Policies, players and issues across the region.

The forest biodiversity challenge

April, 2012. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTS AND FORESTRY TO 2020. Forest Policy Brief 03. 2 pages

Advice on the application of relevant REDD+ safeguards for biodiversity, and on possible indicators and potential mechanisms to assess impacts of REDD+ measures of biodiversity

February, 2012. Executive Secretar, Convention of Biological Diversity. SUBSIDIARY BODY ON SCIENTIFIC, TECHNICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVICE Sixteenth meeting. Montreal, 30 April - 5 May 2012. Item 7.1 of the provisional agenda. UNEP/CBD/SBSTTA/16/8. 25 pages

McKinsey ‘cost-curves’ are distorting REDD

November, 2010. Nathaniel Dyer and Simon Counsell. Rainforest Foundation UK – Climate and Forests Policy Brief. 12 pages

Opportunities for achieving biodiversity conservation through REDD

February, 2010. Celia A. Harvey, Barney Dickson, Cyril Kormos. Conservation Letters, Volume 3, Issue 1, pages 53–61. DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2009.00086.x

The potential ecological costs and cobenefits of REDD: a critical review and case study from the Amazon region

December, 2009. STICKLER, C. M., NEPSTAD, D. C., COE, M. T., McGRATH, D. G., RODRIGUES, H. O., WALKER, W. S., SOARES-FILHO, B. S. and DAVIDSON, E. A. Global Change Biology, Volume 15, Issue 12, pages 2803–2824. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02109.x

Mitigating climate change and transforming lives in forest margins: Lessons from swiddens in Indonesia

June, 2009. Meine van Noordwijk, Elok Mulyoutami, Niken Sakuntaladewi and Fahmuddin Agus. Policy Brief No 1. World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF, SEA Regional Office. 6 pages*

Forest loss and fragmentation in the Amazon: implications for wildlife conservation

April, 2009. William F. Laurance, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos and Thomas E. Lovejoy. Oryx, Volume 34, Issue 01 , pp 39 -45. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3008.2000.00094.x