IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature

arborvitae Issue 41 - Forest finance

 Forest finance

• Livelihoods and landscapes: So far, the expectations of PES as a market-based solution for conservation and development have not been met.
• Feature: Do public goods always have to remain public?
• REDD: We cannot wait to act on REDD-plus.
• Local forests: Why, despite their global significance, has so little external investment flowed to local forest enterprises – especially in the South?

17 Jun 2010 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 40

Forest and Climate Change

• Negotiations: The US is in ‘catch-up mode’, having effectively been out of the negotiations during the Bush administration.
• Feature: ...the only real fact is that if we don’t act now for a change in the trends of GHG emissions, we are condemning the world to costly and unavoidable consequences.
• Perspective: The distributional game is the most serious hurdle for progress.
• Interview: This was the moment when REDD transformed from a theoretical discussion to a real possibility.

09 Oct 2009 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 39

Forest partnerships

• Amazon: For many of the companies involved, it is the image of partnering with communities that is more important than the product itself.
• Innovation: Partnerships between scientists and practitioners are not working well.
• Forests Dialogue: I’m convinced that partnerships can achieve much by ‘engaging the radical middle’.
• Interview: We haven’t tapped into the real potential of partnerships for forests yet.

30 Apr 2009 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 38

Forests and conflict

• Goma: If we don’t do anything and wait until the war is over, there won’t be any more forests and animals to conserve.
• Sudan: Refugees need many natural resources to help them reconstruct a life, albeit a temporary one, in their hosting area.
• Feature: High levels of violence in forested areas are no coincidence. They don’t call it ‘jungle warfare’ for nothing.
• Chiapas: Mediation is a prerequisite where conservation and indigenous rights clash.

31 Jan 2009 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 37

Agriculture and Productivity – conservation imperatives

• Food and fuel: Prices matter more than ever – and the stakes are very high.
• When you ship 1kg of beef around the world, you’re actually shipping about 16,000 litres of water.
• Feature: Global demand for land to produce food, fuel and fibre will likely lead to a large-scale land grab.
• Forest foods: A complex problem needs complex solutions.
• Production and conservation: Temporary solutions in dynamic landscapes.

17 Sep 2008 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 36

Rights-based approaches to forest conservation

• News: Liberia’s forest exploitation over the last half-century has ridden roughshod over customary property rights.
• Perspective: The urban public generally view forest conservation as an unquestionably ‘good thing’ akin to apple pie, motherhood and soccer.
• Feature: Are the ‘rights of nature’ always consistent with human rights? What about organisms such as viruses which can kill people?
• Around the world: Now that the land is ours we have to take care of it.

07 Aug 2008 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 35

• Tools for forest conservation
• Forest livelihoods: Two tools for exploring local livelihoods relating to forest use
• Feature: Forest conservation tools: the science of muddling through
• Tools in the field: Four cases of forest conservation tools

31 Dec 2007 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 34

• A green light for REDD? Forests and climate change
• The science behind forests-climate change links
• Climate change and forest livelihoods
• Feature: Climate change and forestry: a complicated relationship
• Forest adaptation to climate change
• Forests, energy and climate change
• Carbon offsets
• The REDD debate

30 Oct 2007 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 33

• Forests and trade
• The bushmeat trade
• Biodiversity offsets
• Feature: The changing face of forest industry and trade
• Making forest trade work for forest people

30 May 2007 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 32

• Illegal logging: choosing carrots for change
• Defining and verifying legality: Timber legality standards and verification mechanisms
• Feature: illegal logging and the future of forests
• Illegal logging and forest livelihoods
• Tackling illegal logging: innovative cases and reports from Indonesia, Mexico, Sri Lanka, DRC and Paraguay.

31 Dec 2006 | Downloads - publication