Forest Trends
Below are links to a wide range of resources to guide individuals new to the fields of Payment for Ecosystem Services and Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation.
Climate Change
Effects of Climate Change, Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/interactive/0,31813,1620995,00.html
Climate Change Impacts: Feeling the Heat, The Nature Conservancy http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/issues/
Technologies, Policies and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change, IPCC http://www.gcrio.org/ipcc/techrepI/index.html
Forests
Forests and Climate Change, FAO Newsroom http://www.fao.org/newsroom/EN/focus/2006/1000247/index.html
Tropical Forests and Climate Change Adaptation http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/trofcca/_ref/home/index.htm
Science Clarified: Forests http://www.scienceclarified.com/Ex-Ga/Forests.html
PES
Getting Started, a Primer
http://www.katoombagroup.org/documents/publications/GettingStarted.pdf
Negotiating for Nature’s Services
http://www.katoombagroup.org/documents/publications/NegotiatingforNature.pdf
Sven Wunder: What are Payments for Environmental Services (video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNGPF1CdK-4
Our Changing Planet: Ecosystem Services (video)
http://www.umac.org/ocp/videos/ecosystemServices.html
A Gateway to PES
http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/a_gateway_to_pes_d_huberman.pdf
Making Sense of the Voluntary Carbon Market: A Comparison of Carbon Offset Standards, WWF
http://assets.panda.org/downloads/vcm_report_final.pdf
REDD
REDD in the Real World (video)
http://www.whrc.org/Policy/REDD/redd_film.htm
REDD: A New Animal in the Forest (video)
http://www.redd-monitor.org/2009/12/04/two-films-on-redd-in-indonesia-by-lifemosaic/
The Little REDD Book
http://www.globalcanopy.org/main.php?m=117&sm=176&t=1
Websites
Ecosystem Marketplace
http://ecosystemmarketplace.com/
Forest Carbon Portal
http://www.forestcarbonportal.com/
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change