REDD+ Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation

Publications

This flyer gives a brief overview of FAO's expertise and capacities to support partner countries on land tenure reform and REDD+ implementation.
This publication provides a status report on progress and achievements related to the MRV of REDD+ activities, as well as an update on activities related to countries’ submissions of their Forest Reference (Emission) Levels (FRELs/FRLs). The report also summarizes experiences with the technical assessment process, as of early 2017, and...
This document uses the publication "Good practices for estimating area and assessing accuracy of land change" (Olofsson et al. 2014) as a framework to provide recommendations for designing and implementing an accuracy assessment for land cover  and land cover change maps, and for estimating area based on the results from the...
This note aims to inform staff responsible for forest reference emission level and/or forest reference level (FREL/FRL) construction about the use, and potential added value and/or limitations, of spatial modeling. Illustrated with country examples.
The aim of this document is to help countries seeking to develop a REDD+ Forest Reference Emission Level and/or Forest Reference Level (FREL/FRL) under the UNFCCC. The document provides a structural overview of UNFCCC requirements for FREL/FRL construction, summarizing UNFCCC guidance and translating it into elements needed for FREL/FRL construction....