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Biodiversity Credits: An Overview of the Current State, Future Opportunities, and Potential Pitfalls Open

Sven Wunder, Cecilia Fraccaroli, Joseph W. Bull, Trishna Dutta, Alison Eyres , et al. · 2025

Biodiversity credits are an emerging vehicle for pro‐environmental financing, yet much uncertainty remains around how and when they could boost biodiversity conservation. Here we define what biodiversity credits are and explore impact path…

Biodiversity credits: learning lessons from other approaches to incentivize conservation Open

Sven Wunder, Cecilia Fraccaroli, Joseph W. Bull, Trishna Dutta, Alison Eyres , et al. · 2024

Biodiversity credits are an emerging vehicle for pro-environmental financing. Here we define and delimit biodiversity credits, explore their impact pathways, discuss potential future supply and demand, bundling/stacking options, and needed…

Biodiversity credits: learning lessons from other approaches to incentivize conservation Open

Sven Wunder, Cecilia Fraccaroli, Joseph W. Bull, Trishna Dutta, Alison Eyres , et al. · 2024

Biodiversity credits are an emerging vehicle for pro-environmental financing. Here we define and delimit biodiversity credits, explore their impact pathways, discuss potential future supply and demand, bundling/stacking options, and needed…

Wood identification services in support of legal supply chains: A market study Open

Jo Van Brusselen, Mathias Cramm, Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne · 2023

Major wood-importing markets, such as the European Union, the United States of America, and China, have set regulations in place requiring operators to only sell wood-based goods that are sourced and processed in accordance with local laws…

Does climate-smart agriculture improve household income and food security? Evidence from Southern Ethiopia Open

Abrham Belay, Alisher Mirzabaev, John Recha, Christopher Oludhe, Philip Osano , et al. · 2023

Effects of EU illegal logging policy on timber-supplying countries: A systematic review Open

Fredy Polo Villanueva, Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Georg Winkel, Paolo Cerutti, Sabaheta Ramcilovic‐Suominen , et al. · 2022

Out of the Flames: Mapping Online Engagement and Public Narratives Around the 2019 Amazon Rainforest Fires Open

Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan Gray, Gabriele Colombo, Rina Tsubaki, Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne · 2022

"Out of the Flames" examines how online publics engage with key global events associated with forests, forest issues and forest governance and how social media activities are involved in articulating different ways of relating to, experien…

Historical Trajectory in Vegetation Cover in Northeastern Namibia Based on AVHRR Satellite Imagery (1982–2015) Open

Augustine-Moses Gaavwase Gbagir, Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Alfred Colpaert · 2019

The negative impact of the reduction of vegetation cover is already being felt in the Zambezi Region in northeastern Namibia. The region has been undergoing various land cover changes in the past decades. To understand the historical trend…

Forest Concessions and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Potentials, Challenges and Ways Forward Open

Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Mathias Cramm, Jo Van Brusselen, Thaís Linhares-Juvenal · 2019

The Agenda 2030 and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have directed increased political attention to forests and their sustainable management globally. Forest concessions are a predominant instrument for the sustainable management o…

Sustainable Forest Management, FLEGT, and REDD+: Exploring Interlinkages to Strengthen Forest Policy Coherence Open

Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Mathias Cramm, Jo Van Brusselen · 2018

Sustainable forest management (SFM) is a concept that guides forest management and policy globally. Over the past decades, two prominent regimes have emerged at the global level that can strengthen SFM: The European Union’s Action Plan on …

Making Forest Concessions in the Tropics Work to Achieve the 2030 Agenda: Voluntary Guidelines Open

Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne, Jo Van Brusselen, Mathias Cramm, Thaís Linhares-Juvenal, Pablo Pacheco , et al. · 2018

Sustainable wood products and their value chains can play a fundamental role in achieving the objectives stated in the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement, delivering a wide range of benefits to populations in remote forest areas as well a…

Resources and Rules of the Game: Participation of Civil Society in REDD+ and FLEGT‐VPA Processes in Lao PDR Open

Irmeli Mustalahti, Mathias Cramm, Sabaheta Ramcilovic‐Suominen, Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne · 2017

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) aims to achieve its purpose by working across multiple sectors and involving multilevel actors in reducing deforestation and forest degradation in tropical countries. By …

FLEGT and REDD+ synergies and impacts in the Congo Basin : lessons for global forest governance Open

Yitagesu Tekle Tegegne · 2016

In the past four decades, a range of policies and governance mechanisms have been created to deal with complex problems associated with the use of the world s forests. Two of the most recent international policies are the European Union s …

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