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Reports

June 06, 2022

NDCs in Southeast Asia: Are Governments recognizing the rights, roles and contributions of Indigenous Peoples?

The Southeast Asia report presents findings and key recommendations from Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. The country reports and the regional report will serve as baseline documents for the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and its member and partner organizations working on climate change and the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Reports

June 06, 2022

NDCs in South Asia: Are Governments recognizing the rights, roles and contributions of Indigenous Peoples?

The South Asia report presents findings and key recommendations from Bangladesh, India and Nepal. The country reports and the regional report will serve as baseline documents for the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and its member and partner organizations working on climate change and the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Reports

June 06, 2022

NDCs in the Mekong: Are Governments recognizing the rights, roles and contributions of Indigenous Peoples?

The Mekong report presents findings and key recommendations from Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. The country reports and the regional report will serve as baseline documents for the Asia Indigenous Peoples Pact (AIPP) and its member and partner organizations working on climate change and the rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Reports

June 06, 2022

Nationally Determined Contributions in Asia: Are Governments recognizing the rights, roles and contributions of Indigenous Peoples?

The results of the study are documented in 10 country-level reports incorporating a gender perspective, which also identify Indigenous Peoples’ practices that are already contributing to the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Reports

May 21, 2022

The End of Business as Usual: Mainstreaming Gender in Jurisdictional REDD+ Approaches

A report on gender-based lessons learned and best practices to share across the GCFTF network and to inform jurisdictional approaches to low-emissions development.

Info Briefs

March 02, 2022

National funding mechanisms for REDD+: lessons learned and success factors.

Funding mechanisms for REDD+ are the governance structures that countries put in place to gain access to and channel funding towards the policies and measures on the ground that address the drivers of deforestation.

Info Briefs

March 01, 2022

Recognizing and empowering Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities as critical partners in forest solutions to the climate emergency

Indigenous peoples and local communities are crucial stakeholders – as well as rights holders – in the implementation of the Paris Agreement, notably Article 5

Reports

November 16, 2021

Jurisdictional REDD+ approaches: Lessons from the Governors’ Climate & Forests Task Force.

From 2018 – 2020, UNDP, with funding from the Government of Norway, supported 35 states and provinces in the Governors’ Climate & Forests Task Force to develop and/or revise jurisdictional strategies and investment plans to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation.

Reports

November 03, 2021

High-Integrity Voluntary Carbon Markets (VCM): Emerging Issues in Forest Countries

This report compiles the key issues for tropical forest countries to consider in their engagement as suppliers of high integrity forest carbon credits to the VCMs.

Reports

April 16, 2021

Consideration for Integrating Nature-Based Solutions in Nationally Determined Contributions Illustrating the Potential Through REDD+

Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) is a key nature-based solution (NBS) for the forest sector. Drawing on lessons from UNDP’s support to REDD+ countries over the past decade, this paper describes crucial areas for policy makers to consider when seeking to enhance their NDCs and support NDC implementation through NBS.