Overseas Development Institute
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Climate Change, Environment and Forests Programme (CCEF) House made of forest timber, Malana, Himachal Pradesh
House made of forest timber, Malana, Himachal Pradesh. Source: flickr/basoo!
Latest updates and events
The final report and policy brief for the 'Financing Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Africa: Key Issues and Options for Policy-Makers and Negotiators' are now available'
22 June 2009
REDD: An Options Assessment Report is now available.
11 May 2009
The final report for theBudget Support, Aid Instruments and the Environment - The Kenya context project has now been published
07 April 2009
Latest projects
Budget Support, Aid Instruments and the Environment - The Kenya context
International Climate Initiative website
Carbon Offsets: Researching Opportunities for poor rural communities
European development policy and climate change
Helping the rural poor to adapt to climate change: lessons from IFAD COSOPs
REDD Options Analysis Report
Social Assessment of Protected Areas
 

The Overseas Development Institute's Forests Environment and Climate Change programme seeks to inform the processes of policy change in tropical forestry in ways which improve the livelihoods and well-being of the forest-dependent poor, whilst also securing the long-term future of forest resources.

CCEF's work contributes to ODI's work on various key themes, including forestry, the environment and climate change, aid, gender and governance.

Research interests

CCEF's current research centres on:

CCEF's main publication outputs are the Forestry Briefing series, which present objective information on important development issues and the VERIFOR Briefing Papers on aspects of verification systems in the forest sector.

CCEF's current flagship project is the VERIFOR project, a research and advisory project with the aim of providing practical support to decision-makers who are developing systems to verify that timber and forest products are legally harvested. For more information visit the VERIFOR website

Latest resources
The future of climate change: a new approach is needed
ODI Opinion by Jessica Brown
Six Messages on Climate Change
Blog by Natasha Grist
The G-77 plus China alliance - what it means for the poorest countries
Blog by Jessica Brown
Climate finance: a clash of world views?
Blog by Neil Bird
A green stimulus to help developing countries cope with economic turmoil and climate change
Blog by Jessica Brown and Jodie Keane
The REDD road to Copenhagen: Readiness for what?
Opinion Paper by David Brown and Neil Bird
MDGs and the environment: Are environmental institutions 'fit for purpose'?

Opinion Papers by Neil Bird
Recent bilateral initiatives for climate financing: Are they moving in the right direction?
Opinion Paper by Neil Bird and Leo Peskett
VERIFOR case study coverThe experience of election observers: lessons for the process of timber verification
VERIFOR Comparative Case Study 6 by Cecilia Luttrell and Robert Nash
Forestry Briefing 14 coverThe implications of carbon financing for pro-poor community forestry
ODI Forestry Briefing 14 by Cecilia Luttrell, Kate Schreckenberg and Leo Peskett
NRP109 frontClimate change, agricultural policy and poverty reduction – how much do we know?
ODI Natural Resource Perspectives by Rachel Slater, Leo Peskett, Eva Ludi and David Brown