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Photo Credit: AFP/Valentin Flauraud Every year, humanity clears 10 million hectares of forests, an area equivalent to the size of Portugal. The loss of these ecosystems is devastating for wildlife and the billions of people who rely on forests for...

Participants including UN-REDD and AFF specialists pose for a group photo outside the event venue Many African countries have embraced REDD+ (Reducing of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) but there are still many untapped economic...

El evento reunió a 66 representantes de varios países de Latinoamérica y la cooperación internacional Del 24 al 25 de abril en Lima, Perú, tuvo lugar el taller regional “Experiencias y avances frente a la implementación de las reglamentaciones de...

Photo credit: ©UNDP In recent years, new initiatives and revised standards aimed at addressing significant shortcomings in environmental integrity of carbon credits have emerged. Social integrity, including respect for Indigenous Peoples’ rights...

Photo credit: © FAO/Luis Tato Many stakeholders recognize the need to address concerns related to gender and forestry to ensure sustainable forest management and equitable benefit sharing. Such concerns may include the need to include women in forest...

A worker from the Tanzanian Forest Service, grafting tree seedlings at a TFS Tree Nursery & Seed Centre in Tanzania Photo credit: © FAO/Luis Tato Many stakeholders recognize the need to address concerns related to gender and forestry to ensure...

Planting fruit trees with students at Makereka Primary School, Nyandarua County, Kenya. © Wachira Njari L’ambition mondiale de restaurer les terres déboisées et dégradées a augmenté au cours de la dernière décennie, car les gens ont reconnu le rôle...

Planting fruit trees with students at Makereka Primary School, Nyandarua County, Kenya. © Wachira Njari La ambición global de restaurar tierras deforestadas y degradadas ha ido en aumento durante la última década, ya que las personas han reconocido...

An acacia tree forest © FAO/Joan Manuel Baliellas Within the UN-REDD Programme, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is working with various stakeholders and institutions in the Lower Mekong Region (LMR) to enhance forest...

Ghana policy actors, African Forest Forum and UN-REDD Specialists pose for a group photo outside the venue Ghana’s regional leadership in embracing Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) to help reduce deforestation and...

A brief of the fourth session of the Working Group on Safeguards and Integrity for UN-REDD Programme in Latin America and the Caribbean. Safeguards Information Summaries As countries prepare to submit their Safeguards Information Summaries (Sol) - a...

Photo credit: FAO Viet Nam. In the Lower Mekong region, contrasting agricultural practices across the borders of Lao PDR and Viet Nam encapsulate the nuanced challenges and achievements of REDD+ after fifteen years of implementation. Let's start with...