Year of publication 2006

Safeguards are a core component of the international framework for REDD+ agreed under the UNFCCC. Safeguarding against risks and enhancing benefits can be crucial to ensuring that REDD+ actions, results, and finance endure in the long term and contribute to national development goals, as well as sustainable development and green growth strategies. Country approaches to safeguards have advanced in recent years and provide a strategic opportunity to build on existing governance arrangements and processes, with potential benefits beyond REDD+. Common elements of such approaches are emerging and are presented in this Brief as a unified concept. Read this Brief if: you are involved in processes in your country to meet international safeguards requirements for REDD+; you want to learn about or clarify the UNFCCC requirements for REDD+ safeguards and how to meet and apply these, and other safeguards requirements; you are looking for technical information on how to plan and implement country approaches to REDD+ safeguards, including design of a Safeguard Information System.