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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 6 Feb. '15
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News Articles
WWF | 06/04-15
The Forest and Climate Programme policy team will participate in upcoming UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) intersessional talks in Geneva, Switzerland from 8 February through 13 February. The session signals the opening of the last push to the Paris climate summit in December 2015.

WWF | 05/04-15
Negotiators meeting at an upcoming round of climate talks need to adopt a business unusual approach in order to deliver the draft of a new global climate deal. The talks will take place in Geneva, Switzerland and are scheduled to run from 8 February through 13 February.

Mongabay | 05/02-15
A group convened by one of the world's leading scientific institutions has issued a call for greater protection of primary forests and more inclusive approaches to conservation. 

CBS | 04/02-15
The approach, known within the United Nations as REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation), makes sense on a lot of levels. It gets cash for conservation into the hands of poor countries and helps reduce deforestation, which contributes about 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions that lead to climate change.

CIFOR | 04/02-15
Concerns about gender equality and women's empowerment are re-emerging as part of the post-2015 development agenda on the global agenda. The recent United Nations Survey Report on the role of women in development makes a strong case for linking gender equality and sustainable development on the grounds that the "causes and underlying drivers of unsustainability and of gender inequality are deeply interlocked."

Scientific American | 03/02-15
A new study describes how this trend has seen agriculture overtake deforestation as the leading source of land-based greenhouse gas pollution during the past decade. While United Nations climate negotiations focus heavily on forest protections, the researchers note that delegates to the talks ignore similar opportunities to reform farming.


Journal Articles & Publications

Global Change Biology | 02-15
We refine the information available through the IPCC AR5 with regard to recent trends in global GHG emissions from agriculture, forestry and other land uses (AFOLU), including global emission updates to 2012. Using all three available AFOLU datasets employed for analysis in the IPCC AR5, rather than just one as done in the IPCC AR5 WGIII Summary for Policy Makers, our analyses point to a down-revision of global AFOLU shares of total anthropogenic emissions, while providing important additional information on subsectoral trends. (note: subscription required) 

WWF-Colombia | 2014
This document presents results of an initiative led by WWF-Colombia, with support from the German Cooperation Agency Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the Forest Carbon, Markets and Communities Program (FCMC), in conjunction with Colombia´s Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MADS), whose objective was to collectively develop guidelines for the construction of a National Social and Environmental Safeguard Scheme for REDD+ in Colombia. 

SNV | 2015
SNV has developed a Siting Tool to guide sustainable agricultural development in forest-agriculture landscapes, taking into account biophysical suitability and conservation values as well as the impacts of climate change. The tool has been tested in North Sumatra, Indonesia, to formulate recommendations on the development of four commodities driving land use change - coffee, cocoa, palm oil and rubber.

Other Info & Tools

WWF | 19/02-15
In this session, presenters from the WWF Forest and Climate Programme and the Global Canopy Programme will highlight the relevance of community-based monitoring, reporting and verification, share tools and technologies that can make it more effective, discuss the enabling conditions that help make it successful, and wrap up with some key lessons learned. Register for the Webinar Here.