REDD+ Resources

Documents & Reports

• Forests and People: 2011, the International Year of Forests
• Final report of the Informal Working Group on Interim Finance for REDD+
• World Development Report 2010:  Development abd Climate Change
• World Bank's Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change
• Meridian Institute "REDD+: An Options Assessment Report" (prepared for the Government of Norway)
• Eliasch Review on "Climate Change: Financing Global Forests"
• Estimando Los Costos de REDD+ a Nivel de País
• REDD: A Casebook of On-the-Ground Experience (TNC, CI and WCS, July 2010)
• Understanding REDD+ - The Role of Governance, Enforcement and Safeguards in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation

Guidance

• Guidelines on Stakeholder Engagement in REDD+ Readiness (English, Français, Español)
• IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use) (2006)
• IPCC Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (2003)
• GOFC-GOLD sourcebook on REDD+ monitoring, measuring and reporting

Training

• The Nature Conservancy on-line training on REDD+ 
• GHG Institute e-learning course: GHG Accounting for Forest Inventories
  

Governance and REDD+

• Governance of Forests Initiative Indicator Framework (WRI, IMAZON, ICV)
  
• PROFOR Forest Governance Indicators and Questionnaire to Establish a Baseline Forest Governance Situation
• CIFOR Governance Tools
  

Useful Links

• UN-REDD+ Programme
• Forest Investment Program
• The Forest Dialogue
• The Prince's Rainforest Project
• Norway's International Climate and Forest Initiative
• REDD-Monitor: Analysis, opinions, news and views about REDD
• The Little REDD+ Book: a guide to the UN negotiations on REDD
• UNFCCC REDD+ Web Platform
• UNFCCC LULUCF process
• What is REDD+? A Guide for Indigenous Communities
• Forest Carbon Strategies in Climate Change Mitigation - Confronting Challenges Through On-the-Ground Experience
• First-o-its-kind Map Depicts Global Forest Heights
• What is needed to make REDD+ work on the ground? Lessons learned from pilot forest carbon initiatives
• Forest Trends Forest Carbon Portal
• REDD Desk
• Manual for Social Impact Assessment of Land-Based Carbon Projects
• REDD+ Partnership sharing information
• New REDD-plus briefing paper for Tianjin
• REDD-plus guide