Resources

Browse and download our latest resources related to ecosystem services. Simply scroll down the list to browse the available files or click on the links below to jump directly to your category of interest.

News releases
ITTO Environmental Services projects: Call for nominations

23 October 2008
Spotlight on tropical forests’ climate change role

25 April 2008

YOKOHAMA, JAPAN
US$10.1 million in new funds for tropical forests

10 November 2007

Yokohama, Japan
China considers accounting for forest benefits

9 March 2004

Beijing, China
ITTO project to seek new funds for sustainable forest management

20 September 2000

Yokohama, Japan
Reports
Energy grows on trees

November 2008

This report summarizes the presentations and discussions made at the The International Conference on Wood-based Bioenergy held in Hannover, Germany, May 2007 as part of LIGNA 2007, the world’s premier exhibition of wood industry technologies. It also includes Powerpoint slides presented by speakers and the conclusions drawn and recommendations made by conference participants. It constitutes the proceedings of the conference.
Tropical forests and climate change

1 October 2008

This report summarizes the deliberations of the International Expert Meeting on Addressing Climate Change through Sustainable Management of Tropical Forests, which met for three days in Yokohama, Japan, in May/June 2008. The meeting fully endorsed the potential role of sustainable forest management in the tropics in both mitigating climate change and helping communities adapt to it.
Guidebook for the formulation of afforestation and reforestation projects under the Clean Development Mechanism

2006

The CDM project cycle is very demanding on project developers, involving project design and development, validation, registration, monitoring, verification and certification. This publication describes the conceptual and procedural details for formulating afforestation and reforestation projects under the CDM with an introduction to the Kyoto Protocol and the CDM.
Status of tropical forest management 2005

2006

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the forest management situation in all 33 of ITTO's producer member countries. Using information submitted by the countries themselves and supplemented by data from a wide range of other sources, it addresses the policy and institutional settings in each country, the approaches taken to the allocation and management of resources, and the status of management of those resources.
For services rendered

June 2004

This report describes the current status and future potential of markets for the ecosystem services provided by tropical forests.
TFU_Articles
Mapping Mbalmayo Forest

2008 No 2
Meetings

2008 No 2
Forest certification in Indonesia

2007 No 3
On the conference circuit

2007 No 2
Meetings

2007 No 2
Recent editions

2007 No 1
Meetings

2007 No 1
Meetings

2006 No 3
Palms deserve a big hand

2006 No 2
Meetings

2005 No 4
What will we want from the forests?

2005 No 1
Out on a limb

2005 No 1
On the conference circuit

2005 No 1
Meetings

2005 No 1
Managing mangroves

2004 No 4
Out on a limb

2004 No 4
Recent editions

2004 No 4
Recent editions

2004 No 3
For services rendered

2004 No 2
Joining up to stop desertification

2004 No 2
On the conference circuit

2004 No 2
Small change from climate-change negotiations?

2004 No 1
On the conference circuit

2004 No 1
Restoring forest landscapes

2002 No 4
Point of view

2002 No 4
Point of view

2002 No 3
Fellowship report

2002 No 2
Point of View: Enriching the forests to enrich the poor?

2001 No 4
Brochures
Not by thoughts alone

April 2002

The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Government of Congo are working together to protect the forest home of lowland gorillas and other threatened wildlife. Good intentions, put into action.