When REDD+ – Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation – emerged as a potential global mechanism for mitigating climate change through payments for keeping trees standing, CIFOR took up the challenge of learning what REDD+ needs to succeed.

The result was the Global Comparative Study on REDD+. In 2013, the first phase concluded, having built a strong knowledge base and community of expertise on REDD+.

With advances made during the international climate talks in Warsaw in 2013, the focus is moving to implementation. As CIFOR’s Global Comparative Study moves into its next phase (2013–2015), it will aim to provide more specific information at the country level, while deepening research kainto benefit sharing, multilevel governance, low-carbon development at the landscape level, and synergies between mitigation and adaptation.

Global Comparative Study on REDD+ Phase 1

Duration

2009–2013

Funding partners

Norad, DFAT, UK Government, USAID, EU, Finland, USFS, Profor, CLUA, David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Objective

To provide REDD+ policymakers and practitioners with the information, analysis and tools they need to achieve effective and cost-efficient reductions of carbon emissions with equitable impacts and co-benefits.

Phase 1 achievements