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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...