in Panama on July 9, 2013, is the second …
The Forest Carbon Partnership Facility’s Carbon Fund held back-to-back meetings of the Working Group on the Methodological Framework (MF), and the Carbon Fund in Paris, June 20-24, 2013. Despite plans to finalize a draft of the MF to circulate for public comment by the end of the CF7, the failure to meet this goal signifies …
Mexican civil society and indigenous representatives convened on June 24th and 25th in Mexico City for a workshop entitled “Towards the Construction and Articulation of Knowledge in the Process of Shaping REDD+”. With the goal of creating a new space for dialogue and shared learning around REDD, regional representatives from the Yucatan Peninsula, Central Mexico, and Northern …
As the consultation period of the first phase of the World Bank safeguard policy review and update concluded at the end of April, two coalitions of civil society organizations submitted comments on Forests and Natural Habitats Operational Policies The two CSO submissions outlined opportunities, concerns, and recommendations for the revision of Forests and Natural Habitats …
Development of the FCPF Carbon Fund’s Methodological Framework and Pricing Approach (MFPA) is currently under way through a series of Design Fora, during which specific issues and expert-drafted issue papers are discussed by Carbon Fund donors and participants, civil society, and indigenous peoples representatives. Design Forum One, in January, focused on the Carbon Fund’s general approach and carbon accounting issues.
The second meeting of the FCPF Carbon Fund Working Group took place March 13-14, 2013 in Washington, DC. The purpose of the meeting was to validate the approach being taken by the FCPF Facility Management Team and Technical Advisory Panel towards designing the Carbon Fund Methodological Framework.
The Carbon Fund’s Methodological Framework and Pricing Approach (MFPA) is currently in development at the FCPF. The MFPA will provide guidance on how countries should address key issues in development of emissions reductions programs through the Carbon Fund- the $390 million performance-based payment fund of the FCPF.
The World Bank‘s $4.1bn (£2.6bn) investments in forestry over the past 10 years have done little to reduce poverty, improve conservation, tackle climate change or benefit local communities in developing countries, a study by its own inspectors has found.