Subnational REDD + Initiatives - Design and Implementation Factsheet

Summary

Although REDD+ is still being negotiated in international arenas, some 200 subnational forest carbon initiatives are already underway around the world. These interventions aim to increase forest carbon stocks relative to business‑as‑usual scenarios (i.e., the scenario if there were no intervention). How successful are these interventions likely to be? Will their outcomes be efficient, equitable and effective? Will they deliver co‑benefits such as improved livelihoods and protection of tenure and biodiversity? What conditions and activities help or hinder these initiatives in achieving their aims? How can they get the necessary support from local people? To help answer these questions, we collect and analyze socioeconomic and biophysical baseline data at 23 REDD+ sites in six countries, encompassing more than 170 villages and nearly 4500 households. To ensure effects are appropriately attributed to the initiatives, we compare data before and after, and with and without, an intervention.