UNDP collaborates with the UK government to accelarate global and local actions to safeguard mangrove forests is Viet Nam.
Evidence is mounting that forest carbon offset credits are not working. Can a new approach, based on countries and companies making wider contributions to climate action beyond offsetting emissions, save the world’s forests?
ProAmazonia's efforts have led to the conservation of 789,099 hectares of forest and water basins and the restoration of 15,023 hectares in the Amazonian provinces.
This interactive brief summarizes the development process and UNDP’s supported actions of the Regulatory Framework for REDD+ Projects in Cambodia.
The momentum of one of the most innovative approaches under REDD+.
The size and scale of the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) has increased dramatically over recent years. With this, there has also been an emergence of various global initiatives aiming to guide the integrity of the VCM. While some positive steps are being taken towards gender equality, defining safeguarding criteria and promoting high integrity carbon credits, recent research and global policy dialogues suggest the current VCM landscape still uses varying degrees of social and environmental safeguards, with gender being often the least regarded aspect, sometimes even neglected.
This Guidance note is extremely relevant for governments currently seeking to accelerate NDC implementation through actions in the land sector, while also considering ambitious long-term climate goals.
Improving payment for ecosystem service schemes.
UN-REDD efforts to integrate women’s perspectives into the Voluntary Carbon Market
Lessons learned from the initial application of UNDP's Performance-Based Payment Policy in Indonesia
Our second country-specific piece in a sequence of blogs spotlighting the use of this initiative on a national level, outlining lessons learned from the application of PBP in Indonesia.
