About
Protecting and restoring the world’s forests is essential to keeping global warming below 1.5oC. With this knowledge, the ambitious global strategy to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation known as REDD+ has been at the top of the global climate agenda since 2007, as a way to promote both climate and development benefits from forests. CIFOR’s Global Comparative Study on REDD+ (GCS REDD+) began soon after, now the largest global research programme of its kind. From national-level policy work to district- and community-specific actions, CIFOR researchers have been collecting data, sharing experiences and analyzing research to determine what has worked and what hasn’t with REDD+ across 22 countries.
Fighting deforestation is challenging and complex. GCS REDD+ builds on 27 years of CIFOR science aimed at understanding the causes of deforestation and forest degradation, and what can be done to stop it, while securing the rights and livelihoods of indigenous peoples and local communities.
Research themes
Effective, efficient and equitable REDD+ requires transparent and accountable forest monitoring, appropriate forest-friendly policies and actions adapted to different circumstances, as well as well-designed safeguards and benefit-sharing mechanisms. Moreover, forest-friendly policies need to balance competing policy objectives and stakeholder interests in order to support and promote transformational change.
Find out how GCS REDD+ is addressing five major global challenges with knowledge and actions.
REDD+ policies
For REDD+ to be successful, a transition away from the forces that drive, maintain and intensify business-as-usual deforestation and forest degradation is needed, both within and beyond the forestry sector.Jurisdictional REDD+
Since 2007, more than 50 countries have launched national REDD+ initiatives; more than 40 subnational governments have committed to ‘jurisdictional approaches’; and hundreds of local REDD+ projects have been implemented globally. However, their effectiveness is still unknown.Transparency framework
The Enhanced Transparency Framework of the Paris Agreement provides a clear guideline to track progress toward achieving the nationally determined contributions (NDCs) for mitigation and adaptation and to inform the Global Stocktake. However, it represents a major challenge to many tropical countries.Social inclusion and safeguards
Different REDD+ safeguard standards now exist. How different are they and what would it take for national and subnational jurisdictions to meet them? How can we encourage ambition to support the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) as well as women?REDD+ benefit sharing
As REDD+ finance increases, improved transparency, accountability and equity of the revenue flows from current and prospective REDD+ benefit-sharing mechanisms can help foster confidence among stakeholders and create political support for further investments in tropical forests.Countries
10 Mar 2023
How to organize the distribution of REDD+ resources for effective impacts?
2:00 – 4:30 pm (GMT-3), online
20 Dec 2022
Forest carbon market: Post COP27 and transformative pathway for Vietnam
8:00am – 12:00pm GMT+7, Melia Hotel, Hanoi and online
15 – 16 Dec 2022
Visiting lecture: Taking local context into account in REDD+ policy implementation
15 Dec 2022 Universitas Indonesia, Depok
16 Dec 2022 LPEM FEB UI, Jakarta
16 Dec 2022 LPEM FEB UI, Jakarta
14 Dec 2022
Taking local context into account in REDD+ policies implementation
The Santika Hotel, Bogor
12 – 14 Dec 2022
Bridging policy and science on addressing climate change and deforestation in Democratic Republic of Congo
University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
Funding partners
Phase 4
Phase 3
Phase 1 and 2
