Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) Archives

Forest protection efforts earn Indonesia millions

25 Mar 2019

Norway to pay the country for its reduction in emissions

Green Climate Fund makes first payment to Brazil for efforts to reduce deforestation

27 Feb 2019

The payments come not without controversy and ideas for systemic improvement

Wildfire prevention and risk reduction for children’s health and wellbeing

15 Jun 2017

The 2015 El Nino event in Indonesia triggered what some have called “the worst environmental disaster of the 21st century.”

Time to step up for forests and peatlands

12 Jun 2017

Forests, fields, wetlands and other terrestrial ecosystems are major carbon stores, and they could absorb enormous additional amounts of carbon dioxide.

Preserving precious peat in the Congo Basin

18 May 2017

The DRC has the biggest forest in Central Africa. The peatland discovered in the Central Basin is important for its significant biodiversity.

Seeing the peat for the forests

04 May 2017

The destruction of forest cover on peatlands delivers a blow for carbon emissions with losses from standing biomass and from the drying of peat soils.

Time to get it together on mitigation and adaptation

25 Jan 2017

Because of the way international negotiations have separated adaptation from mitigation, two different communities of practices have emerged.

CIFOR and UNEP team up to work on sustainable landscapes

12 Jan 2017

A Memorandum of Understanding was signed by CIFOR and UNEP to foster joint action on promoting integrated landscape management and restoration.

From Paris to Marrakesh: Forests, climate change and REDD+ in Southeast Asia

07 Dec 2016

The world’s nations met at Marrakesh in 2016 to map out implementation of the Paris Agreement. The implications for Southeast Asia’s forests were discussed.