By Maria Kahale
This report highlights key strategies – led by reduced global beef consumption, reduced food waste, and better farm nutrient management and production – that can deliver big climate wins while maintaining food security and building resilience.
By Maria Kahale
This paper tells the story of how “strange bedfellows” – an emerging group of indigenous, NGO, corporate and government leaders – are transforming the trillion-dollar global agricultural commodity business to protect forests, benefit local communities, and slow global warming.
By Maria Kahale
As of early 2015, nearly $9 billion in public finance has been pledged for REDD+. This study examines the impacts of this significant level of finance for forests and draws lessons for future support. The study is based on a series of in-depth country case studies, in addition to a global literature analysis.
By Maria Kahale
Challenges and Opportunities for Conservation, Agricultural Production, and Social Inclusion in the Cerrado Biome defines a set of interventions that could contribute to the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services, social inclusion and support for traditional livelihoods, as well as regional growth in agricultural production in the Cerrado.
By Maria Kahale
Onsite visits have the potential to be a powerful tool for knowledge sharing, capacity building, network formation, and policy promotion. Such exchanges, site visits, study tours, and exposure visits have been widely used by development organizations, NGOs, and advocacy groups. This analysis suggests best practice and recommended steps to maximize the impact of onsite visits.
By Maria Kahale
The goals of the Paris Agreement cannot be met without significant carbon removals. Global carbon models that avoid dangerous climate change by 2100 not only assume a drastic decline of fossil fuel use, but also significant removals of GHGs.
By Maria Kahale
Paris Agreement goals cannot be met without a large contribution from forests and progress will be difficult to assess (the Global Stocktake) without understanding why national estimates of forest fluxes differ from those in independent studies this report takes a first step in trying to explain the difference.
By Maria Kahale
This policy brief provides information on how forests are included in GHG inventories, NDCs and REDD+ reference levels, why their scope may differ, and other issues around “accounting” for forest-related mitigation performance.
By Maria Kahale
This report seeks to clarify which forest-related emissions and removals are (and are not) included in national GHG inventories submitted to the UNFCCC and to identify and explain divergences with independent studies, including those summarized in IPCC Assessment Reports.
By Maria Kahale
This report explains why forest mitigation should be considered on par with emission reductions from other sectors such as fossil fuels, refuting the notion—often expressed—that forest mitigation is not permanent.
