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article / Mon, 01 Nov, 2021

A community approach to combat climate change in Kenya

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The value of community stewardship in sustainable forest management is widely recognized. In Kenya, community engagement is the bulwark of the government’s strategy to achieve 10 percent tree cover by 2022. As this target date is fast approaching...

article / Mon, 01 Nov, 2021

Who owns forest carbon?

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Carbon rights or emission reduction (ER) titles have been defined in different ways, often leaving a very simple question unanswered: who owns carbon sequestered through REDD+ actions? Governments? Communities who implement REDD+ projects? Landowners...

article / Mon, 01 Nov, 2021

Introducing the Open Tenure tool in the DRC

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Land tenure security is widely recognized as a key condition for reducing deforestation and forest degradation. But clarifying and securing land tenure rights can be a complex and challenging process, particularly in countries with customary systems...

article / Mon, 01 Nov, 2021

Governments play vital role in enabling forest-positive agriculture

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Phnom Dek, Preah Vihear, Cambodia - Mrs. Tun Kiem works at her 1,5 Ha. intercropping plot which has been assigned to her by the forest community. Mrs. Tun Kien can grow soybeans to sustain her family livelihood either by own consumption or selling...

article / Mon, 01 Nov, 2021

Financing tropical forest protection requires working together

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Only a few months ago headlines around the world were announcing that deforestation in the Amazon had reached its highest annual rate in a decade. For years, the Amazon forest has been losing territory to legal and illegal agricultural expansion and...

article / Mon, 01 Nov, 2021

Accelerating Finance for large-scale forest conservation and restoration: Opportunities & challenges

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by Frances Seymour (adapted from remarks to the UN-REDD Executive Board Meeting – 16 September 2021) A huge amount of private sector money is poised to invest in credits for forest-based emissions reductions and removals. For various reasons...

article / Sat, 30 Oct, 2021

Reconciling forestry and agriculture

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The global food system on which we all rely has grown, in part, at the expense of forests. The expansion of commercial and subsistence agriculture is responsible for more than 70% of tropical deforestation, yet agriculture depends upon forests for...

glossary / Wed, 13 Oct, 2021

Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security (VGGT)

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document / Tue, 05 Oct, 2021

Annual report 2019

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This annual report presents the results of the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD) through 2019, building on and continuing a progressive series of policy, institutional and knowledge achievements in countries and across the world at the nexus between climate and forests since its launch in 2008.

document / Tue, 05 Oct, 2021

Annual report 2018

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The 2018 Annual Report presents the results of the United Nations Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD) between January and December 2018, and the key cumulative achievements since the programme’s launch in 2008.

multimedia / Sun, 26 Sep, 2021

How to survive when rain and forests dwindle

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multimedia / Sun, 26 Sep, 2021

Trees are life

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