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Bob Kazungu’s decades-long conservation journey, which began as a boy collecting fire wood and wild honey from forests near his family’s rural home in eastern Uganda, will take him to the Amazonian city of Belem for COP 30 later this month. Kazungu...

As the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) opens in Belem do Para, Brazil next week, the UN-REDD Programme is underscoring the urgent need to scale up finance and action to protect and restore the world’s forests, our most powerful natural ally in...

UN-REDD has created a web page to distils practical lessons from recent jurisdictional experiences with ART-TREES validation and verification(V&V). It supports government counterparts and technical teams, including program managers, Monitoring...

Forest-based climate action will only succeed if it is credible and delivered at scale. I recently participated in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) Second National Forum on Carbon Markets, organized by Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)...

As the world prepares for COP30 in Belem, Brazil, the UN-REDD Programme has launched two landmark reports that lay out a clear call to action: it’s time to triple global investments in forests and recognize their vast co-benefits for people...

Ethiopian President Taye Atske Selassie (center) with AU Commission Chairperson Mahamoud Ali Youssouf (fourth from right), UNFCCC Deputy Executive Secretary Noura Hamladji (in white), and Ethiopia's Planning Minister Fitsum Assefa (second from right)...

©FAO/Maryia Kukharava - Agroforestry cocoa farm in Côte d’Ivoire, where reforestation and forest protection are boosting harvests and bringing sustainable economic benefits to local communities. Deforestation and forest degradation are among the most...

Forests are central to tackling climate change, protecting biodiversity, and sustaining livelihoods. Yet across Africa, the challenge is to ensure that communities who safeguard forests are fairly rewarded, and that benefits go beyond conservation to...

Across Ghana’s shea-growing communities, women are leading a quiet revolution. The Green Climate Fund financed Ghana Shea Landscape Emission Reductions Project (GSLERP), led by the Forestry Commission of Ghana, in partnership with the Global Shea...

Summary: Despite promising results, results-based payments can be further improved to deliver both climate action and sustainable development. Halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation is critical to tackling climate change and...

Ethiopia is one of Africa’s most climate-vulnerable countries, facing devastating droughts, land degradation, and increasing pressure on its natural resources from a growing population. But the country is also rich in forest resources - particularly...