Looking Ahead

COP27 AND BEYOND

The need to accelerate actions for forests and climate has never been greater, nor has the ability to deliver. 2023 presents a number of strategic opportunities to accelerate into a critical decade of implementation.

In 2023, the programme will continue to support forest partners – countries, donors, private sector, civil society, Indigenous peoples, women and local communities – to turn the tide on deforestation and to contribute to advancing a number of strategic commitments in the forest and climate agenda, as discussed by the UN-REDD Executive Board:

Supporting policies and investments for forest solutions, including cross-sectoral approaches and multi-stakeholder processes, particularly in the agricultural and rural development sectors;

Supporting countries to continuously improve their forest monitoring and MRV systems, in order to ensure the high-integrity of REDD+ actions and financing, and to meet requirements of evolving jurisdictional standards for REDD+ results, such as ART-TREES;

Supporting countries to assess and access climate and carbon finance, both upfront (for the implementation of forest solutions), as well as for REDD+ (rewarding forest-climate results);

Promoting social inclusion and gender equality in forest policies and the associated climate finance, with a specific focus on Indigenous peoples and local communities;

Assisting countries in building the necessary support regulations and institutional arrangements to ensure the environmental integrity of the mix of carbon finance options they choose to deploy, ensuring environmental integrity and social equity;

Assisting forest countries in the Global South and relevant stakeholders to explore and enhance private sector investments, including through LEAF;

Supporting countries in monitoring and enhancing the forest components of their NDCs.

On the road to COP28, there will be a strong focus of attention on scaling up action in the Amazon, as well as discussions on topics such as carbon finance, the voluntary carbon market, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs), to name a few.

At UN-REDD, we will continue to work towards making forests an exemplar of progress being made on the Paris Agreement, bringing forward evidence that forest solutions and finance are progressing, for a successful recognition of the forest action agenda at COP28.

Looking to the 2030 horizon, the goal of UN-REDD is to help realize forest solutions to the climate emergency by avoiding carbon emissions and fostering carbon sequestration for at least 5 GtCO2e per year.