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Carbon markets
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Carbon offsetting: who’s really winning?
To tackle climate change and poverty, we need to look past win-win solutions and start asking tough questions
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REDD+ in Paris – what could be in it for people and forests?
Curbing climate emissions means managing and using existing forests, and land sustainably. An IIED workshop in Paris will look at how the programme to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) can be made more effective, while also supporting local communities
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The SDGs speak and we like what we hear
Smallholder and community carbon projects have shown they can deliver local benefits and promote climate resilience. Now the Plan Vivo Standard and its partners, representing the oldest ethical carbon standard, have pledged their commitment to the delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals
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Three big financial shifts put spotlight on social and environmental impacts of large dams — again
With three big shifts in flows of finance rendering recent efforts to limit the environmental and social impacts of large dams marginal, backers of new dams are being urged to ensure safeguards are in place
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Community Development Carbon Finance toolkit
IIED's environmental economics programme prepared a carbon finance toolkit for the World Bank's Community Development Carbon Fund, highlighting the potential for incorporating carbon finance into community development projects
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AdMit
This pilot project presented a new alternative to carbon offsetting that addresses many of the doubts about and weakness of voluntary carbon trading.
