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Conserving ecosystem services that reduce risk to the world’s poorest
A framework proposal
The Center for International Forestry Research February 2012
Adapting forests and people to climate change
Conserving ecosystem services that reduce risk to the world’s poorest
A framework proposal
The Center for International Forestry ResearchFebruary 2012
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Center for International Forestry Research CIFOR advances human wellbeing, environmental conservation and equity by conducting research to inform policies and practices that affect forests in developing countries. CIFOR is a CGIARConsortium Research Center. CIFOR’s headquarters are in Bogor, Indonesia and it also has offices in Asia, Africa and South America.
Contents
Executive Summary 1 2 Background and rationale Objectives
2.1 Specific objectives
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Geographical target areas
3.1 3.2 3.3 Southeast Asia Central America West, East and Central Africa
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Impacts
4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6Impact pathway 1: Forest managers, project developers Impact pathway 2: National policymakers Impact pathway 3: Negotiators for multilateral environmental agreements Impact pathway 4: Scientists Impact pathway 5: International adaptation funding Impact pathway 6: REDD+ funding and carbon markets
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Project design and implementation
5.1 Project components
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6Why CIFOR?
6.1 6.2 Our team Timeframe and management
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Budget
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Annex I. Impact pathways
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Executive Summary
Climate change is expected to trigger more frequent and more fierce storms, floods, landslides, forest fires, temperature extremes and droughts, and developing countries will bear the brunt of these blows. These countries are home to poor populationswho live and work in floodplains, mountainsides and deltas. When disaster strikes, they lose their homes, crops and livelihoods. Most countries have adaptation plans to shore up the resilience of communities, but they fail to make forests part of the equation. Forests must be part of adaptation plans because they, too, are vulnerable, and they play a key role in reducing society’s vulnerability tolosses from climate change. More than a billion people depend on forests for some part of their livelihoods, and CIFOR research has revealed that households in and around forests derive an average of 24% of their income from forests. Forests provide basic needs such as food and building materials, as well as spiritual nourishment through recreation and indigenous traditions. Forests also save livesby storing clean water, preventing landslides in the mountains, and protecting against storms on coasts. However, the levels of tropical deforestation and forest degradation is driving the loss of biological diversity and impairing ecosystem function. With growing populations’ needs for food and income, poorly managed harvesting and gathering of timber and other products from forests canexacerbate the problem. CIFOR has designed a five-year initiative of research and action to reduce climate change-related risks through improved forest management, and to exploit the synergies between forest-based adaptation and mitigation strategies. The initiative would link policy analysis, vulnerability assessment, adaptation planning, research support to local initiatives, and knowledge disseminationto contribute to the inclusion of forests in adaptation policies and plans. Activities would focus on Southeast Asia, Central America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Impacts would be achieved through influencing the decisions of forest managers, project developers, national policymakers, negotiators, scientists, and financiers. Healthy, diverse forests and adaptive institutions to manage them can...
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