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1. 2011ODI Creed, A. and Nakhooda, S.
   REDD+ Finance Delivery: Lessons from Early ExperienceDelivering REDD+ finance has taken more preparatory work, capacity and tailoring than initially envisaged. Multilateral institutions financing REDD+ have made significant progress, and experience to date will inform and facilitate future implementation. Alongside this, Annex II countries are providing increasing volumes of finance through bilateral channels. There remains very little transpar...
2. 2011REDD-netKimbowa Richard, David Mwayafu and Gerald Kairu
   REDD+ and other sectors in East Africa: opportunities for cross-sectoral implementationAs REDD+ implementation will affect many actors, it is important that it involves a multi-stakeholder process, involving governments and civil society in East Africa. This paper outlines the status of REDD+ processes, opportunities and challenges in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, and points out current and potential synergies between REDD+ and the key economic sectors of agriculture and food sec...
3. 2011IIEDIsilda Nhantumbo
   REDD+: Ready to engage private investors?The prospect of gaining carbon credits by acquiring land to implement REDD+ has caught the eye of the private sector. In many countries, including Papua New Guinea and Republic of Congo, there are reports of a carbon rush. In Mozambique, private investors have expressed an interest in acquiring more than 22 per cent of the country’s land for REDD+. But Mozambique, like many developing count...
4. 2010ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest MarginsMinang, P. A., van Noordwijk, M., Meyfroidt, P., Agus, F. and Dewi, S.
   Emissions Embodied in Trade (EET) and Land use in Tropical Forest MarginsThe brief highlights that discussions on REDD+ have not effectively considered the implications of emissions embodied in trade (EET). This policy brief reflects on (a) how emission reductions may induce cross-border land use displacements; (b) how market demand for “greener” commodities and consumer pressure on some tropical commodities can shape behaviour of land use agents and influence...
5. 2011World Resources ReportSeymour, F.
   No Regrets: Maintaining Forests for Adaptation and MitigationThe author argues that while governments will face trade-offs in deciding how to respond to climate change, they should not lose sight of the opportunities to capture synergies between approaches that meet both short-term and long-term objectives. Improved forest management is presented as a win-win solution that provides many such synergies, as well as opportunities for jointly advancing cou...