WWF REDD+ Country Profile - Mexico

Summary

WWF's REDD+ Country Profiles provide a snapshot look at the progress of a country to design and implement a REDD+ national strategy and its components. Developed in partnership with WWF's Forest and Climate Initiative, WWF-Germany and each relevant country's WWF office, the profiles examine key components of REDD+ in each country, including:

Governance: Setting the goals for REDD+, building the legal institutional arrangements to undertake it, and ensuring that all major REDD+ stakeholders can participate in its governance. This includes:

• Goals
• Institutional arrangements
• Legal framework

Tracking REDD+ Progress: Successful REDD+ implementation will depend on the country’s ability to track and report on the state of the forests and REDD+ progress against a reference level. This includes:

• MMRV
• Reference levels

Getting REDD+ Done: Achieving REDD+ that is (a) undertaking intervention strategies that address the country drivers of deforestation and (b) mobilizing  the financial resources to pay for it.

• Addressing drivers of deforestation
• Finance

REDD+ for People and Nature: Ensuring that the country REDD+ strategy (a) has in place adequate safeguards to protect vulnerable social groups and preserve tropical forest environments and that (b) beyond doing no harm, they also offer new income and livelihood opportunities to indigenous peoples, local communities and the rural poor. 

• Social and environmental safeguards
• Benefit sharing

Each profile also highlights WWF planned REDD+ related activities in the country through 2015.