Climate change

REDD+ Safeguards Brief no. 5 (4 pages)

By Peter Holmgren, Director General Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), orginally posted at DG’s blog Few people in development and environment circles could have missed that this year will see a confluence of global agreement-making. Following a 43-year process from Stockholm 1972, through Rio 1992 and Rio+20 in 2012, the post-2015 development agenda is maturing and will be the highlight at the UN […]

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 policy brief describes the interconnections between climate change and biodiversity. It highlights the importance of considering biodiversity within climate change policies, programmes and projects, and presents potential opportunities for doing so.

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)