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Latest REDD+ News and Information: 3 April '15
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WWF |01/04-15
As part of the climate negotiation process led by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the member Parties of the UNFCCC must submit plans for how they will contribute to achieving the objective of the convention1 for reducing emissions before the UN climate change meeting in Paris later this year. 

Berkeley Lab | 01/04-15
Tropical forests play major roles in regulating Earth's climate, but there are large uncertainties over how they'll respond over the next 100 years as the planet's climate warms. An expansive new project led by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) aims to bring the future of tropical forests and the climate system into much clearer focus.

UCS | 01/04-15
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) scored the palm oil sourcing commitments of 40 consumer brand companies and found many - especially in the fast food and store brand sectors - have a long way to go to ensure their products do not contribute to deforestation.

WWF | 30/03-15
With assistance from WWF-Indonesia, the district governments of Kutai Barat and Mahakam Ulu approved a REDD+ strategic action plan in late 2014. The plan is a cumulative effort based on four years of collecting baseline data and testing the on-the-ground approaches to reducing deforestation and degradation in the East Kalimantan province.

WWF | 01/04-15
Last Friday, Mexico became the first developing country to formally submit its post-2020 climate change plans to the UN. It followed the European Union, Switzerland and Norway in laying out their commitments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.


Journal Articles & Publications

ODI | 2015
There is an increasing focus on the role that public and private resources can play in supporting activities that reduce forest loss as part of wider efforts to address climate change, and ensure sustainable development. There is an increasing focus on the role that public and private resources can play in supporting activities that reduce forest loss as part of wider efforts to address climate change, and ensure sustainable development.

Wageningen | 01/04-15
This article analyzes the increasing institutional and organizational complexity and fragmentation surrounding the international financing mechanism REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries and related forest activities), now being negotiated within the UNFCCC.


Other Info & Tools
Join this webinar organized by WWF's Forest and Climate Programme to learn about the benefits and challenges of developing closer alignment between the REDD+ and clean cookstoves and fuels. 

WWF | 31/03-15
Mona worked for much of the past year with the WWF-US private sector engagement team on supply chain risk analyses for their major corporate partners to help advance better sourcing. In her new role with the WWF forest team, she'll be helping link WWF's deep private sector experience and recent "deforestation free" commitments with climate finance and public policy work in places like Indonesia and Colombia.