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Now is the time to stop detrimental behavior and opt for clean choices In these difficult times, due to the current pandemic, it is important to recognize the role that nature-based solutions, particularly ecosystem conservation and restoration, can...

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...

The degradation and loss of forests and biodiversity is a contributing factor to disrupting nature’s balance and increasing the risks of human epidemic diseases in general. The COVID-19 pandemic is a deep and lasting shock at global level; we all...

In April and May, The UN-REDD Programme hosted 6 webinars on key issues related to investments in nature-based solutions with a focus on forest conservation and restoration. Called “Charting our Carbon Future: opportunities for corporate mitigation...

Forests are a pre-eminent nature-based solution to the climate emergency. If deforestation is stopped and damaged forests are restored, they can provide around a third of the carbon reduction needed. UN-REDD is a flagship UN partnership between FAO...

The second Resource newsletter this year reaches you in a changed world, a world in crisis, with the Covid-19 pandemic driving it home how forest loss and degradation contribute to the spread of diseases. The destruction of forest ecosystems through...

This article was first published in Spanish in the magazine Indualimentos in 2019. In La Araucanía, more specifically in the Mapuche Community of Quinquén, which is a beneficiary of Chile’s National UN-REDD Programme, efforts are made to revalue and...

The REDD+ Academy is the UN-REDD Programme's capacity development initiative. As part of the Programme's knowledge management support to partner countries, it seeks to enable systematic, focused capacity development to deliver REDD+ on the ground...