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Peru’s first Summary of Safeguards Information was presented in April, 2020 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, outlining the progress the country has made with REDD+ safeguards and their application. This is an important...

A key pillar of the Paris Agreement is the Enhanced Transparency Framework which aims to raise ambitions for climate action through transparent country reporting. For forests, open and transparent data has enabled forest and climate action under REDD...

Forests underpin life on Earth. Globally, around 2.4 billion people or one third of the entire human population depend directly on forests for wood for cooking their daily meals. And we all depend on forests in less tangible ways to provide the...

Local communities are key forest stakeholders, and their involvement in decision-making and sustainable management generates positive outcomes for livelihoods, rural development and forest conservation. In Colombia, approximately one million people...

Local participation has been found to have positive implications for various aspects of REDD+, and forest monitoring is no exception. To maximise local people’s involvement in forest monitoring and the assessment of social impacts, the Government of...

The scene of women carrying leaves from “In” trees, or Dipterocarpus tuberculatus, back to their villages is quite common in rural Myanmar. The leaves are collected in forests and used by villagers for roofing and wrapping materials. The timber is...