Kinga Lodge of CDKN’s Negotiations Support Team reports on one of the most notable outcomes from the international climate talks in Warsaw, Poland.
One of the most significant outcomes of the 19th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)—which concluded last week in Warsaw—was a package for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) in tropical forest countries. Six years of intense and often polarised negotiations, following the Bali Action Plan of 2007, have culminated in agreement on an international REDD+ architecture; it will enable tropical forest countries to receive payments for both ‘readiness’ and results on REDD+.
Read more at Climate & Development Knowledge Network: http://cdkn.org/2013/11/cop19-delivers-warsaw-framework-for-redd-action/