REDD+ side event at SB62: Focus on forests: Introducing the REDD+ Community of Practice

This side event offers a timely opportunity to reflect on recent developments, spotlight country experiences, and build momentum towards COP30. 

Overview of submitted REDD+ reference levels and REDD+ results

Please click READ MORE for an Excel file containing an overview of:

• Proposed REDD+ forest reference emission levels / forest reference levels;
• Status of technical assessment;
• REDD+ Results, and;
• Status of technical analysis.

As per 11 April 2025

REDD+ Web Platform Newsletter February 2025

This Newsletter highlights:

• REDD+ side event at COP29
• Updates surrounding REDD+ (40th GCF meeting and Article 6.4 Supervisory Body)
• REDD+ prospects in 2025, and
• REDD+ activities in 2024.

REDD+ side event at COP29: Boosting Forests: Empowering Parties to raise climate ambition with REDD+

Look at how NDCs can be informed by a decade of REDD+ reporting and review on forest reference levels, safeguards and REDD+ strategies, and their significant role in building capacity for REDD+ reporting and contributing to higher ambition.

Information on technical assessments of REDD+ reference levels in 2026

Please access here the early notice message to Parties for instructions on how to submit REDD+ forest reference emission levels and/or forest reference levels for technical assessment.

Early notice of submission for 2026 technical assessment is due by 10 November 2025. The submission deadline for the refence level is 12 January 2026.

REDD+ side event at SB60: REDD+ and forests in the Global Stocktake and Biennial Transparency Reports

This event clarifies how REDD+ reporting and review processes work under the ETF and Article 5.2 of the Paris Agreement, while also gives Parties an opportunity to highlight their plans on enhancing efforts towards halting and reversing deforestation and forest degradation by 2030.

REDD+ Web Platform Newsletter May 2024

This Newsletter highlights:

• Technical assessment of forest reference (emission) levels in 2024
• Technical analysis of REDD+ results in 2024, and
• Bonn Climate Change Conference in June 2024.

REDD+ Web Platform Newsletter January 2024

This Newsletter highlights:

• Global Stocktake and forests
• REDD+ side event at COP28
• REDD+ activities in 2023, and
• REDD+ under the Enhanced Transparency Framework.

REDD+ side event at COP28: The 10-year anniversary of the Warsaw Framework for REDD+

This side event will provide an overview of REDD+ development over the past decade, as well as information about reporting under the Paris Agreement. The Parties invited will also share their success stories of REDD+ implementation to provide insights to raise REDD+ ambition in the coming decade.

REDD+ Story

UNFCCC published several articles in collaboration with REDD+ countries to share the more in-depth experiences from the first decade of REDD+ implementation.

REDD+ Web Platform Newsletter June 2023

This Newsletter highlights:

• Technical assessment of forest reference (emission) levels in 2023
• Technical analysis of REDD+ results in 2023
• Bonn Climate Change Conference in June 2023, and
• REDD+ video.

REDD+ Web Platform Newsletter January 2023

This Newsletter highlights:

• REDD+ activities in 2022
• REDD+ at COP27, and
• REDD+ infographic.

UNFCCC COP27 CPF High level dialogue side event: Turning the Tide on Deforestation

At the High-level Dialogue leaders of CPF agencies will discuss actions, transparency and finance to accelerate efforts in turning the tide on deforestation in the context of current global pledges, including the Forest and Climate Leaders’ Partnership.

IUFRO Global Forest Expert Panels Programme side event: Over a decade of REDD+: Outcomes and socio-ecological impacts

Forests play a pivotal role in regulating our global climate and represent a cornerstone of our strategy to tackle climate change. REDD+ was conceived as a mechanism to compensate low- and middle-income countries for the conservation of their forests.

A new assessment evaluates the actual on-the-ground impacts of REDD+ activities on forests, climate, biodiversity and people. 

REDD+ side event at COP26: Curtail deforestation: how to measure progress? REDD+ tools and methodologies

REDD+ side event at COP26, Glasgow