Submissions from Parties on Redd+ Safeguards and Assessment of Impacts on Biodiversity

Summary

The Executive Secretary is  circulating herewith, for the information of participants in the sixteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice, submissions received from Parties  and international non-governmental organizations  on relevant safeguards in reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+) in response to notification No. SCBD/STTM/JM/TC/JSt/74726, which was circulated by the Executive Secretary on January 2011 as a follow-up to decision X/33 of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention.