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Innovazione, cambiamento climatico, opere infrastrutturali e pianificazione territoriale: AFVO. Foreste e Sviluppo Rurale - RRN Magazine. Numero 3 Marzo 2012.
No full textThe impact of REDD+ projects on chainsaw milling in Peru: two case studies. ETFRN News 52: “Chainsaw milling: supplier of local markets”. Tropenbos International and CIFOR. Wageningen, The Netherlands. ISBN: 978-90-5113-094-2, ISSN: 1876-5866.
No full textBridging SFM certification with voluntary carbon market standards in REDD projects: organisational aspects analysis. Department Book No. 106. TESAF. University of Padova, Italy.
No full textResponsible Plantations. Sustainable and responsible investments in forest plantations, 33. In PRICE project.
No full textCase Study: the Salcheto Carbon Free ecological corridors under the COResa scheme and the Italian Forest Carbon Code. In: Quelle Certification pour les projects de compensation carbone en foret francaise? Clun Carbone-Foret-Bois, Dossier n.8, 24 Juin 2014. CDC Climat, Paris.
No full textEnvironmental services under climatic change: better income from forests? In: Forest Management of Mediterranean Forest Under the New Context of Climate Change.Ed. M.E.Lucas-Borja
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Progetti REDD+: nuove frontiere e vecchie barriere nel mercato forestale del carbonio.
No full textI processi di deforestazione e degradazione delle foreste, in gran parte concentrati nei Paesi tropicali, sono responsabili di almeno il 15% delle emissioni di gas serra (Van der Werf et al., 2009). La Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) delle Nazioni Unite stima infatti per il periodo 2000-2010 una perdita annuale di foreste pari a 13 milioni di ettari (una superficie pari alla Grecia) concentrata in Sud America, Africa e Sud Est Asiatico, compensata solo in parte da 7,8 milioni di ettari anno tra piantagioni estensive ed espansione naturale delle foreste rispettivamente concentrate in Cina ed Europa.
Uno degli strumenti principali sviluppati per mitigare i cambiamenti climatici è la creazione di mercati delle quote di emissione di gas di serra. I mercati interessano anche il settore forestale: in linea teorica è del tutto evidente e logico che l’espansione delle aree boscate, il miglioramento degli stock e la prevenzione dei fenomeni di degrado delle foreste sono dei processi analoghi ma di segno opposto rispetto alle emissioni di gas di serra e possono quindi creare “crediti” di emissione. In effetti nel mercato volontario del carbonio, creato su iniziativa delle imprese, del settore non-profit e supportato occasionalmente da amministrazioni pubbliche locali, i rimboschimenti, i miglioramenti dello stock e i progetti di controllo del degrado delle foreste sono da tempo pienamente riconosciuti. Nel mercato “istituzionale”, legato al Protocollo di Kyoto (PK) e agli accordi ufficiali dei Governi, solo le piantagioni sono inclusi nello scambio di quote, peraltro sotto forti condizioni restrittive.
I problemi generali e le potenzialità dell’inclusione del settore forestale nel quadro normativo internazionale del mercato del carbonio verranno discussi nella prima parte del presente contributo, mentre nella seconda parte si illustreranno i problemi particolari legati all’attivazione di progetti in grado di ridurre la deforestazione e la degradazione delle foreste tropicali (i progetti Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation - REDD). Nelle considerazioni finali verrà nello specifico analizzato il ruolo delle risorse forestali nella strategia italiana di riduzione delle emissioni di gas serra
Influence of corporate responsibility on financial return in forest plantations: case studies from South America, South East Asia and Africa
Full text linkInvestments in planted forests in emerging markets are increasing and investors are looking for Sustainable and Responsible Investments (SRI) to integrate Environmental, Social And Governance (ESG) into the investment process.
This study is presenting a first attempt to develop a framework to evaluate the ESG performance of investments in planted forests and to identify relations between the use of SRI tools and the financial performance of investments in planted forests.
The analysis of 121 investments in planted forests allowed the identification of 339 organizations and 50 SRI tools (e.g.: management and investment standards, investment rating) operating with investments in planted forests in emerging markets. The analysis of the 50 SRI tools resulted in the definition of a ESG Reference Document including 155 issues. These issues were organized into an ESG Risk Assessment and have been tested in 12 case studies evenly distributed between Uganda, Cambodia and Vietnam.
The results suggest that the most common instruments are management standards (e.g.: FSC), bank investment policies (e.g.: ABN AMRO Forest and Plantation Policy) and investment rating systems (e.g.: FairForest). The majority of the SRI tools have a broad sectoral approach and are managed by business organizations. Investors are using more than 30 SRI tools but these are characterized by a low level of control such as signature and/or participation or at the most a conformity declaration. On the contrary plantation companies are using less instruments but with top level of control such conformity assessment and certification.
Aspects related to “Legal and Institutional framework” and “Environment” are the most represented inside SRI tools. On the contrary aspects such as “Minimum percentage of protected areas”, “Poverty reduction” and “Prevention of encroachment” are not only the less frequent issues but also the less controlled issues by SRI tools.
The Gold Standard and the Forest Stewardship Council are the SRI tools with the highest performance among the 50 SRI tools analysed.
The ESG Risk Assessment allows to identify the most important 25 issues and reveals that SRI tools are focusing on issues that on-the-ground are not the major risk sources. This is the case of “Third party certification” and “High Conservation Value Forests” (HCVFs). Few exemptions where SRI tools are properly identifying the major risks are “Tenure rights”, “Health and safety of workers” and “Social impact assessment”. Climate change impacts, long term financial sustainability, poverty reduction and encroachment are ranked as the most dangerous sources of risk across the 12 case studies.
SRI tools are positively influencing the risk mitigation, accounting for a percentage of risk mitigation that ranges from 34.31 till 60.63%. FSC certification was often reported by projects’ stakeholders as a key instrument to mitigate risk of investments in planted forests
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