This list contains 19 entry(ies).
This document aims to guide proponents and developers of forest landscape restoration (FLR) activities and programmes in the rapid estimation of FLR mitigation potential, alignment with national greenhouse gas (GHG) estimation processes and identification of opportunities to enhance the role of F
Author(s):
- König, Simon
- Matson, Erin D.
- Krilasevic, Elmedina
- Garcia Espinosa, Maria
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Forest Conservation Programme
The value and role of mangroves, saltmarshes and seagrasses for climate change mitigation was established back in 2009 by reports by IUCN and UNEP to focus attention on addressing a critical gap in national carbon accounting and management.
Author(s):
- Herr, Dorothée
- Himes-Cornell, Amber H.
- Laffoley, D.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
- GRID-Arendal
- IUCN, Global Marine and Polar Programme
- Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation
- UNEP
Organization(s):
- Conservation International
- Forest Trends, US
- IUCN, Global Marine and Polar Programme
- Nature Conservancy, US
- Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions
- Wetlands International
This document presents methodological approaches for estimating atmospheric carbon removals from forest landscape restoration initiatives at two scales: programs and projects.
Author(s):
- Casarim, F.M.
- Pearson, Timothy R. H.
- Sidman, G.
Organization(s):
- IUCN, Global Forest and Climate Change Programme
En el presente documento se identifican los aspectos legales por generarse o reformarse para la implementación de diferentes opciones de mecanismos de distribución de beneficios REDD+ y se resaltan las oportunidades que ofrecen el marco legal e institucional mexicano para los mecanismos de distri
Author(s):
- Carrillo Fuentes, Juan Carlos
Organization(s):
- Centro Mexicano de Derecho Ambiental (CEMDA)
- IUCN, Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (ORMACC)
The synthesis report informs future European environmental policy in general and its implementation between 2015 and 2020 in particular.
Organization(s):
- European Environment Agency, DK
Many environmental and social benefits will result from implementing activities to tackle emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and to promote the conservation of forest carbon stocks, as well as from the sustainable management of forests and carbon enhancements in developing countr
Author(s):
- Balderas Torres, Arturo
- Skutsch, Margaret McCall
Organization(s):
- Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental (CIGA) de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), MX
- Germany, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
- IUCN, Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (ORMACC)
La implementación de las actividades para reducir las emisiones procedentes de la deforestación y la degradación forestal en los paises en desarrollo, para la promoción de la conservación de los acervos forestales de carbono, la gestión sostenible de los bosques y la mejora de los acervos de carb
Author(s):
- Balderas Torres, Arturo
- Skutsch, Margaret McCall
Organization(s):
- Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental (CIGA) de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), MX
- Germany, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
- IUCN, Regional Office for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean (ORMACC)
Wetlands have been the focus of conservation and restoration efforts for over a century, and governments, international actors (NGOs and academia) and local communities around the world are now increasingly engaging in wetland restoration or avoiding wetland degration activities for climate chang
Author(s):
- Herr, Dorothée
- Howard, Jennifer
- Pidgeon, Emily
- Silvius, Marcel J.
Organization(s):
- IUCN
- Conservation International
- Global Environment Facility (GEF)
- UNEP
- Wetlands International
This report sets out the importance of carbon in the open ocean and, through examples, illustrates the significance and values of some of its major carbon pools and sinks.
Author(s):
- Baxter, J. M.
- Laffoley, D.
- Oliver, James
- Thevenon, F.
Organization(s):
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- IUCN, Global Marine and Polar Programme
- La Fondation d'enterprise Total
- The Ocean Foundation, US
This report sets out the importance of carbon in the open ocean and, through examples, illustrates the significance and values of some of its major carbon pools and sinks.
Author(s):
- Baxter, J. M.
- Laffoley, D.
- Oliver, James
- Thevenon, F.
Organization(s):
- IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA)
- IUCN, Global Marine and Polar Programme
- La Fondation d'enterprise Total
- The Ocean Foundation, US
The 2012 UNEP Year Book spotlights two emerging issues that underline the challenges but also the choices nations need to consider to deliver a sustainable 21st century urgently improved management of the worlds soils and the decommissioning of nuclear reactors.
Belarus ranks 8th among the world's countries in terms of peatland CO2 emissions and occupies 3rd place in CO2-emissions per unit land area. In recent years, tens of thousands of hectares of drained peatlands in Belarus have been rewetted.
Author(s):
- Tanneberger, Franziska
- Wichtmann, Wendelin
This publication describes specific steps any business can take to implement sound, practical, climate-related corporate policies. Based on Andrew J.
Organization(s):
- Pew Center on Global Climate Change
- University of Michigan, Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterpries, US
The colour of carbon matters. Green carbon is the carbon stored in the plants and soil of natural ecosystems and is a vital part of the global carbon cycle.
Author(s):
- Mackey, Brendan (Brendan G.)
- Keith, Heather
- Berry, Sandra L.
- Lindenmayer, David B.
Organization(s):
- Australian National University, Fenner School of Environment and Society, AU
Author(s):
- Flavin, Christopher
- Mastny, Lisa
Organization(s):
- International Council for Science (ICSU), Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)
Organization(s):
- International Council for Science (ICSU), Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)
Organization(s):
- International Council for Science (ICSU), Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE)
