Sustainable Forestry Initiative Certification
The SFI has certified 250 million acres of forest in the US and Canada, and recognizes the importance of forests in carbon capture and climate change mitigation.
State Forestry Agency Perspectives on Carbon Management and Carbon Market Assistance to Family Forest Owners
This report surveys efforts to aid family farm owners in carbon management of forested areas, including six states that have offered programs for carbon management by direct payments to landowners or by providing a platform for carbon markets.
Contribution of afforestation subsidies policy to climate change adaptation in the Czech Republic
This paper investigates the adaptive capacity of subsidized afforestation projects in the Czech Republic.
Forest Carbon Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change: A Toolkit for State Governments
This toolkit suggests policies that States can adopt to support forest carbon services.
Recommendations for Enhancing the Role of Forests In Climate Change Mitigation and Ecosystem Adaption to Climate Change
This policy statement outlines recommendation related to private forest management, urban forests, forest health funding, and federal and state land management policy to sequester carbon on forested lands.
Agri-environmental policy valuation: Farmers’ contract design preferences for afforestation schemes
This paper finds that farmers have a strong disutility for large forests and long contracts and would be willing to receive less subsidy if they receive technical forest management advice and have the opportunity to return to agricultural land-uses.
The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100)
The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) is a country-led effort to bring 100 million hectares of deforested and degraded landscapes across Africa into restoration by 2030.
California Air Resources Board Compliance Offset Protocol U.S. Forest Projects
The Compliance Offset Protocol U.S. Forest Projects (Forest Offset Protocol) provides requirements and methods for quantifying the net climate benefits of activities that sequester carbon on forestland.
The New York Declaration on Forests
Non-binding political declaration from the United Nations Climate Summit 2014 to cut natural forest loss in half by 2020, and strive to end it by 2030.
Leveraging public programmes with socio-economic and development objectives to support conservation and restoration of ecosystems : lessons learned from the Republic of Korea’s National Reforestation Programme
This report describes the background, methodology, and implementation processes which led to the success of the National Reforestation Programme in the Republic of Korea.