Participants and panelists at the 5th RRI Dialogue on Forests, Governance, and Climate Change assessed the emerging REDD+ partnership, the recent UNFCCC sessions in Bonn…
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RRI leads discussion on REDD’s architeecture and implication for local communities at its 4th Dialogue on Forests, Governance, and Climate Change
RRI discusses REDD’s architecture and areas of intervention in enhancing local participation and benefits at the 4th Dialogue on Forests, Governance and Climate Change.
RRI and partners participate in the first Meeting of the Steering Committee on REDD and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America
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RRI supports the first large scale survey of China’s Forest Tenure Reform
A new analysis, China?s Forest Tenure Reforms: Impacts and implications for choice, conservation, and climate change, summarizes results of the first large scale survey of…
RRI second Dialogue on Forests, Governance, and Climate Change addresses the implications of climate-related legislation for forest communities
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RECOFT holds a press conference to address the lack of equitable social protection and benefits
The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) held a press conference to address the lack of equitable social protection and benefits in forest-carbon markets. Discussions…
The indigenous Surui people of the Amazon basin gain legal ownership of forest-carbon
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RRI examines links between human rights protection, biodiversity, and natural resource conservation
A new publication co-sponsored by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Rights-based approaches: Exploring Issues…
RRI hosts its first Dialogue on Forests, Governance, and Climate Change
Expert thought leaders on the role of forest governance and tenure rights in combating climate change gathered for RRI’s and Chatham House first Dialogue on…
Intercooperation outlines strategies for addressing the negative effectsd of climate change on Nepali forest communities
Intercooperation’s latest report, Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in Nepal?s Forest Sector: How Can Rural Communities Benefit, outlines possible strategies for addressing the negative…
RECOFTC analyzes the implications of carbon financing for forest communities
The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) co-organized the first regional forum for people and forests, Carbon Financing and Community Forestry. The forum brought together…
Governments and civil society actors discuss methods for effectively dealing with climate change
In a South-South Dialogue on Community Rights, Forests and Climate Change organized by RRI and TERI (The Energy and Resources Institute, India), leading representatives from…
Analyzing the linkages between payment for environmental services, forests, and poverty.
The Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) produced a new issues paper on Payments for Environmental Services (PES) and Poverty: Risks and Opportunities, which analyzes…
FPP and RECOFTC hold a workshop on Free, Prior and Informed consent (FPIC), REDD and conflict management in Manokwari, West Papua, Indonesia
The Forest People’s Programme (FPP) and the Center for People and Forests (RECOFTC) carried out a workshop on Free, Prior and Informed consent (FPIC), REDD,…
Report highlights the increasing risks to investment projects and REDD projects when Indigenous People’s rights are ignored
Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) released a brief on Indigenous Peoples? rights and REDD mechanisms. Analyzing the outcomes of the Saramaka People v. Suriname case, the…
Social mapping of forest areas in Central America illustrate growing external pressures faced by communities
The Indigenous and Peasant Coordinator of Communal Agroforestry in Central America (ACICAFOC) created a social map of forest areas in Central America to help strengthen…
Updated report on rights and accountability concerns in the proposed REDD initiatives reveal that existing intergovernmental proposals contain no clear commitments to address rights and equity issues
The Forest People’s Programme (FPP) released their report Seeing REDD: Forests, climate change mitigation and the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities just in…
At the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings in Poland, RRI partners hold numerous side-events to promote the safeguarding of forest communities rights and interests
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RRI produces a policy brief exploring effective climate change mitigation and adaptation that human rights and development in forest areas
This policy brief provides negotiators, governments, and inter-governmental organizations a road map for ensuring that responses to climate change do not undermine national social and…
RRI and Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) organize the Oslo conference on Rights, Forests, and Climate Change
The conference provided the first major opportunity for advocates and policymakers to consider climate change mitigation and adaptation from a rights-based perspective. Participants discussed options…
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