Ressources

 letter submitted by APA to the Carbon Fund of the FCPF before their meeting (27-30 April) to consider the eligibility of Guyana to develop an Emission Reduction Project Idea Note (ER PIN) under the FCPF framework. The letter makes arguments for why Guyana is not ready to develop an emission reductions programme yet.

Click here to read NGOs letter to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Carbon Fund participants

Click here to read Forest Peoples Programme's comments on Suriname's Readiness Preparation Proposal, which was submitted to the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) by Suriname in February 2013. Read the FCPF's resolution on the Suriname R-PP at their 14th Participants Committee Meeting (19-21 March 2013) here. 

On the eve of the World Bank's Forest Investment Programme (FIP) joint mission to Peru and the meeting of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Partcipants Commitee in Asuncion (PC 11), the national Indigenous Amazonian peoples federation of Peru (AIDESEP) have sent a letter to the FIP and FCPF informing them of their serious concerns regarding the development of the FIP strategy for Peru and the broader national REDD strategy.

Read the Action Plan here from the Global Dialogue of Indigenous Peoples on the FCPF, Guna Yala, Panama, September 2011

Letter from Accountability Counsel • Amazon Watch • Both ENDS • Brainforest • Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale (CRBM) • Center for Biological Diversity • Center for International Environmental Law • Centro Alexander von Humboldt • Church World Service • Civic Response • ClientEarth • FERN • Friends of the Earth Norway • Friends of the Earth US • Forest Management Trust • Forest Peoples Programme • Global Witness • Greenpeace International • Indigenous Environmental Network • Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy • International Forum on Globalization • National Forum for Ad

DALAT, Vietnam (23 March 2011) – A new report launched today at the 8th meeting of the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) reveals that the Bank is not fulfilling its promises to protect the rights of forest peoples. Smoke and Mirrors: a critical assessment of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility by Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and FERN exposes the World Bank’s failure to uphold its commitments on human rights and its engagement in never-ending changes to its social and environmental policies, weakening its accountability to affected communities and the public.

This Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) and FERN report exposes ongoing serious problems in the World Bank's forest carbon fund, which is still failing to uphold the rights of forest peoples.

While the President of Guyana was named a “Champion of the Earth” by the UN earlier this year in relation to his efforts to secure international support for forest protection and “low carbon” growth, some indigenous leaders and civil society organisations both inside and outside the country continue to expose and challenge the deep contradictions in the government’s forest and climate plans. In June 2010, the President of the Amerindian Peoples Association (APA) made a strong statement to the Sixth Participant’s Committee meeting of the World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) in Georgetown, asking why key land rights issues raised repeatedly by APA have still not been addressed in the Guyana Forestry Commission’s (GFC) latest REDD+ readiness proposals.

NGO sign-on letter delivered to the sixth meeting of the governing body of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF)

Letter from Forest Peoples Programme (FPP) to the Secretariat of the World Bank's FCPF, providing further comments as a follow-up to FPP's previous submission of April 2010.(See original submission - April 2010 in the list of Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Evaluation related documents)

Submission to the FCPF secretariat and participants by six NGOs

Forest Peoples Programme's submission to the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, providing comments on the revised draft of the Proposed FCPF Evaluation framework (of 7 March 2010)

After 15 months in operation, and despite recent commitments to respect forest dwellers' rights, the FCPF is still not following its own standards and procedures. This briefing looks at the main issues and provides recommendations to remedy failings in the FCPF.FPP: Rights, forests and climate briefing series

Collective memorandum submitted to the Participants Committee of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) by a range of NGOs and indigenous peoples’ organisations, highlighting the key failures and weaknesses apparent in the World Bank's application of appropriate safeguard procedures in funding being provided through the FCPF

FPP Briefing

FPP Briefing

Statement by Victoria Tauli-Corpuz drawing attention to the need for full and effective consultation with indigenous peoples prior to the development of new initiatives and programmes impacting on them.

Statement delivered to World Bank and 32 governments expressing serious concerns over the Bank's proposals to establish a global forest carbon fund.