Key messages
- Deforestation and forest degradation are complex problems with many connected social, economic and environmental challenges. Reversing deforestation can only be addressed through sustainable land-use management and improved social cohesion.
- REDD+ provides incentives to developing countries to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
- Improved efforts are needed to boost confidence in carbon markets as potential sources of finance in Indonesia.
- Multi-level governance and private sector involvement are crucial to success in DRC.
- Vietnam aims to expand REDD+ to mangrove and wetland environmental services.
- Peru reduces deforestation and now includes peatlands in its REDD+ focus.
- Brazil needs a high-level commitment to REDD+ and a major reduction in deforestation in order to meet its climate goals.
Download:
- A Global Comparative Study for achieving effective, efficient and equitable REDD+ results
- From Climate Research to Action under Multilevel Governance: Building Knowledge and Capacity at Landscape Scale (MLG)
- Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety – Germany (BMU)
Publisher
Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Publication year
2021
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Project Leader
Amy Duchelle
Team Leader, Climate Change, Energy & Low-Carbon Development
Christopher Martius
Bonn Hub Leader & Managing Director of CIFOR Germany