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Investment Screening Guidelines for Financial Investors
Coming December 2009 - WWF's GFTN will launch Investment Screening Guidelines for Financial Investors in December to encourage support for responsible forest finance.
New Generations Plantations Project - Synthesis Report 2007 - 2009
Well-managed and appropriately-located plantations can contribute positively to sustainable development. The project explores how plantations can support biodiversity, benefit local communities and contribute to economic growth.
WWF Guide to Conservation Finance
The Guide to Conservation Finance provides an overview of conservation financing mechanisms that have been implemented throughout the world.
Protected Areas Benefits Assessment Tool
Protected area managers and protected area agencies are increasingly being asked to provide details of the wider social and environmental benefits of the lands and waters under their management. This tool provides a methodology for collating such information for individual protected areas.
Available in English and Russian
New guide for financial institutions: The Palm Oil Financing Handbook
Practical guidance on sustainable financing and investing in the palm oil sector
Promoting responsible forest trade of Bolivian Lesser-Known Timber Species (LKTS)
GOOD WOOD AND FOREST CONSERVATION
Many will find it strange that WWF, the global conservation organization, would promote timber and logging -- particularly in tropical forests. But the fact is that WWF does support forest industries in all parts of the world provided that they practice socially and environmentally responsible forest management. While WWF continues work to protect the most ecologically valuable forests in reserves, we see responsible forestry as a key component of sustainable development that can and should go hand in hand with forest conservation.
Palm oil, soy and tropical forests: a strategy for life.
Between 2000 and 2006, the area harvested for soy and palm oilglobally increased by almost 22 million hectares—an area twice thesize of Cuba. Today this expansion continues unabated, and in manyplaces is occurring at the expense of natural rainforests and thepeople who depend on them to survive.
WWF Discussion Paper: Policy Approaches and Positive Incentives for REDD
A WWF discussion paper on policy approaches and positive incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) as part of the post-2012 UN climate agreement.
Tracking progress in protected area management
Developed by the WWF and World Bank, the Tracking Tool is designed to further track and monitor progress towards worldwide protected area management effectiveness. It is aimed at being cheap and simple to use by park staff, while supplying consistent data about protected areas and management progress over time. New revised version is available now.