Only some have chosen the strategy of direct payments conditional on actions to reduce deforestation or degradation, and only a very few have sold carbon credits, demonstrating how REDD+ on the ground is actually a mix of old and new strategies.įaced with enormous challenges, proponents have developed a menu of ways to: secure financial support clarify forest tenure cooperate and act across scales measure, report and verify emissions and respond to the imperative of safeguarding local livelihoods. efforts to overcome or work around challenges in financing, implementing and monitoring REDD+Įarly expectations of significant funding for REDD+ encouraged proponent organizations to test a wide range of strategies to reduce emissions while also delivering co-benefits.

local populations of smallholders, whose agricultural activities are important drivers of deforestation in most sites and who are thus key stakeholders in these initiatives.strategies to reduce emissions over the three or more years that they have been in operation.diverse biogeographic and socioeconomic contexts.This book describes 23 initiatives in six different countries, including their: More than 300 subnational REDD+ initiatives have been launched across the tropics, responding to both the call for demonstration activities in the Bali Action Plan and the market for voluntary carbon offset credits. REDD+ is one of the leading near-term options for global climate change mitigation.

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