Forêt, Bois, Milieux naturels : politique, législation et réglementation

"Ten U.S. cities have thriving urban forests — parks, trails, gardens — that clean the air, attract tourists, boost property values and reduce energy costs, a federally funded survey finds."

"We present the 42nd version of the Global Forest Coalition’s newsletter in intergovernmental forest-related policy processes: Forest Cover no.42. In the editorial you can read about REDD+ developments and other fairy tales in Doha during COP18, followed by an analysis of the COP18 main happenings written by our Latin American Indigenous Focal Point; you will also find an article on the dangerous Bieconomy’s synthetic biology proposal which depicts some of its potential social and environmental impacts which were not fully addressed during the last Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP11) in Hyderabad, India. Also a representative from a local Indian grassroots NGO makes an analysis of what COP11 meant for the host country. Finally, an article depicting the importance of recognizing Indigenous Peoples and Local Community Conserved Areas and Territories (ICCAs) and its important outcomes during COP11. Enjoy your reading!"

Peru's Vice Ministry of Interculturalism is currently carrying out a project to protect Territorial Reserves for Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation or in initial contact. The US$1 mil...

La Banque mondiale intervient dans le secteur des forêts parce que ce milieu (...)

"The necessary paperwork has been completed for seven new Wetlands of International Importance in Romania, designated by the Ministry of Environment and Forests with several different designation dates. All of them are closely related to the Danube River meadows and the river's older arms, and all of them have very high biodiversity values. Ramsar's Laura Máiz-Tomé has prepared brief summaries of the new sites for the Annotated Ramsar List, and those can be found below."

"The UN Environment Programme Riso Centre (UNEP Riso), in collaboration with the UN-REDD Programme published a report on the economics of forest and forest carbon projects.

The report is based on REDD+ case studies from Brazil, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Georgia, Indonesia, Madagascar, Mexico and Senegal. Based on the case studies, the report concludes that public-private partnerships that reduce investment risk are most successful at attracting the private sector, and that carbon credits act as only a secondary source of income."

"This report seeks to better understand the relationships between biodiversity, carbon, forests and people, so as to support the achievement of REDD+ objectives. It summarises the latest scientific literature to make sense of the complex web of relationships, how they may be affected by the implementation of REDD+ management activities, and the potential trade-offs and synergies between and among environmental and socioeconomic objectives."

This paper is the second in an evolving series surveying forest carbon standards for their insight relevant to results-based payments for REDD+. The objective of this paper is to assess how different results-based initiatives deal with common Reference Level (RL) design problems in order to inform REDD+ negotiations and policy makers. It is also intended to serve as a reference for a consolidated overview of options for constructing RLs, and enhance understanding of how their different forms and function will impact the overall design of REDD+ mechanisms.

BOGOR, Indonesia (12 February, 2013)_ As China and Vietnam move toward decentralised, market-baed economies, they will need to improve the cost-effectiveness of ambitious programmes offering cash r...

Jusqu’à présent, les associations de protection de la nature et de l’environnement (APNE) avaient leur Graal:...

Ministers identified climate change adaptation as a strategic issue in 2007.

The governor of Indonesia's Aceh Province on the island of Sumatra has proposed opening up more than 50,000 hectares of protected forest to logging, according to a new analysis by an Indonesian environmental group..

World Bank Unmoved on Auditor’s Criticism of Forest Policy - Officials at the World Bank are forcefully rejecting a new internal evaluation that is highly critical of the institution’s decade-long forest policy, expressing their “strong...

Conserver voire conforter leur rôle de pivot sur les territoires : c'est le message que les parcs naturels régionaux ont voulu faire passer à Cécile Duflot le 13 février. Lors de sa rencontre avec la

"Le 07 février la Commission européenne publiait les règles d’application du Règlement Bois de l’Union Européenne (RBUE). Ce règlement a été adopté en octobre 2010. Il interdit toute commercialisation de bois illégal sur le territoire européen, qu’il soit importé ou produit au sein de l’Union Européenne et impose aux importateurs de mettre en place des systèmes de surveillance pour éviter son entrée sur le territoire européen."

"The World Bank’s $4.1bn (£2.6bn) investments in forestry over the past 10 years have done little to reduce poverty, improve conservation, tackle climate change or benefit local communities in developing countries, a study by its own inspectors has found.

The 202-page report – a copy of which has been seen by the Guardian – was compiled by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), which consists of senior bank staff and outside consultants. The document says the bank’s financial support helped to protect 24m hectares (59m acres) of forest around the world and to classify 45m ha of forest as being on indigenous people’s land. But it says the bank mostly failed to address critical social and environmental issues."

Depuis 2009, la commission européenne met en œuvre les orientations du livre blanc sur l'adaptation au changement climatique.

"As long as natural forests can be accessed as local sources of timber, there is little incentive for farmers to grow timber on their own land. Early successes with national programs for farmer tree planting in the Philippines were achieved with fast growing trees – that brought disappointingly low levels of income once harvested, as the quality of wood was low. Meanwhile, some farmers took the initiative to grow high-value, slower-growing native timbers on their farms, planting trees between their maize. What are the prospects for this? Which types of farmers are doing it? Is it profitable? What policy measures could support or enhance such agroforestation of the landscape? A recent study looked at several of these questions at the island of Leyte in the Philippines. The results have implications for other forest margin locations."

La compensation des impacts résiduels des aménagements sur les milieux naturels prévue par la loi depuis 1976 n’est pas toujours bien appliquée.

"France has ratified the Convention on the European Forest Institute. The Convention on EFI has now been ratified by a total of 24 European countries. Entry into force will take place on 11 March 2013."