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A key component of CI's work is liaising with governments and participating in global dialogues to advance effective solutions to climate change. Below are our latest materials.


Policy briefs


REDD+
SBSTA Recommendation regarding guidance on systems for providing information on how safeguards for REDD+ activities are addressed and respected (PDF - 352 KB)
SBSTA Submission on REDD+ (PDF - 162 KB)
Views on new market-based mechanisms: Using markets for the full implementation of REDD+ (PDF - 240 KB) (日本語 | en Español | en Français)
Setting reference levels for REDD+: some guidelines and principles (PDF - 131 KB)
Recommendations for forest carbon measuring, monitoring, reporting, and verifying guidance for REDD+ (PDF - 110KB) (en Français | 日本語 | en Español)

Adaptation
Adaptation Policy Brief (PDF - 424 KB)
Nairobi Work Program Submissions
Cambodia (PDF - 255 KB)
Colombia (PDF - 462 KB)
IKI (Brazil, Philippines, South Africa) (PDF - 420 KB)
Madagascar (PDF - 408 KB)


Finance
Climate Finance Essentials (PDF - 721 KB)
Green Climate Fund: Sources of International Climate Finance:

See 2010 policy documents


Reports and Strategy

REDD Lessons Learned
Celia A. Harvey, Olaf Zerbock, Stavros Papageorgiou and Angel Parra

DOWNLOAD: What is needed to make REDD+ work on the ground? Lessons learned from pilot forest carbon initiatives. (PDF - 1.78MB)

Download the executive summary and recommendations in:

Climate Change & the Role of Forests: A Community Manual
Susan Stone and Mario Chacón León

This document is part of a series of products created to provide training to indigenous peoples' organizations and local NGOs to support their efforts to bring information to indigenous peoples and local communities on the basics of climate change and REDD+. Download this manual in:

Natural Solutions to Climate Change

We have outlined our five approaches to identifying the natural solutions to climate change. They are: REDD+, Ecosystem-Based Adaptation, Policy, Climate-Friendly Land Use and Blue Carbon. Learn more about these specific approaches »

DOWNLOAD: Natural Solutions to Climate Change (PDF - 572 KB)


Textbook

Climate Change Biology

CI biologist Lee Hannah has written the first undergraduate textbook on the effects climate change on nature and biodiversity — Climate Change Biology (Elsevier).
ISBN: 978-0-12-374182-0

To learn more about this unique text and supporting course materials, visit:

WEBSITE: Climate Change Biology Textbook

 
 
 
 
 
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