Key messages

• Results-based payment (RBP), the main innovation brought by REDD+, has also been the most challenging to implement. Three key...

  Authors: Angelsen, A.; Hermansen, E.A.T.; Rajão, R.; van der Hoff, R.

Key messages

• Information use throughout the REDD+ policy process is influenced by interests of powerful agents of deforestation and forest degradation....

  Authors: de Sy, V.; Herold, M.; Brockhaus, M.; Di Gregorio, M.; Ochieng, R.M.

Key messages

• Many developing countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) recognise the important role of forests and have put forward mitigation measures;...

  Authors: Pham, T.T.; Moeliono, M.; Angelsen, A.; Brockhaus, M.; Gallo, P.; Hoang, T.L.; Ðào Thi, L.C.; Ochoa, C.; Bocanegra, K.

Key messages

• It is important to distinguish between coordination failures in REDD+ policy and implementation that can be addressed through improved...

  Authors: Larson, A.M.; Sarmiento Barletti, J.P.; Ravikumar, A.; Korhonen-Kurki, K.

Key messages

• REDD+ implementation at national, subnational and local levels has resulted in some progress on tenure, but this is far...

  Authors: Sunderlin, W.D.; Larson, A.M.; Sarmiento Barletti, J.P.

Key messages

• National and subnational policies contribute to forest conservation, but their effectiveness is low on average, especially in the tropics.
• No...

  Authors: Börner, J.; West, T.A.P.; Blackman, A.; Miteva, D.A.; Sims, K.R.E.; Wunder, S.

Key messages

• Only a few studies assess the impacts of local REDD+ initiatives on forests, due to the financial, methodological, data...

  Authors: Simonet, G.; Bos, A.B.; Duchelle, A.E.; Resosudarmo, I.A.P.; Subervie, J.; Wunder, S.

Key messages

• Several studies on well-being outcomes of REDD+ interventions found small or mixed effects on livelihoods or welfare, which were...

  Authors: Duchelle, A.E.; de Sassi, C.; Sills, E.O.; Wunder, S.

Key messages

• In a study of subnational jurisdictions across 12 countries, which together contain 28% of the world’s tropical forests, all...

  Authors: Stickler, C.; Duchelle, A.E.; Nepstad, D.; Ardila, J.P.

Key messages

• There are three approaches to private sector commitments on zero deforestation: individual company or group-level adoption of voluntary standards;...

  Authors: Pacheco, P.; Bakhtary, H.; Camargo, M.; Donofrio, S.; Drigo, I.; Mithöfer, D.