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Concurrent Initiatives
The PRP will work alongside other governmental and non-governmental initiatives, including the critical UNFCCC process to complement and add to the work they are doing. Recent initiatives include:
- The Brazilian Government has announced the creation of a voluntary fund to protect the Amazon and the adoption of national targets to curb deforestation. Meanwhile the State of Amazonas is providing incentives to local communities to protect their forests.
- The Governors of the Aceh, Papua and West Papua provinces in Indonesia have pledged to conserve their rainforests and have appealed to the international community to provide financial incentives for them to do so.
- Guyana has offered to put its rainforests under the protection of the international community in exchange for compensation to forgo deforestation.
- Norway has committed about US$500m a year for five years to reducing global deforestation.
- The World Bank has launched its Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) which will pilot projects using a system of policy approaches and performance-based payments.
- Mandatory and voluntary markets are emerging in the USA, Australia and New Zealand, all of which explicitly provide for a wide range of forest-based credits.
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