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
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