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Options for REDD+ action: What are their effects on forests and people? An...
Putting REDD+ into practice can involve a broad range of actions that change the management of forest and other lands. Depending on what is done and how, these actions can have... -
REDD+ and the 2020 Aichi Biodiversity Targets: Promoting synergies in...
This Policy Brief explores the scope for complementarities and synergies in actions under the two Conventions, and illustrates through case studies some ways in which developing... -
Strengthening Benefits From REDD+ For Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services And...
A wide range of tools and resources is available to assist decision-makers and their advisors in planning for REDD+ implementation. As these materials have been developed with... -
Methods for assessing and monitoring change in the ecosystem-derived...
Forests provide a number of ecosystem services, which REDD+ activities including afforestation, reforestation and forest restoration have the potential to promote. On the other... -
Making Biodiversity Safeguards for REDD+ Work in Practice
The negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) about a REDD+ mechanism, which would provide incentives for developing countries to... -
Carbon, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services: Exploring Co-benefits Cambodia
Spatial analyses relating to co-benefits can provide key information to support planning and decision-making on REDD+ at national and sub-national scales. To do so, they should... -
WDPA marine and coastal reclassification
As of March 2015, the 'MARINE' field in the WDPA accepts three values to better identify terrestrial, coastal and marine protected areas: 0 (site is entirely terrestrial), 1... -
A Safer Bet for REDD+: Review of the Evidence on the Relationship Between...
Increasing resilience is one way in which biodiversity conservation might benefit REDD+ (it is already clear that, overall, REDD+ can be expected to benefit conservation,... -
Alignment of criteria identifying areas of biodiversity importance and...
This technical briefing note discusses the alignment of criteria triggering Critical Habitat, with the selection criteria for 19 established site-scale and regional-scale... -
What are the ecosystem-derived benefits of REDD+ and why do they matter?
The paper provides an analysis of the ecosystem-derived multiple benefits of REDD+. The terminology around multiple benefits is not yet clear cut. Here, the different terms in... -
Securing Tropical Forest Carbon: The Contribution Of Protected Areas To REDD
This paper combines up-to-date, spatially explicit data for the humid tropics on carbon stocks within biomass (Ruesch & Gibbs, Reference Ruesch and Gibbs2008) and soil... -
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
This technical briefing note summarises key considerations to take when working with data deficiency in global biodiversity spatial datasets. The Proteus Technical Briefing Note... -
Monitoring For REDD+: Carbon Stock Change And Multiple Benefits
Forests provide a number of ecosystem services including biodiversity, which could be added multiple benefits to the climate change mitigation potential arising from... -
Safeguarding And Enhancing The Ecosystem-Derived Benefits Of REDD+
This paper focuses on the key opportunities to safeguard and enhance ecosystem-derived benefits within REDD+, concentrating on the direct impacts on these benefits of decisions.... -
Implications Of The REDD Negotiations For Forest Restoration
The REDD concept has now expanded to REDD+, encompassing also “conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks”. This opens an... -
Global Congruence of Carbon Storage and Biodiversity in Terrestrial Ecosystems
Conversion of natural ecosystems is the second largest source of human-induced climate change, accounting for 17–20% of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions (Gullison et al.... -
Carbon Markets and Forest Conservation: A Review of the Environmental...
There are two specific reasons why measures to address co-benefits from REDD are important. First, attention to co-benefits can strengthen REDD’s performance as a climate... -
Protected Areas: An Effective Tool to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation...
Successful implementation of REDD is likely to require the reduction of deforestation rates on a national scale. Designation of new protected areas and strengthening of the... -
The Costs and Benefits of Forest Protected Areas for Local Livelihoods: A...
Protected areas could play a significant role in the implementation of schemes to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) in developing countries, through... -
The State of Biodiversity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Global Biodiversity Outlook-4, the mid-term review of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, provided a global assessment of progress towards the attainment of the...