If both the state government and a REDD+ project count the same area of the same forest as having "prevented deforestation," ...

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Indonesia is home to the world’s third-largest tropical forest area and since 2009 has operated a forest-based climate action project developed by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ...

As the world prepares for the 19 th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC-COP 19) in Warsaw, Poland this November, Josefina ...

Earlier this year, an Indonesian court found palm oil company PT Kallista Alam guilty of illegally draining and burning large swaths of the Tripa peat forest in the province of Aceh. The forest is ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A searchable database of 467 forest carbon emissions reduction (REDD+) initiatives in 57 countries is now available through the Center for ...

Critics have argued that the strategy known as REDD+, or reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, hasn’t adequately slowed emissions from forest loss in developing countries in ...

A participatory process to develop social and environmental REDD+ safeguards that incorporate the needs, rights and perspectives of the Afro-Colombian communities in Colombia’s Pacific region. WWF's ...

This working paper presents positive trends and overarching gaps in how countries designing programs to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) are proposing to address ...

An artificial canal has been dug around the border of a community forest within the Tumring REDD Project. -Tumring REDD Project PHNOM PENH: The registration of eight community forest areas, ...