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This info brief captures  the UN-REDD Africa Regional Knowledge Exchange 2018 “REDD+ Implementation at Scale: Emerging Lessons on Jurisdictional Approaches and Linkages with National Policy Frameworks” that was held on 2–3 October 2018 at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, Kenya

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El presente estudio fue elaborado por Francesca Felicani Robles, Oficial Forestal
Legal de la FAO, en el marco de la asistencia técnica 2018 del Programa ONU-REDD
para responder a una solicitud de la Comisión Nacional Forestal en materia de la
titularidad de las Emisiones Reducidas en México.

There are as many drivers of deforestation and forest degradation that lead to forest emissions as there are ways to mitigate them. In a given area, various actors – from local communities to private companies – may all be engaged in actions that reduce emissions, from sustainable agricultural intensification to reforestation and forest restoration plans. At the same time, the national government may implement land-tenure reform. All these actions contribute to reducing emissions resulting from deforestation and forest degradation. 

This is why achieving large-scale mitigation in the land sector requires collective action at different levels. In practice, this means that governments engaged in REDD+ must not only enact policy reforms, but also find ways to incentivize local actions, so that they can contribute to national mitigation goals. “Nesting” looks at how governments can incentivize local, smaller-scale activities and integrate them with larger national (or subnational) programmes to achieve their NDC and support low-carbon development. 

REDD+ nesting can be especially critical where responsibility for, and the impacts of, land management are decentralized. Nesting is also needed when countries apply for results-based finance at both the national and subnational levels, or if there are active REDD+ projects within the country’s borders.

Boreal forests stretch across the northern reaches of the globe, from Europe to Russia to North America. They are the world’s largest biome, and make up 29% of the world’s total forest area, as well as 32% of global land-based carbon stocks. Compared with tropical forests, they store twice as much carbon per hectare, much of it in the soil. 

The Northern Hemisphere’s frozen soils and peatlands hold an estimated 1,700 billion tonnes of carbon – four times more than humans have emitted since the industrial revolution, and twice as much as is currently in the atmosphere. 

That means these forests play a key role in mitigating climate change – but at the same time, they are intensely affected by it: boreal forests are warming faster than any other forest biome.

Read this info brief to find out more about the boreal forests in Mongolia, which are among the world's most important. Boreal forests stretch across Mongolia’s north. They cover 14.2 million hectares – 9 percent of the country – and provide important benefits for this developing nation, as well as an important source of livelihood. 

The factsheet on Guidelines on sustainable forest management in drylands of Ethiopia is a brochure that informs forestry practitioners in Ethiopia about the completion of the technical publication: Guidelines on sustainable forest management in drylands of Ethiopia.