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Volume
21 – November - December 2012
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CBD
COP 11, Hyderabad, India
 The
eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on
Biological Diversity met from 8 – 19 October 2012. At this meeting,
Parties adopted decision XI/19 on advice on the application of relevant
safeguards for biodiversity with regard to policy approaches and
positive incentives on issues relating to reducing emissions from
deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation,
sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon
stocks in developing countries. See the advance
unedited copy of COP-11
decisions.
UN-REDD
Launches New Policy Brief on Multiple Benefits of REDD+
Avoiding significant risks and securing additional benefits from REDD+
could be the key to the overall success of the mechanism. The UN-REDD
Programme Policy Brief entitled
"REDD+ Beyond Carbon: Supporting Decisions on Safeguards and Multiple
Benefits", elaborates on the use
of tools and data to support decisions on this topic, and presents
examples from implementation in REDD+ countries.
REDD+
SES Version 2 now available
 REDD+
Social and Environmental
Standards Version 2 is now available in English, Spanish, French,
Portuguese and soon in Nepalese and Bahasa Indonesia at http://www.redd-standards.org/.
REDD+ SES provides a mechanism for country-led, multi-stakeholder
assessment to show how safeguards are being addressed and respected by
a government-led REDD+ program throughout implementation.
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REDD+
Resource Digest
The REDD+ Resource Digest is a free, weekly email round-up of
international REDD+ news and information. This digest is compiled as a
service to REDD+ practitioners around the globe and represents a wide
range of varying perspectives. Subscribe
now.
CANOPY
e-newsletter
CANOPY, a quarterly e-newsletter from
WWF's global Forest and Climate Initiative, keeps you up to date on
REDD+ news and information. Subscribe
now
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"Sharing the Benefits of REDD+: Lessons from the Field"
A new report
by The Nature Conservancy "Sharing the Benefits of REDD+: Lessons from
the Field," (funded by Government of Norway) includes case studies of
ten
natural resource management and benefit sharing programs, identifies
five factors for successful program design, and examines how actors’
interests can be aligned — landholders, private firms and state and
federal governments — to achieve forest-friendly development.
“The Biodiversity Bargain”
An article co-authored by Achim
Steiner and Braulio Dias about Biodiversity and REDD+ is available here
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How
can you publish in this Newsletter?
Your
contributions to
this Newsletter on issues related to biodiversity
aspects of REDD-plus are welcome. Please send your submission to
redd@cbd.int.
Articles should contain no more than 60 words, and must
contain a hyperlink for more information. Deadline to submit
articles for the next issue: 10 January
2013.
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The
aim of this e-Newsletter
is to inform CBD National Focal Points and CBD partners about
biodiversity aspects in relation to reducing emissions from
deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation,
sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon
stocks in developing countries (REDD+).
To subscribe, please visit http://www.cbd.int/forest/redd/newsletters/.
This
newsletter is published pursuant to CBD decision IX/5. The views
expressed in this publication do not necessarily reflect the views of
the Secretariat of the CBD.
Photo credits (from top to bottom): CBD, CIFOR, CIFOR, and localsurfer
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