At the global, regional, and local levels, PES law and policy is evolving rapidly, creating a moving target for understanding these complex issues. The Resources Portal makes current information on PES law, policy, and contracts available in one place, by collecting and linking to relevant resources. The publications are listed in reverse chronological order. This page is updated regularly as new materials become available.
An Analytical Tool for Assessing Legal and Institutional Readiness for PES
Slayde Hawkins - Forest Trends/Katoomba Incubator - December 2011
This booklet has been created as an initial resource for public sector officials interested in fostering an environment in which PES transactions can occur. While PES legal and policy readiness is likely to look very different from one country to another—depending on legal frameworks, as well as...
Nested Approaches to Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation
Slayde Hawkins - Forest Trends/Katoomba Incubator - October 2011
This brief summarizes key reasons for taking a nested approach to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon (REDD+) and describes issues and options for policymakers....
The Legal Framework and the Role of Community Resource Management Areas (CREMAs)
Yinka Agidee - The Rock and Partners - September 2011
This report provides insight into Ghanaian statutory and case law and its potential implications for REDD+. As the legal nature of carbon rights has yet to be determined, the report does not purport to conclusively describe the proper treatment of carbon rights and benefits under existing law, but...
This presentation outlines major issues for PES contracting, including the type of agreement used (purchase vs. services), finding the right level of formality and complexity, key contractual elements, negotiating PES agreements, and special considerations for PES contracting. The presentation is...
Jacob Olander, Joerg Seifert-Granzin, Thiago Chagas, Charlotte Streck, Robert O'Sullivan - Forest Trends - March 2011
Interest in "nested" approaches to REDD+ has grown steadily as policy makers, practitioners and investors seek to reconcile approaches to reducing, and rewarding, emissions reductions at different scales - national, subnational and project. The 16th session of the Conference of the Parties
Slayde Hawkins, Michelle Nowlin, Daniel Ribeiro, Ryan Stoa, Ryke Longest, Jim Salzman - Forest Trends, Duke Environmental Law & Policy Clinic - December 2010
Forest carbon payments – payments for restoring or planting forest, or for preventing forest degradation or deforestation – can help to prevent and reverse forest loss. However, forest carbon transactions today raise many challenging issues for participants, including difficult legal questions....
Slayde Hawkins, Phuc Xuan To, Pham Xuan Phuong, Pham Thu Thuy, Nguyen Duc Tu, Chu Van Guong, Sharon Brown, Peter Dart, Suzanne Robertson, Nguyen Vu, Richard McNally - Forest Trends, Ministry of Argiculture and Rural Development, Charles Darwin University, BirdLife International, GTZ - December 2010
Forest Trends and the Katoomba Group have commissioned this study into the legal and regulatory frameworks for mangrove management and PES in Vietnam. This study is timely as in recent years various Vietnamese policies have prioritized terrestrial forest, mangrove, and coastal conservation, and the...
Dependent Documents Associated with this Publication
Slayde Hawkins, To Xuan Phuc, Pham Xuan Phuang, Pham Thu Thuy, Nguyen Tuc Tu, Chu Van Cuong, Sharon Brown, Peter Dart, Suzanne Robertson, Nguyen Vu, Richard McNally - Forest Trends, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Charles Darwin University, BirdLife International, GTZ - August 2011
A Tool for Prioritizing Sub-National REDD+ Activities - Case Studies from Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda
Michael Richards - Forest Trends - June 2010
This report describes the REDD+ Opportunities Scoping Exercise (ROSE) methodology, and summarises the experience of developing and using it in three case study countries Tanzania, Uganda and Ghana. ROSE is a tool for classifying and prioritizing potential REDD+ sub-national activities, and for...
Dependent Documents Associated with this Publication
Structuring effective and transparent incentive mechanisms for REDD+ implementation at multiple scales
Rane Cortez, Rick Saines, Bronson Griscom, Marisa Martin, Daniel De Deo, Greg Fishbein, John Kerkering, Duncan Marsh - The Nature Conservancy, Baker & McKenzie, LLP - June 2010
In order for REDD+ to be successful, incentives will need to reach the actors responsible for addressing the drivers of deforestation and for shifting land use to a more sustainable and lowcarbonmodel. These actors span multiple scales, from international commodity buyers to national governments
David Takacs - Conservation International - November 2009
Investments in reforestation and reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) have the potential to mitigate greenhouse gas accumulation; sustain ecosystem services that support human and ecological communities; and generate sustainable livelihoods for poor, forest-dependent
Paul Curnow, Glenn Hodes - Baker & McKenzie, UNEP Risoe Center - August 2009
This Guidebook addresses a wide range of legal and regulatory issues arising from the domestic laws, regulations and policies of CDM Host Countries that can affect the development and implementation of CDM projects. Host Country domestic laws interact – both negatively and positively – with the...
- Terrestrial Carbon Group Project, UN-REDD - May 2009
This report provides an overview of the activities that a selection of developed and developing countries are taking to develop policy and legislative frameworks to enable REDD activities to take place. From a developed country perspective, support for REDD comes through first, the
John Costenbader ed. - IUCN Environmental Law Centre - 2009
This publication identifies and analyzes critical issues in the formulation and implementation of national and sub-national legal frameworks for REDD activities. It is based on substantive findings from four national case studies (Brazil, Cameroon, Guyana and Papua New Guinea) chosen for their...
Thomas Greiber - IUCN Environmental Law Centre - 2009
Analysis and engagement with partners working on ecosystem services transactions, policies and laws over the past 10 years have demonstrated a clear need to better understand the legal and institutional frameworks that have the potential to promote or hinder the development of payments for...
Thomas Greiber ed. - IUCN Environmental Law Centre - 2009
El análisis y la interacción con socios involucrados en transacciones relacionadas con servicios ambientales y políticas y leyes conexas en los últimos 10 años, han evidenciado una clara necesidad de comprender mejor los marcos jurídicos e institucionales que tienen el potencial de favorecer o...
A guide to governmental and non-governmental proposals for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation
Charlie Parker, Andrew Mitchell, Mandar Trivedi, Niki Mardas - Global Canopy Programme - December 2008
The Little REDD Book draws upon work undertaken by The Prince�s Rainforests Project to analyse thirty-three governmental and non-governmental proposals submitted to the UNFCCC.
The aim of the Little REDD Book is to help forest stakeholders to understand and compare current and
An examination of the issues facing the incorporation of REDD into market-based climate policies
Erin C. Myers - Resources for the Future - December 2007
Deforestation and forest degradation account for 20 percent of annual total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The vast majority of these forestry emissions come from deforestation in developing countries. Currently, there is significant dialogue at the international level about how to integrate...
- Unep Ris� Centre on Energy, Climate and Sustainable Development - June 2004
This Guidebook has been drafted to assist developing country stakeholders to understand some of the key legal issues and risks involved in developing a CDM Project and selling CERs. There are obviously a broad range of developing countries and while some countries may have limited or no experience...
Increasing awareness of the need for action on global warming has produced a search for ways to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and to sequester carbon to offset such emissions. At the present time, nations around the globe are hotly debating whether to put into force the Kyoto Protocol. To...
