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deforestation
Trade and climate change
Submitted by Yury Zhukov on Tue, 2011-11-22 10:34Year:
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This report is the outcome of collaborative research between the World Trade Organization Secretariat and UNEP. It reviews how trade and climate change policies interact and how they can be mutually supportive. The aim is to promote greater understanding of this interaction and to assist policy-makers in this complex policy area.
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The winds of change: climate change, poverty and the environment in Malawi
Submitted by Yury Zhukov on Tue, 2011-11-22 10:14
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This report is part of a series commissioned by Oxfam national country programmes to explore and highlight the links between climate change and poverty, and between climate change adaptation and development. At a community level, poor communities are worst affected by, and least able to cope, with climate change impacts. The report recommends that the foundation of any initiative to address climate change hinges on communities being aware of the issues, owning the process of adaptation and having the capacity to undertake and maintain adaptation.
Integrated Land Use Management to Combat Land Degradation and Deforestation in Madhya Pradesh
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Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
Ministry of Environment and Forests, State Government of Madhya PradeshSummary:
Integrated Land Use Management to Combat Land Degradation and Deforestation in Madhya Pradesh
The project objective is to promote community-driven sustainable land and ecosystem management at the landscape level through integration of watershed management, joint forest management, and sustainable livelihoods development so as to balance ecological and livelihood needs.
Project Components:
- 1. Creation of an enabling environment for SLEM in Madhya Pradesh
- 2. Demonstration and up-scaling of innovative approaches for sustainable land and ecosystem management
- 3. Developing adaptive capacity
- 4. Project management
Expected Outputs:
1.1 Review of legislative and regulatory framework for SLEM in Madhya Pradesh and addressing of policy gaps related to land, forest and ecosystem management in the face of climate change
1.2. Training on forest governance, natural resource management and good practices in win-win options for livelihood generation and biodiversity conservation (target: 2000 Joint Forest Management Committees (JFMC) and 100 members trained as trainers in the four project sites)
2.1 Sustainable watershed management in 3,000 ha of forest with high conservation values and non-forest land (in roughly 1:2 ratio) in the four project districts
2.2 Approximately 14,500 ha of degraded bamboo forests rehabilitated in the four project districts
2.3 Incentives for forest fringe villages in the four project districts to conserve bamboo forest identified
2.4 Development of small and medium sized enterprise in 100 forest village communities (e.g. on Non-Timber Forest Products)
2.5 Increased production from rain fed agriculture and improved livestock management practices in 30 villages
2.6 Good SLEM practices documented and fed into SLEM Coordination and Management Mechanism established at national level
3.1 SLEM approaches promoted by the project integrate additional measures to ensure that practices are resilient to extreme weather events and climate change, such as adjustment and timing of farming operations, integration of water harvesting practices into SLEM packages, and promotion of more drought tolerant crop and livestock breeds
3.2 Capacity building of local communities in adaptive management in the face of climate variability and change
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Under Implementation (as of 6 February 2012)
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Pacific Island Region
Submitted by andrea on Fri, 2010-01-08 08:47Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
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Adaptation to Climate
Change in the Pacific
Island Region is a programme designed to strengthen the capacities of Pacific member countries and regional organizations, to adapt to, and mitigate climate change. The project will more particularly work on developing and subsequently implementing national adaptation strategies and integrating climate change issues into existing land use strategies and policies in Tonga and Vanuatu and Fiji. It also assists SPC-LRD in integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation concerns in SPC-LRD strategic approaches and advisory services.
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The overall objective of the programme is that:
“The capacities of the SPC member countries to cope with the adverse effects of climate change and to avoid deforestation are strengthened, with sustainable management of land based natural resources as a fundamental element”
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The following outcomes are expected:
- The sector programmes and working teams of SPC Land Resources Division systematically integrate climate change adaptation and mitigation concerns into its strategic approach and advisory services
Verification: LRD Strategy, advisory service offer, documentation of mainstreaming process
- At least 3 member countries access and utilize the new services and knowledge provided by SPC-LRD as a regional knowledge hub to develop and subsequently implement (at least 1 member country) efficient and effective national adaptation strategies
Verification: strategy documents in member countries, survey, documentation of pilot projects
- Existing strategies, planning documents and related processes on land use planning in Tonga and Vanuatu integrate climate change issues, with gender aspects taken into consideration, and the subsequent first steps in implementing these land use plans are carried out
Verification: Land use plans, reports on implementation of LUP, gender analysis of LUP
- Fiji signs at least one contract using international carbon market instruments on certificates for avoided deforestation
Verification: contract document (voluntary market, CDM, international fund)
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Project Contacts
Dr Hermann Fickinger
Chief Adviser / Team Leader
Email: Hermann.Fickinger@gtz.de
Tel: +679-3305 983
Fax: +679-3315 446
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Aleki Sasifa
Email: alekiS@spc.int
Climate Frontline Africa
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Climate Frontline - African Communities Adapting to Survive is a joint initiative between five international NGOs to document how climate change is affecting lives throughout Africa and how communities are adapting to it.
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Zambezi Valley Market-Led Smallholder Development
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National Directorate for the Promotion of Rural Develpoment (DNPDR) of the Ministry of Planning and Development (MPD)Implementing Agency and Partnering Organizations:
National Directorate for the Promotion of Rural Develpoment (DNPDR) of the Ministry of Planning and Development (MPD)Summary:
The overall project goal of the market-oriented smallholder development project (IDA) is to accelerate agricultural growth and poverty reduction within the Central Region of Mozambique in line with PARPA priorities. The immediate project development objective is to increase the income of smallholder farmers in selected districts by empowering producers and building their organizations, increasing on- and off-farm production and productivity and facilitating access to markets.
Project Components:
The project has four components:
(1) Community Group Organization and Local Institutional Strengthening;
(2) Agricultural Production and Marketing Development;
(3) Community Agricultural and Environmental Investment Fund;
(4) Project Management, Coordination and Monitoring and Evaluation.
Expected Outputs:
The project goal is to accelerate poverty reduction within the Central Region of Mozambique. The project development objectives are to increase the income of selected districts through broad-based and environmentally sustainable agricultural growth. The global environment objective is to:
(a) prevent land degradation and rehabilitate degraded land to harness local ecosystem services and global environmental benefits.
(b) identify land and natural resource management strategies to overcome vulnerability of local communities to predicted climate variability and climate change in the Central Zambezi Valley.
Contacts:
Christophe Crepin
Telephone: 202-473-9727
Email: ccrepin@worldbank.orgProject Status:
completedPrimary Beneficiaries:
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