Mid-October, the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Carbon Fund under the World Bank has accepted Laos’ Emission Reduction Program Idea Note (ER-PIN) in its thirteen’s meeting in Brussels. The acceptance paves the way for REDD+ performance-based payments. The GIZ project CliPAD (Climate Protection through Avoided Deforestation) together with JICA, SUFORD-SU...
Sustainable forest management (SFM) is one of the priorities on the path to responding to the adverse impacts of climate change. Deforestation and forest degradation are responsible for one sixth (1/6) of carbon dioxide emissions globally, and forests play a key role in mitigating this environmental threat, absorbing one...
Since the submission of the ER-PIN[1] in May 2014 to the Carbon Fund, the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) has been supporting the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) in drafting the Emission Reduction Program Document (ERPD) for in the North Central Agro-Ecological Region (Fig. 1) of...
The new Lao government, which has been in office since the beginning of 2016, is increasingly opposed to illegal logging and timber exports. An analysis of Chinese and Vietnamese customs data shows that the timber exports to both countries increased by 70% between 2012 and 2014 and reached around 1,600,000...
Although the event is still a year down the road the Call for Abstracts has already been opened and will close on 30th November. The Congress provides a platform for the exchange of scientific knowledge across all scientific disciplines relevant in forest research. Two sessions of the event should be...
The Sector Program International Forest Policy and the Support Program to the Lao EU-FLEGT process jointly organize a brown-bag lunch on improved transparency, broad participation and traceability in timber supply chains – what other sectors and initiatives could learn from the FLEGT process. For more details of the event,...
Exchange of Letter of Agreement between Forest Department (MONREC), Myanmar, and ICIMOD/GIZ Photo courtesy: FRI With the objective of improving the conditions for implementing REDD+ measures to mitigate climate change that are socially and environmentally sound in the four Himalayan countries of Bhutan, India, Myanmar, and Nepal, the REDD+ Himalaya...
To communicate the valuable experiences and lessons learned to the wider REDD+ community, both in Indonesia and internationally, a new book has been jointly developed. Titled “Safeguards Information System for REDD+ in Indonesia – Moving towards an Operational SIS-REDD+”, the book was launched in September 2016 and developed collaboratively...
“If we can make a difference – we can make things happen – then that’s the legacy we will leave for the next generation,” DENR Undersecretary for Field Operations Isabelo Montejo said. The municipality of Macrohon, situated in Southern Leyte, recently witnessed the first signing that will pave way for...
A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed between the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) on 14 July at ICIMOD’s headquarters in Nepal. Judith Karl, Executive Secretary, UNCDF and David Molden, Director General, ICIMOD signed the MOU in the presence...
