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In the Perspectives section of this edition of The REDD+ Resource, Executive Director of UN Environment Erik Solheim explains how outdated subsidies on agricultural commodities act as 'invisible bulldozers of forests' in many developing countries.
You can also find other interesting stories on the value of boreal forests, economic opportunities of sustainable forest management, and the way legal instruments are being established to sustain National Forest Monitoring Systems.
Three articles highlight Ecuador's REDD+ related progress: the publication of the country's first summary of safeguards information; its technical report on the analysis of REDD+ results; and the Green Climate Fund's maiden transfer of funds for national REDD+ related activities.
Browsing down, you can see how changes in forest areas are being estimated more efficiently and how countries are making progress in reporting REDD+ actions to the UNFCCC. Along with this, you can also find news from UN-REDD Programme partner countries, publications, jobs, videos, and much more.
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FAO's work to support countries reach SDG targets
An analysis of potential synergies between SDGs and REDD+
03/2017 | Mairon G. Bastos Lima et al.
Agroforestería para la restauración del paisaje
Investigate the adoption of discourses on REDD+ across different national contexts
2017 | Global Environmental Change
The key role of forests in meeting climate targets requires science for credible mitigation
02/2017 | Nature Climate Change
Mapping financial flows for REDD+ and land use in Brazil
07/2017 | FOREST TRENDS
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Viet Nam: National forest protection plan unveiled
India's record-breaking environmental campaign
A cheap fix for climate change
In Kenya, a transformation in shades of REDD
The cost of making compensation payments to local forest populations in a REDD+ pilot project in Madagascar
Ghana's Forestry Commission launches forests 2020 project
América Latina es la región más dinámica del mundo en estrategias de reducción de emisiones por deforestación y degradación de bosques
A.Latina debe impulsar alianza público-privada para combate cambio climático
Deforestación y derechos campesinos
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The work of FAO to enhance national capacities to report on climate change
Technical paper: From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ under the UNFCCC
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UPCOMING EVENTS
Joint Knowledge Day on Safeguards
UN-REDD and the World Bank
16 September, 2017
Nairobi, Kenya
UN-REDD Africa Regional Knowledge Exchange
'Navigating the transition from REDD+ Readiness to Implementation'
18-19 September, 2017
Nairobi, Kenya
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US Forest Service International Programs.
Brazzaville, Congo
Deadline: 19 August 2017
Forestry Officer (Forest Management), P4
FAO
Duty Station: Italy, Rome
Deadline: 25 August 2017
Deadline: 28 February 2019
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Erik Solheim examines how perverse agricultural subsidies are fueling forest destruction in developing countries.
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Boreal forests provide many services to Mongolia. The UN-REDD Programme is supporting the Government of Mongolia to recognize the value of its boreal forests.
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National experts and enterprises discussed experiences, opportunities, challenges and recommendations for the sustainable management of natural forests at a forum which convened in Viet Nam recently. See what the experts had to say.
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Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras and Paraguay share knowledge on legal instruments that clarify institutional mandates for National Forest Monitoring Systems.
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One of the main challenges to halting deforestation is that cutting down forests continues to be financially more attractive than protecting or recovering them.
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Uno de los principales desafíos para atajar la deforestación es que cortar el bosque continúa siendo más atractivo financieramente que protegerlo o recuperarlo.
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Coffee is a strategic resource for Viet Nam. See how deforestation-free coffee is being explored and piloted in the second-largest producer of coffee in the world.
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Accurate and consistent information on forest area and forest-area change is a requirement if a country is to access results-based payments for its REDD+ activities. The goal is to obtain area estimates that are 'as accurate as possible'. But what does this mean?
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Ecuador published its first summary of information on addressing and respecting REDD+ safeguards in March 2017. Much can be learned from the second country in the world, after Brazil, to publish its summary of safeguards information.
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Ecuador publicó en marzo 2017 su Primer Resumen de Información del Abordaje y Respeto de Salvaguardas para REDD+. Se trata del segundo país en todo el mundo, después de Brasil, en publicar este documento en la Plataforma Web de la CMNUCC.
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Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Malaysia have reported their complete REDD+ results to the UNFCCC, with total reductions of over three billion tons of carbon-dioxide equivalents (tCO2e), mostly from Brazil.
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Representantes de organizaciones campesinas y entidades relacionadas con el posconflicto en Colombia visitaron Guatemala en julio para conocer políticas y herramientas que este país generó para fomentar el manejo forestal sostenible como medida de desarrollo social y económico en zonas de posconflicto.
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high-level delegation of officials from five ministries in Myanmar visited Brazil in early July 2017 to learn about how the country successfully reduced deforestation in the Amazon.
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Latin American countries advance in the preparation of National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
The second Working Meeting of the Latin American Network of National GHG Inventories brings technical specialists from a dozen countries around one table.
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Los encuentros trataron el cambio de uso del suelo, la identificación de potenciales acciones para mitigar la deforestación y degradación forestal y la determinación de los beneficios sociales y ambientales que aportan los bosques de cada región
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Experts from ten countries in the Amazon and Mesoamerican regions met in Brazil to share best practices in developing National Forest Inventories. This resulted in the development of a joint agenda for the harmonization of main criteria for measuring forests.
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El 52% de los bosques colombianos se encuentra en territorios de comunidades, de modo que el primer eje de la Estrategia Integral de Control de la Deforestación y Gestión de los Bosques busca ampliar la visión de los bosques y selvas y reconocer la relación que las comunidades tienen con ellos.
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UNDP and Italy partner to support REDD+ implementation
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea of the Republic of Italy signed a Third Party Cost-Sharing Agreement to undertake a range of climate change and REDD+ forest-related joint and coordinated activities at the global, regional and national level.
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The Green Climate Fund is transferring its first REDD+ disbursement to help Ecuador reduce greenhouse gas emissions and protect its forests.
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Work is underway in Sudan to help the country reduce its Greenhouse Gas emissions and pursue low-carbon development. Forestry, energy and waste are the main sectors for Sudan's planned low carbon development interventions.
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Ecuador publishes technical report on analysis of REDD+ results
One of the first countries to have completed the process and have its Technical Annex successfully analyzed by the UNFCCC, Ecuador is now eligible to receive results-based payments for REDD+.
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Innovative CBR+ solutions in Cambodia and Sri Lanka
Forest communities in Sri Lanka and Cambodia benefit from the CBR+ initiative with tangible benefits for people and forests.
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Ghana launches the development of its REDD+ investment plan
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n its quest to operationalize the national REDD+ strategy and implement other Warsaw Framework elements, Ghana has launched the development of the Ghana REDD+ Investment Plan (GRIP).
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Los objetivos de la estrategia nacional REDD+ son establecer las responsabilidades de cada una de las partes y favorecer la participación para mantener y mejorar las reservas de carbono existentes, reducir las causas de la deforestación y degradación de los bosques y fortalecer programas como el pago por servicios ambientales.
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Zambia advances in its REDD+ investment plan development
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he REDD+ Investment Plan of Zambia, which identifies Core Investment Priorities (CIPs) is expected to be finalized by November 2017. Each CIP will be supported by cross-cutting priority areas that focus on strengthening governance and technical capacities.
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La implementación nacional de REDD+ en Honduras podría abocarse, entre otras posibles acciones, a
atenuar la presión de conversión de los bosques, reducir la degradación por extracción de leña, prevenir los incendios forestales, controlar la plaga del gorgojo descortezador y restaurar zonas forestales.
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