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Greetings!
The 4th Resource this year features stories from UN-REDD partner countries that have achieved remarkable milestones in their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to identify opportunities for restoring degraded land. The urgency of fighting the climate emergency, while also conserving habitats and species and fostering economic growth has become more obvious than ever. Leaders in politics, international development, civil society, and business are now acknowledging a post-COVID recovery must not mean a return to business as usual. They are increasingly calling on governments and the private sector to invest in nature-based solutions, such as forests, as the most mature NbS, as part of the green global recovery plan. This would serve to deliver both climate and economic ambitions in the short and long term.
In his State of the Planet address on December 2, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, highlighted the importance of working with nature to preserve our forests and tackle climate change: “One of our best allies is nature itself. Drastically reducing deforestation and systematically restoring forests and other ecosystems is the single largest nature-based opportunity for climate mitigation.”
To be truly effective, forest protection and restoration needs to be gender responsive, as our story from Colombia shows. Women act as forest stewards and play vital roles for their communities’ food security, hence strengthening the dialogue between women and men becomes vital for sustainable forest management.
We are also pleased to announce the launch of the webpage for the UN-REDD regional initiative in the Lower Mekong Region. Find out more about our work to promote sustainable forest trade at: https://www.un-redd.org/lower-mekong
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SURVEY | SONDAGE | ENCUESTA
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Covid-19 restrictions have meant that many forest conservation and REDD+-related meetings, workshops, and events have been reorganised as online events or webinars. In this brief survey the UN-REDD Programme explores how these changes have affected women’s and men's participation. Please fill in our survey
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En raison des restrictions imposées par le COVID-19, de nombreux événements et ateliers liés à la conservation des forêts et à la REDD+ ont été réorganisés sous forme de réunions virtuelles ou de webinaires. Dans cette brève enquête, le programme REDD des Nations Unies examine comment ces changements ont affecté la participation des femmes et des hommes:
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Las restricciones del COVID-19 han implicado que muchos eventos y talleres relacionados con la conservación de los bosques y REDD+ se reorganicen como reuniones virtuales o seminarios en línea. En esta breve encuesta el Programa UN-REDD explora cómo estos cambios han afectado la participación de mujeres y hombres:
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The Green Gigaton Challenge: Bringing REDD+ to Scale
On November 19, at the London Climate Action Week, the UN-REDD Programme and Emergent, in collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund, Forest Trends and the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions, launched the Green Gigaton Challenge, an initiative to catalyze funding to reward at least one gigaton of high-quality emissions reductions a year from forests by 2025.
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Our Race to Zero: why nature can help us safeguard our planet and build a healthier future
With UNFCCC COP26 just one year away, momentum for nature-based solutions is growing, as politicians and scientists focus on tackling our growing environmental, social, and economic challenges.
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Forests will play a pivotal role in the post-pandemic recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered an unprecedented global economic crisis. The immediate priorities of countries have been to shore up businesses and industries hardest hit by the recession.
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Women and forests: mainstreaming gender into community forestry in Colombia
Forestry and agroforestry systems are not gender neutral. It has been widely documented that women, for a number of cultural, socio-economic and institutional reasons, are often disadvantaged in terms of access and control over forest resources and the availability of economic opportunities.
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From reference levels to results reporting: REDD+ transparency for forests and climate
The future of the world’s forests are increasingly under threat from human activities. Deforestation and forest degradation have negative impacts on biodiversity and contribute to climate change.
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Opportunities for Forest Restoration in Latin America and the Caribbean
Deforestation and forest degradation are some of the biggest environmental challenges of our times. The world has lost 178 million hectares of forest in the last three decades, with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) being one of the affected regions.
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10 free online courses on forest monitoring you don’t want to miss
Since COVID-19 first turned our world upside down in early 2020, most sectors have been forced to rethink the way they do business.
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Myanmar takes major step in getting REDD+ ready
Myanmar’s first Safeguards Summary of Information, submitted to the UNFCCC online platform in late August 2020, sets out the country’s progress to date in addressing and respecting the Cancun Safeguards for REDD+.
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Costa Rica receives $54 million from the Green Climate Fund for its leadership in conservation
Costa Rica is now first Central American country to receive funds from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) for its successful results in reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).
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Ecuador launches REDD+ RBP project to restore deforested and degraded areas.
A pioneering REDD+ country, Ecuador continues to demonstrate innovative leadership in forest conservation. In July 2019, Ecuador received $18.5 million US from the Green Climate Fund’s pilot programme on Results-based Payments to be reinvested in the national effort to restore deforested and degraded areas and promote sustainable production.
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Indonesia receives Results-based Payments from the Green Climate Fund
In late August 2020, the Green Climate Fund (GCF) approved $103.8 million US in results-based payments (RBPs) for Indonesia’s REDD+ emissions reductions from 2014 to 2016.
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How forest monitoring and emissions accounting can enable forest carbon finance
Countries around the world have developed National Forest Monitoring Systems (NFMS) and capacities for REDD+ to track mitigation results and access carbon finance. Accessing carbon finance for REDD+ requires sound measurement, reporting and verification – and accounting for emission reductions.
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Leveraging REDD+ finance: sustainable & integrated forest landscapes in Argentina
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Four experiences, four territories, same model
Community Forest Management in Latin America: a commitment to conservation and sustainable development
Forest loss has serious environmental, economic and social consequences, resulting in the decline of livelihoods dependent on forest resources. With forest loss, communities also face water scarcity, habitat destruction, endangered species and an increase in greenhouse gas emissions.
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Planet data at the service of robust, transparent and accurate National Forest Monitoring Systems
In recent years, a wealth of newly accessible public datasets and satellite imagery, together with the exponential increase in online tools and mobile applications available to process this data have had a significant positive impact on the way land cover changes are monitored.
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Increasing finance for sustainable land use in Latin America through the UN-REDD Programme’ s support
It is estimated that forests and agriculture can deliver more than 30 percent of climate change mitigation potential.
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Marco hondureño de salvaguardas para proyectos de cambio climático
El Programa ONU Medio Ambiente se encuentra trabajando junto con el Gobierno de Honduras en el diseño del Marco Nacional de Salvaguardas para Proyectos y Programas de Cambio Climático de Honduras (MNSCC), una experiencia pionera en la región.
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The UN-REDD Programme puts mangroves at the heart of REDD+ action in Myanmar
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Results-based payments for a greener future
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Mobilizing to address gender in forests and climate change actions
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Green Gigaton Challenge Launched
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Better data, better decisions, better forests
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