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Climate Resilient Participatory Afforestation and Reforestation Project

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World Bank Group
The objective of the Climate Resilient Participatory Afforestation and Reforestation Project for Bangladesh is to reduce forest degradation and increase forest coverage through participatory planning and monitoring and to contribute in building the long-term resilience of selected communities in coastal and hilly areas to climate change.
July 2017

Payments for Ecosystem Services in Costa Rica

Donor Committee for Enterprise Development (DCED)
The case study Payments for Ecosystem Services in Costa Rica analyses the strong policy framework around reforestation, forest management and forest protection that Costa Rica started building in the early 80s.
July 2014

Payment for Ecosystem Services in Costa Rica

Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI), Green Growth Best Practice (GGBP)

Costa Rica developed a payment for ecosystem services system to support its policies for sustainable forestry and reforestation.

April 2020

Tech for Trees

Central University of Finance and Economics
Tech for Trees is based on data developed by Prof. Bo Chen of the Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing as part of a collaboration with the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) and the Green Digital Finance Alliance (GDFA).
June 2014

An economic valuation of sustainable land management through agroforestry in eastern Sudan - Assessing the socio-economic and environmental dimensions of land degradation

Economics of Land Degradation (ELD)

Gedaref State was previously known as the food basket of Sudan. Over several decades unsustainable agricultural practices that combined near-monocropping with low nutrient replenishment have led to significant degradation of soils, which are no longer able to sustain farmer livelihoods.

August 2018

The Employment Impact of Climate Change Adaptation

International Labour Organization (ILO)
This report was prepared by the International Labour Organization (ILO) for the G20 Climate Sustainability Working Group (CSWG) under the Argentina G20 Presidency in 2018. Its shows that adaptation measures to climate change, such as investment in adaptation infrastructure can create jobs and protect workers and income. Social protection, entreprise development and skills policy are necessary to maximise the positive effect of the transition to a climate resilient economy.
March 2017

Managing Coastal Ecosystems in the Philippines: What Cash for Work Programmes Can Contribute

German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE)
Managing Coastal Ecosystems in the Philippines: What Cash for Work Programmes Can Contribute compares three incentive schemes that may induce resource users to protect or rehabilitate coastal resources: Payments for Ecosystem Services, Environmental Conditional Cash Transfers and Cash for Work.
May 2020

Unlocking Nature's Potential

Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP)
This policy brief looks at the actions taken by companies on Nature-based Solutions (NbS). It describes the increasing importance of NbS in the main international regimes related to climate and biodiversity, presents cases of NbS being implemented and supported by companies, and provides a set of recommendations for policymakers to strengthen the private sector’s engagement with NbS.
November 2017

The Emissions Gap Report 2017

United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment)
The UN Environment Emissions Gap Report 2017 presents an assessment of current national mitigation efforts and the ambitions countries have presented in their Nationally Determined Contributions, which form the foundation of the Paris Agreement.
June 2014

An economic valuation of agroforestry and land restoration in the Kelka forest in Mali

Economics of Land Degradation (ELD)

The Kelka forest in the Mopti region of Mali is important for the provision of ecosystem services like carbon sequestration and maintenance of the hydrological cycle. The Kelka forest area occupies more than 300, 000 hectares with 15 villages within and around its boundaries.

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