Based on the recent publications Forest, Climate, Biodiversity and People: Assessing a Decade of REDD+ and A Decade of REDD+: Stakeholder Perceptions of its Implementation, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) will showcase the effects that more than 10 years of REDD+ implementation have had on forests, carbon, biodiversity, and people. Moreover, the panellists will describe and explain potential synergies between FLR (Forest Landscape Restoration) and REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation considering conservation, sustainable management forests, and enhancement of forest carbon stocks), as well as provide insights on how local stakeholders perceive REDD+ implementation.

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GLF CLIMATE ALONGSIDE COP27 | 11–12 NOVEMBER 2022
REDD+ Challenges and Lessons
Learnt
Stephanie Mansourian, Amy Duchelle, Cesar Sabogal and Bhaskar Vira
Sharm El-Sheikh, November 11, 2022

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✔ Challenges
✔ Lessons
✔ Parallels between REDD+ and forest landscape
restoration (FLR)
Question
s:

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Findings
✔ 9 overarching challenges & 9 lessons
✔ Challenges differentiated as governance/institutional; management/technical and financial
✔ Also according to scale: international, national, local or cross level
✔ Cross learning between FLR and REDD+
Photos: © Nelson
Grima

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REDD+ and FLR

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2000 2005 2015
2010 2020
Definition of FLR
(Segovia,
WWF/IUCN)
2005 – COP11, PNG
and Costa Rica
presented options for
reducing emissions
from deforestation in
tropical countries
under a post-2012
climate regime
2003 - Global Partnership
on FLR (GPFLR)
2007 - Launch of the
Great Green Wall
(GGW) for the Sahara
and the Sahel Initiative
2009 - US
Congress passes
the FLR Act
2011 - Bonn Challenge
2014 New York Declaration
on Forests
2013 -The Warsaw
Framework, adopted at COP
19, included a series of
decisions clarifying several
key issues to operationalise
REDD+
2015 - AFR 100
2019 - Commitment at
UNCCD COP to restore
100 million ha of degraded
land
2015 – Paris Agreement - REDD+
is recognized in Article 5
2021 Launch of UN
Decade on
Ecosystem
Restoration
Key political milestones for FLR & REDD+
2010 - Cancun (COP16) decision
on REDD+
2014 Initiative 20x20, 17
Latin American countries to
bring 20 million ha of
degraded land into
restoration by 2020.

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Cross-learning between REDD+ and FLR
▪ Lessons from 19 landscapes (Stanturf et al., 2017)
▪ Lessons from 7 landscapes (Mansourian et al., 2021)
▪ REDD+ lessons
Expectations
Threats & drivers
Collaboration
Finance & incentives
Spatial & temporal scales
Capacity building, knowledge & methods
Monitoring & adaptive management
Communication
Political support & policies
Diversity of approaches & benefits
Equity, tenure & rights
Power
Local governance & ownership

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Cross-learning between REDD+ and FLR
From FLR to REDD+
• Top down - priorities (e.g. maps)
• Simplistic - uni-dimensional and uni-disciplinary
• Funding - Limited to local landscape populations
• Governance not adequately considered (conflicting tenure, perverse
incentives, lack of local decision-making or contradictory sectoral
priorities )
Photo: © Nelson
Grima

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Cross-learning between REDD+ and FLR
From REDD+ to FLR
• New actors - diverse interpretations of the scope of REDD+;
complexity
• Tenure - efforts early on to focus on key tenurial issues.
• Institutional set up - REDD+ institutions as an umbrella for
re-grouping different state agencies.
• Safeguards - the development and application of safeguards in
REDD+ might be useful for FLR
Photo: © Stephanie
Mansourian

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Global Landscapes Forum
The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is the world’s largest knowledge-led platform on integrated land use, dedicated to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and Paris
Climate Agreement. The Forum takes a holistic approach to create sustainable landscapes that are productive, prosperous, equitable and resilient and considers five cohesive
themes of food and livelihoods, landscape restoration, rights, finance and measuring progress. It is led by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), in collaboration
with its co-founders UNEP and the World Bank and Charter Members.
Charter members: CIAT, CIFOR-ICRAF, CIRAD, Climate Focus, Conservation International, Crop Trust, Ecoagriculture Partners, The European Forest Institute, Evergreen
Agriculture, FAO, FSC, GEF, GIZ, ICIMOD, IFOAM - Organics International, The International Livestock Research Institute, INBAR, IPMG, IUFRO, Rainforest Alliance, Rare,
Rights and Resources Initiative, SAN, TMG-Think Tank for Sustainability, UNEP, Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation part of Wageningen Research, World Farmer
Organization, World Agroforestry, World Bank Group, World Resources Institute, WWF International, Youth in Landscapes Initiative (YIL)
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