Carbon Smart List

Carbon Off Set and Carbon Sequestration

FAQ FY08 GCC Reporting Instructions

 

Technical Report - Communities and Climate Change, The Clean Development Mechanism and Village-based Forest Restoration in Central India

Communities and Climate Change: The Clean Development Mechanism and Village-based Forest Restoration in Central India. A Case Study from Harda Forest Division, Madhya Pradesh, India. Mark Poffenberger, Editor. 2001.

Assessing the Potential for Carbon Sequestration at Three Forest Fire Restoration Sites in Mexico

Task Order 838 Contract No. PCE-I-00-96-00002-00 Prepared by: Winrock International Sandra Brown Matt Delaney David Shoch Prepared for: USAID/Mexico Region: Latin America and the Caribbean; Task area: Mexico CO2 Sequestration Potential Assessment; Tech area: Forestry

MAKIRA FOREST CONSERVATION-BASED CARBON-OFFSET PROJECT BIOMASS PART-II METHODOLOGICAL GUIDELINES FOR ESTIMATING AND MONITORING CARBON STORAGE

EPIQ IQC, PCE-I-00-96-00002-00, Task Order No.839 Prepared by: Pierre O. Berner, PAGE-Consultants Projet d’Appui à la Gestion de l’Environnement International Resources Group, Ltd. 1211 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036 USA Prepared for: USAID/Madagascar November 14 & 15, 2001 Region: Africa/Centrally Funded Activities. Task Order: Madagascar Enabling Conditions for Sustainable Policies. Technical Area: Biodiversity Conservation

Financial_Incentives.pdf

Financial_Incentives.pdf

Financial Incentives to Communities for Stewardship of Environmental Resources

Financial Incentives to Communities for Stewardship of Environmental Resources Feasibility Study November 30, 2004. Report made available by USAID Asia Near East Bureau.

Technical Report - Carbon Storage, Sequestration and Forest Management

CARBON STORAGE, SEQUESTRATION AND FOREST MANAGEMENT. by Robert M. Clausen and Henry L. Gholz, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611, USA. Technical Editor: E. Jean Brennan, Environment Center, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, D.C.

The Kyoto Protocol's Options for Countries Not Included in Annex B—an Analysis for Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Task Order No. 813 Contract No. PCE-I-813-96-00002-00 Workplan Task 3.1 Report By Daniel Dudek and Alexander Golub October 1998 For Prepared for: Central Asia Mission United States Agency for International Development Prepared by: Environmental Policies and Institutions for Central Asia (EPIC) Region: Europe and Eurasia Task Order: Central Asia Water and Energy Policy / BNI (CAR) Tech area: Dissemination of Policy Knowledge/Environmental Communication

Green Highways Consortium USAID Semi-Annual Report 2005

During the last semester, the Green Highways Consortium aimed to attract new partnerships and collaborations, while strengthening the initiatives among its members, the interaction with social groups, organizations and movements involved in the project’s development and the participation in the government decisions. The participation of Consortium members in national and international debates has been very significant to widely inform about the Consortium experiences and information - based on its research and projects results and local initiatives -aiming to encourage the adoption of public policies at national and international levels towards sustainable development and tropical forest conservation in developing countries. For example, IPAM´s participation as an invited member of the Brazilian Forum on Climate Change, as well as its participation in international and national conferences, has presented its new proposal regarding to compensate reduction of tropical deforestation as a mechanism to address the carbon emissions from tropical deforestation (Brazil is the most important emitter of C from deforestation). Also, IPAM, TNC, ISA and FVPP are promoting the study of feasibility of carbon sequestration by agroforestry projects in the Transamazônica Highway and in the Xingu River Basin, attending the opportunities opened by MDL mechanism to promote small scale carbon sequestration projects. Furthermore, Consortium representatives from IPAM have presented its Biodiversity Scenarios Model to the Ministry of Environment, which might apply it to an 8-million ha forest area along BR163 under federal intervention. Such model can show which priority areas are to be protected by environmental laws and which species would be threatened with the loss of the forest cover in some specific regions. As important as the actions described above are the local and regional initiatives that have demonstrated many possible ways to promote social and environmental sustainable development. IFT and FVPP, for example, has worked together disseminating forest management techniques and practices for logging industry staff, among other stakeholders. Giving tools for the logging industry to change its behavior and collaborating in public policies discussions regarding this economic sector, IFT and FVPP aim to comply with the one of the Consortium first goals regarding the increase of areas supported by sustainable management plan. ISA has focused its activities on the increase of landscapes with regional participatory plan for conservation and sustainable use of natural resources in the Xingu headwaters. Also, it has strengthened grassroots organizations and enabled in the elaboration of projects by themselves as a mean to reach these goals. In this sense, ISA, FVPP, IPAM, Social Movements, GTA and rural and indigenous representatives have promoted events to discuss the BR 163 Sustainable Plan and other issues, increasing the possibility of local communities’ socio-economic and environmental rights being contemplated by public policies to be adopted by the government. In addition, the Consortium activities developed by the leadership of Proteger/GTA are essential in dealing with the involvement of local people and organizations. Proteger/GTA has a significant participation in the Consortium through the dissemination of information; discussions and awareness among small producers from Amazonian rural communities, and by doing so allow their effective participation in public policy debates, in devising and executing projects which deal with life improvement issues, while promoting the environmental conservation. The Consortium has a strong point which is the dialogue continually established with governmental and non-governmental institutions, aiming to spread out and strengthen its projects and activities. Cooperation agreements and dialogues were established in the last semester with Embrapa, Federação das Organizações e Comunidades Tradicionais from Tapajós FLONA (National Forest), the Technical Forest Chamber (IBAMA, RIMISP, IDRC, CE, IMAFLORA, CIRAD, SEBRAE), as well with representatives of other Latin American countries (MAP region).

USAID Climate Change Assistance For the Developing World

Making a Difference in People’s Lives: USAID’s Climate Change Initiative 1998–2002. From 1998 to 2002, the primary vehicle through which the Agency worked to realize positive impacts in the area of climate change was the Climate Change Initiative (CCI). This document summarizes the progress and results of the CCI over its 5-year history. The first section discusses the challenge posed by global climate change and summarizes the current state of knowledge regarding climate change and its likely impact on developing and transition countries. The second section highlights the impact of the CCI and explains its results via sector and country case studies. The final section outlines the future of USAID climate change assistance.

Technical Report - Land-Use and Forestry Carbon Offset Projects

Draft report prepared by Sandra Brown, Winrock Intl. on Land-Use and Forestry Carbon Offset Projects. Presented at the USAID Global Bureau's Center for the Environment, Environment Officers Training Workshop, 1999.

FAO 2003 - State of the World's Forests - Chpt 2

 

Assessment of Conditions for Biodiversity and Fragile Ecosystems Conservation and Management in Peru

The threats to reduced biological diversity are grouped in two categories: policy threats and site specific threats to diverse biologically-rich ecosystems. Divided environmental authority, misconception of the value of conserving biodiversity and forests, inadequate legal norms, lack of participation of the local population in the management of protected areas, unsustainable land and resource use, uncontrolled mining and hydrocarbon exploration in protected areas, uncontrolled tourism expansion, and deforestation all contribute to loss of biological diversity. The most appropriate response to these threats is one that addresses improvements in the management of biological diversity and forests, combined with efforts to generate economic alternatives for local communities living in and around threatened ecosystems. July 1998 Task Order No. 819 Contract No. PCE-I-00-96-00002-00 LAC - 118/119 Report - Peru

Assessment of Conditions for Biodiversity and Fragile Ecosystems Conservation and Management in Peru

By Douglas Pool, Team Leader Douglas Southgate, Environmental Economist Lily Rodriguez, Biologist Alfredo Garcia, Anthropologist Eliana Villar, Gender Specialist July 1998 Task Order No. 819 Contract No. PCE-I-00-96-00002-00 Report For USAID/Peru Region: Latin America and the Caribbean Task order: Peru: Biodiversity & Ecosystem Conservation Assessment. Technical area: Biodiversity Conservation; Transboundary Resource Management Public-Private Partnerships; Policy Assessment, Analysis and Evaluation & Strategic Planning; Land Use Management and Eco-Zoning; Global Climate Change; Forestry; Environmental Institutional Strengthening - NGOs/PVOs; Environmental Institutional Strengthening - Government; Environmental and Economic Growth Linkages; Dissemination of Policy Knowledge/Environmental Communication

Makira Forest Project Madagascar

David Meyers December 18, 2001 MEF – IRG/PAGE – USAID Region: Africa/Centrally Funded Activities Task order: Madagascar Enabling Conditions for Sustainable Policies Technical area: Biodiversity Conservation

Climate Change and Biodiversity

Published in 2002 by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The current rate of biodiversity loss is greater than the natural background rate of extinction. Acritical question for this Technical Paper is how much might climate change (natural or human-induced) enhance or inhibit these losses in biodiversity?

Environmental Policies and Institutions for Central Asia (EPIC) Program Task 4: Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Initiative (GGERI) Final Report and Quarterly Report

Task Order No. 813 Contract No. PCE-I-00-96-00002-00 January–March 2001 Prepared by Vladimir Litvak and David McCauley Prepared for Ken McNamara, USAID/CAR Angela Crooks, USAID/E&E April 2001 Region: Europe and Eurasia Task Order: Central Asia Water and Energy Policy / BNI (CAR) Tech area: Dissemination of Policy Knowledge/Environmental Communication

Uganda Watershed Presentation-Sudi Bumulesewa x2

 

Green Highway Consortium Annual Report, 2004

During this first year of funding, the Green Highways Consortium consolidated and strengthened historical collaborations among member institutions, initiated new collaborations, and faced controversial issues (agribusiness expansion in Amazon , for example). The general strategy adopted by Consortium includes (1) the strengthening of different society groups (social movements; farmers, state and federal government) by providing qualified and scientific information on land use dynamic in Amazon, as a way, (2) helping the local society to find a new approach for “frontier governance” being able to control the social and environmental negative impacts coming from the currently land use activities. Also, the Consortium has to work (3) to promote the expansion of Annual Technical Report (2004): Green Highways Consortium 4 market incentives for good land practices and compliance with ambitious environmental legislation. All the three action lines above are inserted in a national and local political context, which is propitious to debate due to the phenomenal advance made by local society in terms of proposition of regional planning for economic corridors represented by the highways that will be paved (BR-163, for example). In this sense, the most important accomplishment was the remarkable progress made in consolidating a regional planning process for the BR-163 highway—a process that has now been recognized by the Brazilian Government. The BR-163 process provides a participatory, scientifically-grounded framework for advancing large-scale conservation and sustainable development along a 1,700 km corridor rife with land conflicts, land speculation, and the degradation of natural resources. A working group, recognized by the government, was organized by institutions which represent the civil society for setting up a monitoring to check the proposals aiming the territory arrangement through the BR-163 Highway. This participatory monitoring has been reached through activities such as training for smallholders (in fire and fauna management, viability of productive activities, etc), or even for timber companies’ staff as an alternative to reduce costs. All these processes included the production of materials, workshops and events to promote the environmental consciousness among the society groups involved in it. At the same time, the projects developed during the period reported here are improving the communities’ level of organization and their life quality, since it contributes to different economical alternatives with environmental reduced impact. Communities are getting able to sell and certificate their products, while the Consortium is surveying the possibility of compensating environmental services through carbon sequestration. The perspective of analyses and studies on the role of agro-industry companies in Amazon and the necessity to establish a direct dialogue with this sector generated a debate within the Consortium that has yet to be resolved. Are the goals of the Green Highways Consortium best served through partnerships with the very powerful industries that are converting forests to fields at historically high rates? Should the Consortium focus on strengthening the proponents of the socio-environmental movement? Or both? Given the gathering economic force of agro-industry expansion in the Amazon, the answers to these questions are extremely important. The Amazon environmental movement is poorly equipped to address the explosive expansion of cattle ranching and soybean production. But the work of the consortium in the first year has been an important catalyst to a qualitative leap in the discussion of these centrally important issues by the key institutional actors represented in the consortium. At the moment, all consortium members have a much clearer idea of the likely impact of agroindustrial expansion, and are working much more actively on an adequate response - at all levels, from the field to public policy – even though there isn’t a consensus regarding how to deal with it.

2 - Fundamentals of Watershed Planning and Management Tom Dax2