Presented by Sven Wunder (European Forest Institute (EFI) and CIFOR-ICRAF Senior Associate) at "Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB58) side event: High-integrity forest carbon markets: from global stock-taking to advancing science" on 8 Jun 2023
2. REDD+ map vs. study sample: projects and jurisdictions
=> Overlapping subnational, regional and national REDD+
=> variable implementation & research densities across tropics
6. Conservation impacts: REDD+ compared
REDD+ performs as least
as ‘well’ (or as poorly…)
as other conservation
tools
…but little analysis of
cost effectiveness
7. REDD+ credit
additionality:
Project impacts
vs. its baselines
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=> Much of REDD+
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stick’ ex-ante baselines
8. Five take-away messages
1. REDD+ is to carbon, what ICDP has been to biodiversity: a heterogenous
mix of on-the-ground interventions. JA-REDD+ will not change that part
(complex policy mixes); we still need to disentangle to learn!
2. Forest impacts are: statistically significant, modestly sized – as are other
conservation tools. True also for small 1st generation of JA-REDD+.
3. REDD+, incl. JA, could have more impact if action spatially targeted high-
threat, forest carbon-dense areas.
4. For carbon credit integrity, REDD+ impact performance also needs to be
paired with realistic ex-ante baselines.
5. For current JA-REDD+, worrying how little accompanying research/
impact evaluation is being done: what policies change? what impact?