Indian forest and wood certification scheme
The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has launched the Indian Forest & Wood Certification Scheme. This national forest certification scheme offers voluntary third-party certification
Forest Management
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REDD+ social & environmental standards
Standards to support the design and implementation of government-led REDD+ programs that respect the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities and generate significant social and environmental benefits.
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Green economy: developing countries success stories
The economic analysis in the Green Economy Report builds in part on the encouraging signs and results of many initiatives around the world.
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Asia-Pacific forests and forestry to 2020
This publication synthesizes observations and findings from almost 50 country and thematic reports in providing analyses of the status and trends of all aspects of Asia-Pacific forestry. Key factors driving changes in forestry in the region are analysed.
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People's resources
Democratising joint forest management
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India makes strong case for REDD+, joins Oslo Forestry Partnership
At the recently concluded Oslo Climate and Forest Conference (OCFC), India presented its initiatives on forestry related to climate change and made a strong case for a REDD+ mechanism, which takes a holistic approach for incentivising actions to reduce emissions from forests and promoting sustainable management of forests.
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Key role for gram sabhas in forestry plans
It would not be the Divisional Forest Officer (DFO) but the gram sabhas/panchayats (village committees) that would now control the Joint Forest Management Committees (JFMC) in the nine States of the country, falling under the provisions of the 73rd Amendment of 1993 and the Panchayat Extension to Scheduled Areas (PESA) Act of 1996.
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Govt to empower tribals to counter Maoist insurgency
Panchayats To Be Involved In Forest Management Our Political Bureau NEW DELHI THE Centre is working out ways to increase participation of tribals and their control over forest areas to counter Maoist insurgency.
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Climate change, forests and federalism: seeing the treaty for the trees
Despite numerous attempts over the past two decades
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AP surveys 7,000 forest samples
hyderabad, may 2: The AP Forest Inventory 2010, the report made by state forest officials is considered to be the first of its kind in the country.
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Adivasi women engaging with climate change
<p>Hundreds of millions of indigenous women and men throughout the world manage their forests and crops sustainably, and in this way contribute to the sequestration of greenhouse gases. However, maintaining control over their land and forests in the face of colonial and corporate attempts to nationalise or privatise them has been a historic struggle.</p>