Climate & Environment
UN-REDD Programme
Definition
The UN-REDD Programme is the UN collaborative programme on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, launched in 2008 as a partnership of FAO, UNDP and UNEP. It supports countries in building the capacities REDD+ requires: national strategies, forest monitoring and measurement systems (NFMS), safeguards information systems, and reference levels — the "readiness" phase that precedes results-based payments from funds such as the Green Climate Fund.
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This reference provides supporting context for how “UN-REDD Programme” is defined and used.
Overview
How it is used
The programme structures REDD+ readiness support, technical standards for forest monitoring, and the interface with GCF results-based payments.
Why it matters
UN-REDD is the workshop where the world's forest-carbon accounting machinery was actually built.