The evolving landscape of REDD+ projects

Sills, E., Madeira, E.R., Sunderlin, W.D., Wertz-Kanounnikoff, S. 2009. The evolving landscape of REDD+ projects . In: Angelsen, A. with Brockhaus, M., Kanninen, M., Sills, E., Sunderlin, W. D. and Wertz-Kanounnikoff, S. (eds). Realising REDD+: National strategy and policy options. :265-280. Bogor, Indonesia, Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). ISBN: 978-6-02-869303-5..

The landscape of REDD+ projects varies significantly across countries, reflecting differences in land tenure systems, drivers of deforestation, recent experience with conservation programmes and governance capacity. Indonesia appears to have the most REDD+ projects in the pipeline, with a substantial portion seeking to establish additionality, permanence and a legal claim to carbon by obtaining concessions. In Brazil, two common strategies are to initially seek carbon credits from afforestation or reforestation and to develop local-level payments for environmental services (PES) schemes. Third-party certification standards and international environmental organisations are major influences on project development.