Category: Publications

Practical Guide to Conducting Due Diligence of Tropical Timber Products – Peru

The guide is part of the series that was first launched in 2017 with guides profiling Brazil and Ghana. The series of guides summarises the main documents that evidence legality, and how to interpret them for each country, in order for buyers to conduct document-based due diligence of timber consignments to be imported into the US and European markets.

The guide profiling Peru includes a brief description of the legality framework and the organisations involved in the forest and timber sector. It also includes a summary of the main documents along the supply chain and the main risks regarding illegality in the country, and shows real samples of these documents and how to read them, flagging what to be aware of when reviewing them.

Guía práctica para realizar diligencia debida de productos de madera tropical – Perú (Spanish)

La guía forma parte de la serie que se lanzó por primera vez en 2017 con guías que describen el Brasil y Ghana. En la serie de guías se resumen los principales documentos que prueban la legalidad, y cómo interpretarlos para cada país, a fin de que los compradores puedan realizar una diligencia debida basada en documentos de los envíos de madera que se van a importar a los mercados de los Estados Unidos y Europa. También brinda un resumen de los principales riesgos asociados a la legalidad de la madera que la diligencia debida debe tomar en cuenta, para cada país en particular.

Lesser-Known & Lesser-Used Timber Species

Lesser-known and lesser-used species refer in this booklet to under-utilised timber species from Ghana that have similar properties to other popular species.

There are more than 50,000 species of timber in the world, but only a small proportion of these are used commercially. Currently, Ghana has nearly 90 species that are regularly exploited and traded as timber. Lesser-known & lesser-used species can have similar and even better performance for some specific end-uses; they can also have a more distinctive and unique appearance compared to more popular ones. Using these species is not only a good business decision but also has the potential to improve livelihoods and protect biodiversity.

Pocket Guide to Response Measures under the UNFCCC

European Capacity Building Initiative Publication

The term ‘response measures’ is not in regular use outside of the UNFCCC process, and is not easily understood by policymakers and stakeholders even within the process. This Guide aims to increase understanding of the topic, particularly among climate negotiators, to facilitate the UNFCCC negotiations on response measures.

Pocket Guide to Climate Science and the UNFCCC

European Capacity Building Initiative Publication

The climate negotiations are strongly influenced, on all sides, by appeals to ‘listen to the science’. This Pocket Guide is aimed at both scientists and policymakers who are involved in the science-policy interface that underpins the negotiations. It provides guidance on questions such as what is meant by ‘climate science’? How do you know which ‘scientific’ voices to listen to? How do you balance scientific information against other relevant considerations?

CCM Guidance note 2: Additionality and Positive Lists

The Circular Credits Mechanism (CCM) is guided by a set of Principles & Criteria to ensure the environmental and social integrity of the credits issued and the waste management systems of its users. An important factor affecting the environmental integrity of projects is the concept of is additionality. At the same time, the application of additionality requirements and analyses needs to be contextualised in order to yield sound outcomes.

This note discusses the concept and application of additionality to circular action projects.

Pocket Guide to Finance under the UNFCCC

European Capacity Building Initiative Publication

Finance has always played a pivotal role in the global climate change negotiations, as an enabler of action but also as an indicator of the level of trust between developed and developing countries. It will continue to do so in the future – the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted by many developing countries include elements whose implementation is conditional to the provision of financial and other support, and the discussions on finance for adaptation and loss and damage are likely to heat up in future as climate impacts increase. Over the years, the climate finance negotiations have acquired their own layers of complexity, accompanied by their own – often loaded – vocabulary. This Guide aims to help developing country climate negotiators navigate this complexity and understand what has gone by, to negotiate more effectively in future.

Pocket Guide to Finance under the UNFCCC

European Capacity Building Initiative Publication

Finance has always played a pivotal role in the global climate change negotiations, as an enabler of action but also as an indicator of the level of trust between developed and developing countries. It will continue to do so in the future – the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) submitted by many developing countries include elements whose implementation is conditional to the provision of financial and other support, and the discussions on finance for adaptation and loss and damage are likely to heat up in future as climate impacts increase. Over the years, the climate finance negotiations have acquired their own layers of complexity, accompanied by their own – often loaded – vocabulary. This Guide aims to help developing country climate negotiators navigate this complexity and understand what has gone by, to negotiate more effectively in future.

Pocket Guide to Gender Equality under the UNFCCC (2020)

European Capacity Building Initiative Publication

This updated Guide includes the 2019 Enhanced Lima Work Programme on Gender and its Gender Action Plan, and updated resources for incorporating gender in climate planning and action.

CCM Guidance note 1: No Double-Counting and No Free -Riding

This note aims to explain the concept and objective of the principles; No Double-Counting and No Free-Riding, as originally conceived by the CCM, and trigger a discussion related to their appropriateness and interpretation to real life situations.