Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+)

IIED at the COP18 UN climate summit

UN Climate change conference (COP 18/CMP8)
15 November 2012
Article
Climate change
Forests
Some researchers will attend the climate change talks and support the Least Developed country negotiators at this year’s climate conference while others will lead side events. Find out more.

What does low-carbon resilience look like in Latin America?

Flooded sugar cane fields near Colombia's third largest city, Cali, during an intense rainy season.
4 April 2013
Blog entry
Climate change
Forests
Many Latin American countries are showing how the pursuit of low-carbon strategies can create ‘win-win’ scenarios for economic growth and forest protection.

Investing in sustainable productivity could secure REDD+ schemes long term

A villager gathers medicinal bark in Mozambique
13 December 2012
Blog entry
Climate change
Forests
Natural resource management
Putting less emphasis on carbon payments and more on supporting sustainable enterprise could give REDD+ projects longer-term financial security.

REDD+: What is needed to make it work for the poor?

A man stands by a tree stump in Mozambique.
6 December 2012
Blog entry
Forests
Natural resource management
Policy and planning
While REDD+ is aimed at reducing emissions from forests, its effectiveness will depend on how much the benefits trickle down to those living closest to the forest.

We need more integrity between the treatment of forests at home and abroad

A large group of people sit under a tree and talk.
2 October 2012
Blog entry
Forests
Natural resource management
Does the treatment of forests at home influence what different donor nations prioritise and support abroad?

The value of valuing ecosystem services

Coral Reef. Economists at the BioEcon conference Credit: Magnus Manske (creative commons)
28 September 2012
Blog entry
Economics
Natural resource management
Economists continually fail to get the message across. Nowhere is this more evident than in dealing with ecosystem services.

When pigs fly: Why is including women in managing forests still so unusual?

Women discuss forest management at a Community Forest User Group meeting in Nepal.
24 September 2012
Blog entry
Food and agriculture
Forests
Women are routinely excluded from REDD decision-making processes, but if they’re excluded then they can’t benefit equally from its work.

Free, prior and informed consent in REDD+: going beyond the right to say ‘no’

Discussing free, prior and informed consent in REDD+
27 July 2012
Blog entry
Forests
How could obtaining the free prior, and informed consent of communities be applied to REDD+, a scheme that aims to compensate communities for keeping their forests standing?

Report calls for REDD+ to Invest in Forest Communities

Forested hills in Nepal, with a house in the foreground and forested hills, and then clouds behind.
16 May 2012
Media release
Climate change
Forests
Income generated from REDD+ should be given to forest communities to invest in their future, recommends a new report by The Forests Dialogue (TFD). Investing locally in this way should be part of understanding REDD+ as integral to broader development among forest-dependent communities.

Good forest governance is key to reducing climate change and poverty

26 March 2012
Media release
Forests
Governance

World Forest Day last week focused international attention on the urgency of better managing forests for food, fuel, climate change and natural disaster responses at a time when the stakes have never been higher.

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