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High level panel on Forests in NDCs: Operationalizing REDD+ in the region
Article 5 of the Paris Climate Agreement recognizes Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) as a positive incentive mechanism, as well as an important mitigation action in the forestry sector. This APRS High Level Panel will focus on sharing lessons from REDD+ implementation in the Asia-Pacific region, and will discuss the effectiveness and future of REDD+ as part of efforts to enhance countries’ forests contributions to achieve their target nationally determined contributions (NDCs).
High level panel on forests in NDCs
The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) outline a country’s transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilience future. Understanding the role of forests and other land-based sectors’ contributions to the achievement of NDC targets is important as is understanding the balanced use of natural resources for economic, social and ecological purposes.
The role of forests and their guardians in mitigating climate change has been brought to the forefront by recent discussions about long-term global goals for reducing emissions, culmulating in a new global agreement set at COP 21 in Paris, named the Paris Agreement.
High level panel on Forests in NDCs
The Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) outline a country’s transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilience future. Understanding the role of forests and other land-based sectors’ contributions to the achievement of NDC targets is important as is understanding the balanced use of natural resources for economic, social and ecological purposes.
Secrets of the Mutis Honey Hunters
In the Mount Mutis valley in West Timor, Indonesia, there lives a people with a tradition of hunting. They do not hunt deer or wild boar. They are HONEY HUNTERS. This story is about the ‘Secrets of the Mutis Honey Hunters’!
Read the children’s book [Indonesian]: https://www.cifor.org/library/6673/rahasia-pemburu-madu-mutis/
Find out more on CIFOR’s Forests News: https://forestsnews.cifor.org/43871/a-living-tradition-with-sweet-rewards?fnl=en
What’s happening to our forests?
In honor of this year’s International Day of Forests on 21 March, Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) Robert Nasi gives Forests News a brief rundown on what’s happening in different forests around the world, the importance of private investment in restoration and CIFOR’s unique role in all of it.
High level panel on forests in NDCs
High level panel on Forests in NDCs
Secrets of the Mutis Honey Hunters
