Key messages

• Deforestation and forest degradation are complex problems with many connected social, economic and environmental challenges. Reversing deforestation can only be addressed through sustainable land-use management and improved social cohesion.
• REDD+ provides incentives to developing countries to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
• Improved efforts are needed to boost confidence in carbon markets as potential sources of finance in Indonesia.
• Multi-level governance and private sector involvement are crucial to success in DRC.
• Vietnam aims to expand REDD+ to mangrove and wetland environmental services.
• Peru reduces deforestation and now includes peatlands in its REDD+ focus.
• Brazil needs a high-level commitment to REDD+ and a major reduction in deforestation in order to meet its climate goals.

Authors: CIFOR

Subjects: climate change, mitigation, development policy, national planning, deforestation, degradation, governance

Publication type: Publication, Report

Year: 2021