LEDS in Practice: Boost ecosystem resilience
This publication gives an overview of the benefits of low emission development strategies (LEDS) for ecosystem resilience.
Plant your Future
Plant your Future is a pioneering and innovative, not-for-profit charity working at the grassroots level in Peru with poor farmers in the Amazon basin.
Three tools to unlock finance for land-use mitigation and adaptation
Governments and their partners can use these tools to identify efficient and effective land use mitigation and adaptation strategies and financial instruments, and encourage policy coordination.
An Overview of REDD and its history
Do you find REDD confusing, opaque, and obtuse? Do you wonder where it came from, and how it impacts indigenous people? Find out here.
Adaptation in the Congo Basin
In the face of climate change, two main types of strategies — mitigation and adaptation — have emerged and are now widely recognized. Mitigation aims to reduce the sources or...
The Congo Basin Forests: a solution for both adaptation and mitigation
This articles describes solutions for both adaptation and mitigation in the Congo Basin Forests.
Local hopes and worries about REDD+ projects
A family collects Brazil nuts from their forest. Kristen Evans/CIFOR
Local forest communities in the REDD+ project sites of CIFOR’s Global Comparative Study...
Parabolic Community Solar Cookers
A field demonstration and training
IntroductionWOTR is a not-for-profit NGO founded in 1993 operating currently in five 5 Indian states - Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh...
Integrating Adaptation in REDD+ Projects – Potential Impacts and Social Return on Investment (SROI) in Sogod, Southern Leyte
Village school in Sogod. Photo by Lito Abrogar
Integrating adaptation measures for people and ecosystems in REDD+ projects can render them more sustainable, ensure...
Integrating Adaptation in REDD+ Projects – Potential Impacts and Social Return on Investment (SROI) in Malinau Indonesia
Women in Malinau. Photo by Eko Prianto/CIFOR
Integrating adaptation measures for people and ecosystems in REDD+ projects can render them more sustainable, ensure the...
Vulnerability, forest-related sectors and climate change adaptation: The case of Cameroon
In Cameroon and elsewhere in the Congo Basin, the majority of rural households and a large proportion of urban households depend on plant and animal products from the forests to meet their...
Cameroon TNS Baseline- Background
This report is part of the baseline assessment conducted under the “Climate Change and Forests in the Congo Basin: Synergies between Adaptation and Mitigation (COBAM)” project. This project aims...
Cameroon TNS Baseline- Dynamic Vulnerability
Vulnerability is a dynamic process, changing on a variety of inter-linked temporal and spatial scales. On the one hand, It is bounded by processes of change that can be slow or abrupt and...
Cameroon TNS Baseline- Synthesis of Key Insights
The baseline assessment shed light on the current vulnerability of villages in the project site, which is essential for the evaluation of future vulnerability and possible adaptation strategies...
Linking Adaptation and Mitigation
This project focuses on the linkages between mitigation and adaptation in community forestry contexts. In keeping with the IPCC, we argue that neither mitigation nor adaptation measures...
Linking Adaptation and Mitigation
Ban Huay Win, Nan Province, Thailand
This research aims to address the potential linkages between mitigation and adaptation in community forestry contexts. This case...
Technical Working Group on Forestry and Environment
TWG F&E address issues of REDD and finance of climate change mitigation in the forest sector.
REDD+ 101
REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) is based on a simple idea: pay developing countries to reduce CO2 emissions from the forest sector.
The...
ROBIN
Tropical forests provide us with foods, fibres and medicines, they filter water and control its flow. They also 'soak up' carbon dioxide from the air, mitigating climate change. The REDD+...
Forests and synergies between adaptation and mitigation
Mitigation and adaptation are the two strategies for addressing climate change. Mitigation is an intervention to reduce the emissions sources or enhance the...
Forests and Climate Change Toolbox
The Forests and Climate Change Toolbox has been developed by CIFOR and the World Agroforestry Centre to build understanding and technical proficiency on issues of climate change and forests...
Forests and Climate Change
Exploring the role of forests for the adaptation of people to climate change.
Bolivia Climate screening
We were requested by the Sida helpdesk at the University of Gothenburg to prepare a background paper (10-15 pages long) for participants in a Sida meeting in La Paz in...
