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Recording can be accessed here Despite the tremendous mitigation potential offered by tropical forests, this solution to the climate crisis remains underfunded. In the context of increasing public-private efforts to mobilize transformative finance to...

Humanity depends on the critical resources provided by the Earth’s landscapes and ecosystems: food, fibre, wood, energy, water and medicines. However, the extraction of these resources is often linked to changes in land use patterns, with...

In 2020, thanks to the UN-REDD Programme’s continuous support, Costa Rica became the first Central American country recognised by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for successfully removing 14.7 million metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent between 2014-2015...

The V Executive Board Meeting included a specific session to discuss scaling up REDD+ finance as a necessary, though not sufficient, condition to achieve forest mitigation ambitions. Bringing deforestation and forest degradation down to zero by 2030...

The value of community stewardship in sustainable forest management is widely recognized. In Kenya, community engagement is the bulwark of the government’s strategy to achieve 10 percent tree cover by 2022. As this target date is fast approaching...

Carbon rights or emission reduction (ER) titles have been defined in different ways, often leaving a very simple question unanswered: who owns carbon sequestered through REDD+ actions? Governments? Communities who implement REDD+ projects? Landowners...

Land tenure security is widely recognized as a key condition for reducing deforestation and forest degradation. But clarifying and securing land tenure rights can be a complex and challenging process, particularly in countries with customary systems...

Phnom Dek, Preah Vihear, Cambodia - Mrs. Tun Kiem works at her 1,5 Ha. intercropping plot which has been assigned to her by the forest community. Mrs. Tun Kien can grow soybeans to sustain her family livelihood either by own consumption or selling...

Only a few months ago headlines around the world were announcing that deforestation in the Amazon had reached its highest annual rate in a decade. For years, the Amazon forest has been losing territory to legal and illegal agricultural expansion and...

by Frances Seymour (adapted from remarks to the UN-REDD Executive Board Meeting – 16 September 2021) A huge amount of private sector money is poised to invest in credits for forest-based emissions reductions and removals. For various reasons...

The global food system on which we all rely has grown, in part, at the expense of forests. The expansion of commercial and subsistence agriculture is responsible for more than 70% of tropical deforestation, yet agriculture depends upon forests for...