Past Events

Food security, tenure security and the forest-agriculture interface: community forestry in Burma

Date: 
Friday, February 17, 2012 - 16:15
Location: 
A J Herbertson Room, OUCE, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY

OCTF seminar followed by drinks

Speaker: Dr Oliver Springate-Baginski, School of International Development, University of East Anglia

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Abstract: Burma (Myanmar) is currently emerging from almost half a century of severe military dictatorship. In a country comprising over 50% forested landscapes, the status of forest governance and forest rights are central to the democratisation process.

Good governance and protected area effectiveness

Date: 
Friday, February 10, 2012 - 16:15
Location: 
A J Herbertson Room, OUCE, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QY

OCTF seminar followed by drinks

Speaker: Johanna Eklund, Metapopulation Research Group, University of Helsinki

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Conference: Climate change, deforestation and the future of African rainforests

Date: 
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 - 09:00 - Friday, January 6, 2012 - 17:00
Location: 
Oriel College, Oxford
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The Oxford Centre for Tropical Forests is hosting a conference that provides a multidisciplinary examination of the fate of African tropical forests in the 21st century. This meeting is made possible with generous support from the Waterloo Foundation and the Oxford Martin School.

To view presentations and download podcasts from this conference, please visit the conference website.

OCTF seminar - "Implementing REDD: an overview of activities, markets and investments"

Date: 
Friday, November 25, 2011 - 16:15 - 18:30
Location: 
A J Herbertson Room, School of Geography and the Environment, OUCE, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY

OCTF seminar followed by drinks

Speaker: Jan Fehse, Independent Consultant

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The final talk in the OCTF Michaelmas Term 2011 seminar series will discuss what actual and potential activities can be implemented both on the national and project level to reduce emissions from and enhance carbon stocks in tropical forests. It will discuss financing mechanisms (public and market-based) and how these determine current investments into activities. Examples will be given from the presenter’s own experience in developing countries.

OCTF seminar: Is it time for REDD+ ‘version 2’? Insights into governing forests through carbon from the first round of REDD+

Date: 
Friday, November 18, 2011 - 16:15 - 18:30
Location: 
A J Herbertson Room, School of Geography & the Environment, OUCE, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY

OCTF seminar followed by drinks

Speaker: Leo Peskett, freelance consultant and Research Associate with the Overseas Development Institute

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‘Avoided deforestation’ came into the international climate change negotiations in 2006 and rapidly rose to the top of the agenda, evolving as it did so to REDD and then REDD+ (‘reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation, and fostering conservation, sustainable management of forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks’). In late 2011 there is now talk of a ‘REDD+ version 2.0’ based on early experience and wider political and economic shifts.

OCTF seminar: Conservation-development trade-offs and the challenge of translating conservation science into policy: some insights from the Brazilian Amazon

Date: 
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 16:15 - 18:30
Location: 
A J Herbertson Room, School of Geography & the Environment, OUCE, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY

Speaker: Toby Gardner (NERC Fellow and Darwin College Research Fellow, Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge) and Joice Ferreira (Researcher, Embrapa Amazonia Oriental, Belem).

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With rare exceptions rural development across the tropics translates into the conversion of native forests and a subsequent process of land-use intensification. Understanding the nature and strength of trade-offs between development activities, biodiversity conservation and ecosystem service production is therefore central to the challenge of creating sustainable rural economies.

OCTF seminar: Evidence-based policy for good governance in REDD: is there a role for systematic reviews?

Date: 
Friday, November 4, 2011 - 16:15 - 18:30
Location: 
A J Herbertson Room, School of Geography & the Environment, OUCE, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY

Speaker: Gillian Petrokofsky, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford

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With global carbon credits valued at over US$100 billion/year, accounting under REDD will drive demand for high quality forest monitoring systems. The choice of system to adopt should be guided by good science. There is a growing body of scientific and technical information on ground-based and remote sensing methods of carbon measurement. The adequacy and comparability of different national systems for forest carbon measurement under REDD have not been fully evaluated.

Seminar: "Monitoring and MRV for REDD+: Linking International Policy to Country Implementation"

Date: 
Friday, October 21, 2011 - 16:15 - 19:00
Location: 
A J Herbertson Room, School of Geography and the Environment, OUCE, South Parks Road, Oxford

Speaker: Joel Scriven, PhD, UN-REDD Programme, Forestry Department, FAO of the United Nations

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Seminar: "The Forest Law and the expansion of agriculture in Brazil"

Date: 
Friday, October 14, 2011 - 16:15 - 19:00
Location: 
A J Herbertson Room, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford

Speaker: Luis Fernando Guedes Pinto, Visiting Research Associate, OCTF/ECI and Manager of Agriculture Certification, Imaflora, Brazil

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Seminar: Advances in Ecosystem Services Science, Policy and Markets – a conversation between academics and practitioners in the emerging ecosystem services sector

Date: 
Friday, September 30, 2011 - 09:00 - 14:00
Location: 
Andrew Cormack seminar room, Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HP

Half day seminar followed by lunch

Programme

9:00am Welcome: ‘Ecosystem Services and the broader Innovation Ecosystem’ – Marc Ventresca, InSIS

9:15am ‘Quantifying risk to ecosystem services in Amazonia: the case of Amazon forest dieback’ – David Galbraith, Environmental Change Institute

9:45am ‘Social equity in PES: What does it mean and how might we address it?’ – Connie McDermott, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford