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Action for REDD+ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) can contribute towards achieving the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, and vice versa....

A new UN-REDD Programme Info Brief examines “REDD+ and adaptation: Identifying complementary responses to climate change”. The brief highlights the complementarities and...

According to the latest estimate from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2013), land-use change, largely from deforestation, has accounted for an estimated...

The report lays out recommendations to deliver the new integrated REDD+ and Green Economy approach, including better coordination, stronger private sector engagement, changes in...

The potential social and environmental benefits of implementing REDD+actions in a certain location are influenced by a range of factors, including the biophysical, geographic,...

Those who are involved in the development of REDD+ strategies need to consider not only the legal regulations and policies that have been created specifically for REDD+, but...

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...

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...

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...

Forests provide a number of ecosystem services, which REDD+ activities including afforestation, reforestation and forest restoration have the potential to promote. On the other...

The negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) about a REDD+ mechanism, which would provide incentives for developing countries to...

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...

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...

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,...

This technical briefing note discusses the alignment of criteria triggering Critical Habitat, with the selection criteria for 19 established site-scale and regional-scale...

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...

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...

This technical briefing note summarises key considerations to take when working with data deficiency in global biodiversity spatial datasets. The Proteus Technical Briefing Note...

Forests provide a number of ecosystem services including biodiversity, which could be added multiple benefits to the climate change mitigation potential arising from...

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....