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Christina MacFarquhar 20 Feb 2012
UNEP FI, the Global Canopy Program (GCP) and The Center for Sustainability Studies of the Business Administration School of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) will be holding a one-hour webinar on 6 and 7 March to explain the nuts and bolts of the Natural Capital Declaration.
The Natural Capital Declaration (or NCD) is a CEO-level statement by the financial sector demonstrating its...
Charlie Parker 12 Dec 2011
The seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP 17) of the UN Climate Change Conference held over the last two weeks in Durban marks a turning point in the almost 20-year history of the Climate Change Convention. Next year, in December 2012, the Kyoto Protocol – currently the only legally binding agreement under the Convention – will expire, and without a successor there is little...
Christina MacFarquhar 24 Nov 2011
Oxford, UK - Today, as new Climate Bonds Standards are released in London, and four days before stalled UN climate talks resume in Durban, South Africa, The Global Canopy Programme (GCP) has released Understanding Forest Bonds, a practical guide to using forest bonds to raise large-scale, up-front finance for tropical forests.
Forest conservation is vital in the fight against climate change...
Mandar Trivedi 17 Nov 2011
The Guyana-based Community Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) project held its first workshop on 2-3 November. Each of the 16 communities from across the North Rupununi region was represented by its village chief and two monitoring trainees. Leading from GCP were Mandar Trivedi and Ben Palmer Fry.
The main aim of the workshop was to determine what communities want to monitor in...
21 Jun 2011
To the casual observer passing through the halls of the Hotel Maritim in Bonn last week, it would not have been immediately apparent that the 3,000 or so delegates gathered there were negotiating an historic and monumental deal on climate change. After a week of agenda delays and politicking, Parties began to show some signs of progress on the crucial issue of reducing emissions from...
Charlie Parker 20 Jun 2011
The Global Canopy Programme and Forum on Readiness for REDD are pleased to announce the launch of the new REDD Countries Database on the REDD Desk
www.theREDDdesk.org/countries
The REDD Countries Database is a centralised and collaborative database of the diverse and rapidly evolving range of ongoing REDD activities in tropical forest owning nations....
Charlie Parker 24 Jan 2011
LANDMARK DECISION ON FORESTS REACHED IN CANCUN
The decision may have been a long time coming and it is far from perfect, but forest watchers have reason to rejoice following a historic decision on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) in Cancun. Whilst expectations were low in the run up to the sixteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 16) to the United Nations...
Andrew Mitchell 20 Dec 2010
The Global Canopy Programme’s (GCP) team recently returned from the UN Climate Meeting in Cancun, Mexico, and wanted to give you a sense of what happened. Crucially for forests, a decision has been reached on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) under the Conference of the Parties (COP), transforming REDD from a discussion point into a global mitigation...
Matthew Cranford Becca Madsen* 27 Oct 2010
As a first step in answering where the precarious state of biological diversity stands, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) Secretariat released its pilot Global Monitoring Report just before the COP-10 kicked off last week. The report attempts to evaluate the state of biodiversity finance. But it does not make any estimate of the total financial cost of...
21 Oct 2010
As delegates meet in Nagoya to discuss ways of getting money and expertise flowing under the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), one of the key areas that they will need to make progress on is how to harness different sources of finance that are available for biodiversity and ecosystem services. The issue of financing biodiversity began in earnest today on the second day of the 10th...