Deforestation

Describes the aims and achievements of the "Strengthening Voices for Better Choices" project in Brazil, particularly as it relates to work in Acre.

IUCN is looking to replicate and improve the implementation of its role as facilitator for civil society and private sector involvement in other countries’ VPA negotiations. To that end, IUCN sought to learn from its experience in Cameroon and contracted The Keystone Center (TKC) to conduct an external evaluation of its role and make recommendations for improvement.

The SVBC discussion, which helped create this report, took place at the Chatham House Illegal Logging Update Meeting on 24 June 2009.

Cette brochure est un bref résumé du document de travail de l’UICN « Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change/ REDD – An overview of current discussions and main issues », disponible à l’adresse : http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/iucn_briefing_ips_and_redd_march_2010… and http://www.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/Rep-2010-022.pdf

This brochure presents a brief summary of IUCN’s working document ‘Indigenous People and Climate Change/ REDD – An overview of current discussions and main issues”, available at: http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/iucn_briefing_ips_and_redd_march_2010… and http://www.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/Rep-2010-022.pdf

This document provides an overview and analysis of current international discussions on main issues around indigenous peoples and REDD. A compilation with links to various related resources allows the reader easy access to additional reading and relevant key documents.