PES & REDD 101 web links

Below are links to a wide range of resources to guide individuals new to the fields of Payment for Ecosystem Services and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation.

Climate Change

Effects of Climate Change, Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,1620995,00.html

Climate Change Impacts: Feeling the Heat, The Nature Conservancy http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/issues/

Technologies, Policies and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change, IPCC http://www.gcrio.org/ipcc/techrepI/index.html

Forests

Forests and Climate Change, FAO Newsroom http://www.fao.org/newsroom/EN/focus/2006/1000247/index.html

Tropical Forests and Climate Change Adaptation http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/trofcca/_ref/home/index.htm

Science Clarified: Forests http://www.scienceclarified.com/Ex-Ga/Forests.html

PES

Getting Started, a Primer
http://www.katoombagroup.org/documents/publications/GettingStarted.pdf

Negotiating for Nature’s Services
http://www.katoombagroup.org/documents/publications/NegotiatingforNature.pdf

Sven Wunder:  What are Payments for Environmental Services (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNGPF1CdK-4

Our Changing Planet: Ecosystem Services (video)
http://www.umac.org/ocp/videos/ecosystemServices.html

A Gateway to PES
http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/a_gateway_to_pes_d_huberman.pdf

Making Sense of the Voluntary Carbon Market: A Comparison of Carbon Offset Standards, WWF
http://assets.panda.org/downloads/vcm_report_final.pdf

REDD

REDD in the Real World (video)
http://www.whrc.org/Policy/REDD/redd_film.htm

REDD: A New Animal in the Forest (video)
http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/12/04/two-films-on-redd-in-indonesia-by-lifemosaic/

The Little REDD Book
http://www.globalcanopy.org/main.php?m=117&sm=176&t=1

Websites

Ecosystem Marketplace
http://ecosystemmarketplace.com/

Forest Carbon Portal
http://www.forestcarbonportal.com/

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
http://www.ipcc.ch/