Achieving Cost-Effective Reductions in Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation through Leverage of Demand-side Measures and Local Capacity Building (Short name: “Achieving Cost-Effective Emissions Reductions”)
The project will aim towards reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in REDD+ countries by applying timber-trade-related demand-side approaches to scale globally and to other drivers of deforestation.
Organization
Environmental Investigation Agency, Inc. (EIA U.S.) in conjunction with Environmental Investigation Agency, Ltd. (EIA UK)Impacts
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Budget
Total for 2013-2015:
40 000 000 Norwegian kroner
The organization has received funding for a different project from 2009-2013:
8 750 000 Norwegian kroner
To reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in REDD+ countries by applying timber-trade-related demand-side approaches to scale globally and to other drivers of deforestation.
Outcomes
- Importing Countries : Stronger and well-enforced wood legality standards.
- Communities: Aware and equipped to exercise their rights; Operating in a system that allows and protects those rights
- Source/Exporting Countries : Stronger laws, implementing regulations and enforcement; Rights protections embedded in law
- International Institutions : Stronger standards and monitoring frameworks
- Market Actors : Adherence to strict legality standards; Strong chain of custody and transparency standards
Implementers
- Asociacion de Consejos Comunitarios y Organizaciones Del Bajo Atrato (ASCOBA)
- AIDESEP
- CAPPA
- Center for International Environmental Law
- Climate Advisers
- CURUINSI
- Eco REDD
- Environmental Investigation Agency U.S. and UK
- Forest Watch Indonesia
- Foro Ecológico
- Foro Interetnico Solidaridad Choco (FISCH)
- Instituto de Investigaciones Ambientales del Pacifico (IIAP)
- Jaringan Pemantau Independen Kehutanan (JPIK)
- Mainyoito Pastoralists Integrated Organization (MPIDO)
- PPJ
- Rainforest Action Network
- Red Ambiental Loretana
- Reverb
- Sierra Club
- Suma Ciudadana
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- WALHI
- Warsi
Published 22.10.2013
Last updated 16.02.2015