REDD+

REDD+ Safeguards Brief no. 5 (4 pages)

REDD+ Safeguards Brief no. 3 (4 pages)

Results-based financing of REDD+ is conditional on the implementation of national Safeguard Information Systems (SIS) to address social and environmental criteria that go beyond carbon. The briefs in this packet discuss the challenges of operationalizing safeguards from various perspectives – governance, benefit sharing, tenure, gender, biodiversity, technical monitoring – and highlight opportunities and strategies for […]

This study assessed the media coverage of the REDD+ mechanism in Peru’’s national and subnational newspapers to better understand the messages reaching Peruvian readers. At the national level, only 33 articles in eight national newspapers covered REDD+. (Working paper, 54 pages)

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the national REDD+ strategy and institutional capacity for MRV of REDD+ as well as the current state of knowledge of various elements critical to MRV of REDD+ in Zambia including: Current drivers and rates of deforestation and forest degradation; a review of standing biomass, forest growth rates and […]

This analysis suggests that there is still a lack of concrete approaches to mitigate the direct threats to forests; moreover, the control of illegal deforestation is still insufficient. We also note that in parallel to policies of nature conservation, there is a contradicting political agenda being implemented promoting the expansion of the agricultural frontier. (Occasional paper, […]