Carlos Riano, author at EU REDD Facility

About Carlos Riano

Carlos coordinates the sustainable land-use investment and management and land use governance in Vietnam and Laos, contributing in particular to the EU funded Integrated Sustainable Landscape Management.

Carlos has a long track record of supporting partners countries in designing and implementing REDD+ and sustainable land use programmes. Since 2012, he has supported the development of the UN-REDD+ agenda in DRC, Uganda and Côte d´Ivoire, where he also collaborated with EFI. In 2017 he became UNDP´s REDD+ technical advisor in Cambodia from where he joined EFI in Kuala Lumpur. He has a technical background in GIS, remote sensing and forest carbon monitoring.

Entries by Carlos Riano

Reducing the bitterness of coffee from Vietnam’s Central Highlands

20 June 2022/by Carlos Riano

I love coffee in the morning, its taste, its aroma and the boost of energy it gives me to start the day. While enjoying a fresh brew some years ago, I began to think about what was behind my morning cup – where do the beans come from? What are the landscapes where they are produced like? And who are the people that harvest this coffee?

Latest blog posts

Satrio Wicaksono, EFITraining land-use planners for sustainable landscapes13 July 2022 - 5:59 pm
Landscapes around the world have experienced dramatic transformations in recent decades. Global supply chains link smallholder palm oil farmers in Indonesia with major retailers, like Lidl, Carrefour and Tesco, in Europe or cocoa growers in Ghana to chocolatiers in Belgium. The growing population of our globalised world has intensified pressure on land, soils, water and forests. Ensuring the health of these ecosystems is essential to address climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation to achieve sustainable development.
Reducing the bitterness of coffee from Vietnam’s Central Highlands20 June 2022 - 3:00 pm
I love coffee in the morning, its taste, its aroma and the boost of energy it gives me to start the day. While enjoying a fresh brew some years ago, I began to think about what was behind my morning cup – where do the beans come from? What are the landscapes where they are produced like? And who are the people that harvest this coffee?
Six ingredients of successful partnerships for legal and sustainable forest-risk commodities20 June 2022 - 1:46 pm
How can we ensure legal and sustainable value chains that unleash local wellbeing and protect forest and biodiversity without excluding smallholders? The answer may be in the mixing of six ingredients to whip up successful multistakeholder partnerships that can support legal and sustainable supply chains of forest-risk commodities.
Season’s greetings and 2021 in review31 December 2021 - 4:34 pm
As 2021 draws to a close, I’d like to take this opportunity to share some highlights from this year’s work by the EU REDD Facility. This year we celebrated the 10th anniversary of our founding, taking the opportunity to reflect on the lessons we learned over the last decade. We’re working to ensure these insights help to shape and accelerate action for protecting and restoring the world’s forests.
Gustavo FrazaoTracking private finance in tropical forest countries – COP26 side event12 November 2021 - 5:19 pm
On the second day of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, world leaders announced a pledge to save and restore our planet’s forests. With that deal came a long list of commitments from public and private sector actors to combat deforestation.
Jess KraftTaking stock of national climate plans: what’s in it for forests?4 November 2021 - 7:28 am
In the lead up to the adoption of the Paris Agreement on climate change in 2015, each country was asked to outline its post-2020 climate plans, known as their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). Taken collectively, the initial plans put forward by countries did not go far enough to reach the Agreement’s goal: to limit global average temperature rise to “well below” 2 ºC above pre-industrial levels, and to “pursue efforts” to limit it to 1.5 ºC.

About the EU REDD Facility

The EU REDD Facility supports countries in improving land-use governance as part of their efforts to slow, halt and reverse deforestation. It also supports the overall EU effort to reduce its contribution to deforestation in developing countries. The Facility focuses on countries that are engaged in REDD+, an international mechanism that incentivises developing countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from their forest and land-use sectors. The Facility is hosted by the European Forest Institute and was established in 2010.

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