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GCP Blog 16 Oct 2012
The Global Canopy Programme's new Little Forest Finance Book (download here) was launched today at UN biodiversity conference in Hyderabad, India.
It describes a range of catalysts that can be applied now by public and private sector decision makers in order to rapidly raise the USD billions needed to save the world’s disappearing tropical forests.
The launch comes as governments...
27 Sep 2012
Photographer Ken Goff has kindly allowed us to publish his photo of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge high up in the trees in Sabah, Borneo, during their visit to the Danum Valley Research Centre in September this year.
Kalsum Mohd Yusah, who briefed the couple in the canopy (standing on a branch 50 metres up), was trained through the Global Canopy Programme/Darwin Project, as were several of...
Andrew Mitchell 16 Jul 2012
Anyone reading the newspapers might be forgiven for not noticing the significance of the Rio+20 Earth Summit. Some of the media responses reflected the general mood of disinterest and disappointment, and on the day I returned from Rio, the environment correspondent of the Financial Times could merely muster a report on traffic jams in Rio. I despair! In fact there were a number of significant...
21 Jun 2012
I met an old acquaintance on Monday night at one of the drinks receptions on the sidelines of the Rio+20 conference. Soren Hvalkof is a Danish anthropologist who has devoted his career to working with indigenous communities in Amazonia. Apart from when he was retelling stories about raising his children in the rainforest, he was most animated when discussing his work on the Monitoring Matters...
12 Jun 2012
Carbon Disclosure Project and Forest Footprint Disclosure Project merge to create world’s largest natural capital disclosure system covering carbon, water and forests
London, June 12th 2012: The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and Global Canopy Programme (GCP) today announced an alliance that will see GCP’s Forest Footprint Disclosure Project (FFD) merge with CDP over the...
30 May 2012
One of the biggest outcomes of last year’s 17th Conference of Parties (COP) was the adoption of the Durban Platform (Decision 1/CP.17), which sets 2020 to be the year for a new climate treaty coming into effect . REDD+ will have to be fully included in such a new treaty. However, the question remains – what happens until then?
It’s clear from the attitude of the Subsidiary...
25 May 2012
The GCP is working with partners in Guyana to build capacity for community monitoring to be linked to national monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV).
At the end of April, we teamed up with our partners, the North Rupununi District Development Board (NRDDB) and the Iwokrama International Centre for another community training workshop.
The project is training two monitors (called CREW...
Matt Leggett 24 May 2012
Progress at the Bonn UNFCCC Climate Conference has been frustratingly slow. One of the key goals for the conference was to lay the foundations for scaling up the finance needed for REDD+, and to secure short term additional finance commitments to support this transition in advance of COP18 in Doha.
However, as the conference draws to a close, Parties are still struggling to agree on whether...
03 May 2012
From the Natural Capital Declaration website:
Support grows for finance initiative in run-up to Rio+20.
3 May 2012: The CEOs of Standard Chartered (UK), Nedbank (South Africa) and the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, have signed the Natural Capital Declaration [see note 1], bringing the number of endorsers to 20.
The new endorsers join the CEOs of...
Christina MacFarquhar 30 Apr 2012
Nick Oakes, Environmental Economist with GCP, will be speaking on a panel on "Innovative financing mechanisms to drive large-scale public-private investments" at the 3rd annual Forestry, Biomass & Sustainability conference held by Environmental Finance in London on 3 & 4 May.
For more information and the full programme, please visit the Environmental Finance webpage...