Acre, Brazil: A story of deforestation, reduced deforestation, and now REDD

This post takes a brief look at the history of deforestation in Acre and how the REDD programme in Acre came into being. In 2010, the state of Acre in Brazil set up the world’s first jurisdictional REDD programme. The state of Acre’s initial plan for REDD was to focus on seven or eight priority areas of high deforestation risk. According to CIFOR, this plan was abandoned “after an extensive stakeholder consultation process during the development of SISA in 2009 and 2010?.