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Executive summary: The 2014 Indonesia Forest Governance Index
The 2014 Indonesian Forest Governance Index (FGI) is the second report of its kind, with the first report providing baseline data in 2013. The follow-up work after the first report has resulted in actual changes in practice through informed policy-making and prioritized action towards improvements, such as revision of regulations, increased allocation of forest resources to local communities....
Financing emission reductions in the Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector

To ensure economic expansion while also contributing to global efforts to combat climate change, many developing countries are adopting Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) among other initiatives. Because the agriculture, forestry and land use (AFOLU) sectors are key economic...

The role of the legal framework in ensuring REDD+ activities are consistent with the UNFCCC REDD+ safeguards: Country experiences implementing a Country Safeguard Approach
The Warsaw Framework for REDD+ consolidates the requirements that must be met in order to receive results-based payments, however these requirements are somewhat broad in the interests of flexibility and preserving national sovereignty. This is particularly true in the case of the REDD+ safeguards, which must be “addressed and respected”. The question is how best to do this? In order to ensure...
2015 Global Climate legislation Study: Legislation in 99 Countries Summary for Policy-makers

The 2015 Global Climate Legislation Study, covering 98 countries plus the European Union which are together responsible for 93 per cent of global emissions, will be presented to delegates tomorrow (2 June) in Bonn, Germany, where the latest round of United Nations climate change...

Options for the Paris agreement under the Durban Platform process: Results of a 2015 online questionnaire survey

The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) held in Durban, South Africa, in November–December 2011 reached a decision known as the Durban Platform. It launched “a new process to develop a protocol, another legal...

A New Global Agreement Can Catalyze Climate Action in Latin America

This paper aims to better understand the link between Latin American countries’ proposed climate actions before 2020 and their post-2020 targets under a Paris agreement. We look at why Latin American climate policies and pledges merit attention, and review how Latin American nations...

La Voz de las Montañas
Esta publicación reconoce la importancia de las montañas para el desarrollo sostenible, así como su vulnerabilidad a los efectos adversos del cambio climático, la deforestación, el cambio de uso de suelo y los desastres. A través de sus páginas, el Ministerio del Ambiente y un...
Sustainable Development: Stories from Those Making it Possible
The year 2015 marks an important date in the global agenda setting for the future of sustainable development. The Rio+20 Summit in 2012 resolved to ending extreme poverty and hunger as well as achieving sustainable development as a matter of urgency. The summit’s final outcome document, “The Future We Want”, called for new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and led to the launch of an...
The Role of the 2015 Agreement in Enhancing Adaptation to Climate Change
Adaptation responses are needed to address the existing levels of climate variability and to prepare for future climate impacts. There is wide agreement that adaptation is an important issue and would benefit from being enhanced through more effective action and better planning. The prominence of adaptation in the UNFCCC negotiations has increased, in part as the scientific evidence has become...
Enhancing mitigation ambitions in the major emitting countries: analysis of current and potential climate policies
This study provides an overview of projected greenhouse gas emissions in seven major emitting countries (Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, and the United States) up to 2030, resulting from current, planned and selected enhanced mitigation policies. The emission projection associated with the enhanced mitigation policies shows that by replicating ‘best-in-class’ policies or...

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