Forestry and climate change

Links

International bodies

• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
  http://www.unfccc.int/
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) http://www.ipcc.ch/
  
• United Nations Environment Programme Climate Page http://www.grida.no/climate/
  
• World Meteorological Organization
  http://www.wmo.ch/

Forests and climate change

• CarboEurope - Assessment of the European Terrestrial Carbon Balance
  http://www.carboeurope.org/
  
• CarboEurope-IP - Internet platform forestry and climate
  http://www.forestandclimate.net
  
• Carbono & Bosques
  http://www.carbonoybosques.org
  
• CATIE Working group Cambio global
  http://www.catie.ac.cr/Magazin.asp?CodSeccion=169&MagSigla=TEMA_Cambio
  
• CGIAR - Alternatives to slash-and-burn programme climate change
  http://www.asb.cgiar.org/txt_only/Climate_Change.shtm
  
• CIDA Forestry advisers network - Tropical Forests and Climate Change
  http://www.rcfa-cfan.org/english/issues.13.html
  
• CIFOR - Carbon sequestration webpage
  http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/docs/_ref/findoutabout/carbon/index.htm
  
• CO2 fix - Carbon modelling
  http://www2.efi.fi/projects/casfor/
• Environmental Defense - Website on compensated reductions
  http://www.environmentaldefense.org/article.cfm?contentid=4224
  
• Forest trends
  http://www.forest-trends.org/programs/index.htm
  
• IIASA Forestry program
  http://www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/FOR/index.html
  
• IUCN - Forests and climate change
  http://www.iucn.org/themes/carbon/
  
• Land-use related choices under the Kyoto protocol
  http://www.joanneum.at/CarboInvent/workshop/workshop02.html
  
• Large Scale Biosphere-Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia (LBA)
  http://lba.inpa.gov.br/lba/indexi.html
  
• Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) ¿ Forests and climate change
  http://climatechange.nrcan.gc.ca/english/View.asp?x=9&oid=9
  
• Options for including LULUCF activities in a post-2012 international climate agreement
  http://www.joanneum.at/CarboInvent/post2012/workshop.html
  
• Simposio Internacional ¿Medición y Monitoreo de la Captura de Carbono en Ecosistemas Forestales¿
  http://www.uach.cl/procarbono/simposio/simp01.htm
  
• TimberCAM carbon accounting model
  http://www.greenhouse.crc.org.au/calculators/timbercam/
  
• World Agroforestry Centre ¿ Climate change website
  http://www.worldagroforestry.org/climatechange/index.asp

Adaptation to climate change

• Canadian climate impacts and adaptation research network (C-CIARN)
  http://forest.c-ciarn.ca/
  
• Linking Climate Adaptation - International Network
  http://community.eldis.org/lca/
  
• Silvicultural response strategies to climate change in management of European forests
  http://www.efi.fi/projects/silvistrat/
  
• US global climate change research program
  http://www.usgcrp.gov/usgcrp/links/assessments.htm

FAO statistical databases

• FAOSTAT - Forestry data
  http://faostat.fao.org/faostat/collections?subset=forestry
  
• FORIS - Statistics on forests and forestry
  http://www.fao.org/forestry/foris/webview/forestry2/index.jsp?siteId=5081&langId=1
  
• Global forest resource assessment
  http://www.fao.org/forestry/site/fra/en
  
• Forestry data collection and analysis
  http://www.fao.org/forestry/site/5626/en
  
• Forest products yearbook
  http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/docrep/008/y5985m/y5985m00.htm
  
• Terrastat - Land resources statistics
  http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/agll/terrastat/
  
• Prosoil - Interactive database on soils
  http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/agricult/agl/agll/prosoil/prosoil.asp
  
• METART - Satellite imagery & meteorological data
  http://metart.fao.org/default.htm
  
• FAOSTAT-Agriculture
  http://faostat.fao.org/faostat/collections?subset=agriculture

Projects - Flexible Mechanisms

• CDM watch
  http://www.cdmwatch.org/
• Climate, Community and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA)
  http://www.climate-standards.org/
• ENCOFOR - Environment and community based framework for designing afforestation, reforestation and revegetation projects in the CDM: methodology development and case studies
  http://www.joanneum.at/encofor
  
• Plan vivo
  http://www.planvivo.org/
  
• SinksWatch - An initiative to track and scrutinize carbon sink projects
  http://www.sinkswatch.org/
  
• UNEP Risoe centre CD4CDM - Capacity development for the CDM
  http://www.cd4cdm.org/
• UNFCCC - Afforestation and Reforestation CDM
  http://cdm.unfccc.int/Projects/pac/pac_ar.html
  
• University of Twente - Bringing community forest management under CDM
  http://www.communitycarbonforestry.org/
  
• World Bank - Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF)
  www.prototypecarbonfund.org
  
• World Bank - BioCarbon fund
  http://carbonfinance.org/biocarbon/home.cfm
  
• World Bank - Community Development Carbon Fund (CDCF)
  www.communitycarbonfund.org
  

Climate change information resources

• Climate ark - climate change portal
  http://www.climateark.org/
  
• Climate change links page - FAO PAIA
  http://www.fao.org/clim/links.htm
  
• GTZ CDM Highlights - monthly newsletter
  http://www.gtz.de/en/themen/umwelt-infrastruktur/umweltpolitik/4837.htm
  
• IISD Linkages - Climate change info mailing list
  http://www.iisd.ca/process/climate_atm.htm
  
• UNEP/GRID-Arendal climate change information service
  http://www.climatewire.org/
  
• UNFCCC CDM News
  http://cdm.unfccc.int/CDMNews
  
  

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