Target Audience: REDD+ reporting managers
Summary and Objectives: This e- learning module has been developed as a collaboration between the US SilvaCarbon program as one of GFOl's capacity building leads together with their partners at The Nature Conservancy and Conservation International.
The purposes of this e-learning module are to provide background and context for REDD+ through the analysis of the key decisions adopted by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's COP. Review the range of REDD+ standards and financing options that already exist, and the major reporting differences between these different standards. It also highlights, guess, emerging developments that may impact REDD+ standards, financing and reporting going forward.
And finally, it provides a comprehensive list of resources for participants to consult, particularly countries in helping them to consider which REDD+ scheme may best suit their own unique national needs.
Goals
- To provide background and context of the UN Climate Change initiative, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation plus the role of enhancing forest carbon stocks through conservation, protection, and sustainable forest management (or REDD+) through the major decisions adopted at the UNFCCC COPs (reiterate the importance of these decisions in (1) driving the standards designs and (2) financing needs/options available).
- To review the range of REDD+ standards that exist, the financing options that currently exist, and the major reporting differences that exist amongst the standards.
- To provide an overview of selected REDD+ standards for which methodologies and financing exist.
- To highlight the emerging developments that may impact REDD+ standards, financing and reporting.
- To provide a comprehensive list of additional resources for the -learning participants to consult.
Course Contact: Monica Jeada (202) 394-5059 mjeada@contractor.usgs.gov or Sylvia Wilson (571) 286-0680 snwilson@usgs.gov