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After receiving USD 50 million from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions between 2015 and 2017, Paraguay + Verde, a REDD+ project that seeks to generate further reductions through the implementation of the National...

Uganda has continued its efforts to finalize Warsaw Framework elements by working to complete its Safeguards Information System (SIS). In 2022 under the leadership of the Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE) the country achieved important...

San Antonio de Calarma Pijao Indigenous Reservation (@FAO) Since 2018, Colombia’s Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development has been promoting community forestry (CF) as an approach to sustainable forest management, and significant progress...

Working together (@FAO) Countries are undertaking efforts to strengthen their National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS) to generate high-integrity forest data that meet the technical requirements of new carbon standards (ART-TREES, VCS-JNR). High...

Woman planting seedlings at a model farm in Cote d'Ivoire (@UN-REDD) Almost ten years after the release of concluding guidance on policy approaches and incentives to foster forest-solutions that contribute to climate change mitigation through REDD+...

Protecting, conserving and restoring forests makes a substantial contribution towards achieving the Paris Agreement, as emphasized by the Glasgow Climate Pact (UNFCCC 2022). According to a report launched at COP26, nature-based solutions implemented...

Woman working in the rice paddies (@AIPP) A new study reveals that Nationally Determined Contributions, a cornerstone of the international framework aimed at addressing climate change, are likely to fail unless indigenous peoples’ rights to their...

In 2021, Farmstrong received funding from UNEP to start the first phase of an ambitious forest restoration project covering 1,000 hectare of the sacred Forêt Classée du Mont Kourabahi. Over 16,000 farmers and their families are benefitting from this...

(@ Asociación de Forestería Comunitaria Utz Che) In 2014, the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) ​was adopted as a political declaration calling for the end of natural forest loss and the restoration of 350 million hectares of degraded...

Forests have become a permanent fixture in climate discussions, from their inclusion in the Paris Agreement to the recent Glasgow Leader’s Declaration on Forests and Land Use at COP26. These ecosystems provide vital solutions for halting global...

Carbon rights and the guardians of forests: A key axiom for REDD+ to succeed Catalyzing change with gender-responsive, climate-forest finance Assigning forest carbon rights is crucial for any effective REDD+ system. Often linked to debates about...

(@ UNDP Panama) Acknowledging the catalytic power that climate finance can have on gender equality and women’s empowerment in the forest sector, UNDP and the UN-REDD Programme collaborated on an event in March, 2022 to highlight good practice...