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Content: Demand-side measures
Linking supply and demand-side measures Many major agricultural commodities such as beef, soy, sugar and palm oil drive deforestation in tropical countries. There is a growing awareness that in...
Content: Measuring, monitoring, reporting and verification
Measuring, monitoring, reporting and verification The successful implementation of a results-based payment scheme such as REDD+ depends on the credible measurement and reporting of performance....
Content: Safeguards
Safeguards Safeguards in REDD+ help to address national forest governance shortcomings and mitigate any potential adverse social and environmental effects that could prevent REDD+ from...
Content: Transparency and access to information
Transparency and access to information A lack of information on the management of natural resources and commodity flows is one of the factors driving corruption, illegal activities and...
Content: Institutions
Legal and institutional frameworks FLEGT and REDD+ initiatives both involve work to improve legal clarity, and to strengthen institutional frameworks and capacities to: Increase...
Content: Effective multistakeholder processes
Effective multistakeholder processes Multistakeholder participatory processes are fundamental to good land-use governance. For complex issues such as natural resource management, where there...
Content: Benefits
Benefits REDD+ can support and benefit from an EU initiative called FLEGT, which stands for forest law enforcement, governance and trade. The EU developed its FLEGT Action Plan in response...
Content: Major bilateral and multilateral initiatives
Major bilateral and multilateral initiatives Much of the support for REDD+ preparations, investments and result-based payments comes from the development and cooperation budgets of donor...
Content: How REDD+ developed
How REDD+ developed REDD+ was created through international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Initially, the negotiations focused on...
Content: Drivers of deforestation and forest degradation
Drivers of deforestation and forest degradation Forest degradation Human activities that drive forest degradation include overgrazing, demand for fuel wood and charcoal, excessive logging...
Content: Honduras
Honduras About 40% of the land area of Honduras is covered by forests (approximately 4.5 million hectares), just 10% of which is primary forest. The country has experienced a high rate of...
Content: Laos
Laos Laos has a great variety of tropical forest ecosystems distributed over mountains, plateaus and plains. Laos designates three main forest categories which are owned by the State and...
Content: Guyana
Guyana Guyana has one of the highest proportions of forest cover in the world and a low deforestation rate. Over 80% of Guyana’s land area is covered by forests (approximately 1.6 million...
Content: Vietnam
Vietnam More than 40% of Vietnam’s land area is classified as forest, and it is one of the 20 most biodiverse countries globally. As a result of the nation’s ambitious reforestation and...
Content: Indonesia
Indonesia Indonesia is home to the third largest area of tropical forests in the world after Brazil and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its forests contain some of the world’s most...
Content: Republic of the Congo
Republic of the Congo About 65% of the Republic of the Congo is covered in dense rainforest. It has a large area of forest (approximately 22 million hectares) and a low historical rate of...
Content: Côte d’Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire Between 1960 and 2017, Côte d'Ivoire's forest cover declined from 12 million hectares to less than 3 million hectares as agriculture, cocoa production in particular, expanded....
Content: DRC
Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is one of the world’s largest rainforest nations with some 152 million hectares of forest - almost 70% of the...
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