A UN-REDD workshop on ‘Identifying and promoting ecosystem co-benefits from REDD+’ was held from 27th-29th April 2010 in Cambridge, UK, convened by UNEP-WCMC. Forty-four people participated in the workshop, including representatives from five UN-REDD pilot countries, one observer country, and a number of different institutions, agencies and NGOs.

The workshop provided an opportunity for discussion around the ecosystem and social aspects of REDD+. The key objectives were to:

1. Present draft analyses, tools and guidance for addressing ecosystem co-benefits from REDD+ to pilot countries and other stakeholders; and to receive feedback before these products are finalised.

2. Discuss the social, institutional and economic aspects of ecosystem co-benefits.

3. Consider the integration of ecosystem co-benefits into national REDD+ strategies.

4. Arrive at a set of findings, recommendations, and priority actions for how the UN-REDD Programme tackles ecosystem co-benefits (at national and global levels).

5. Foster a ‘community of practice’ on ecosystem co-benefits amongst interested stakeholders.

The workshop resulted in a set of recommendations to the UN-REDD Programme for future work on the co-benefits of REDD+.

• Workshop Proceedings (including recommendations, summaries of discussions, presentation abstracts, final agenda and final list of participants) (pdf, 355Kb)

• What are the ecosystem co-benefits of REDD+ and why do they matter? [Barney Dickson, UNEP-WCMC](pdf, 152Kb)
• The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity (TEEB) on REDD co-benefits [Pavan Sukhdev, TEEB](pdf, 458Kb)
• Safeguarding and enhancing the ecosystem co-benefits of REDD+ [Lera Miles, UNEP-WCMC](pdf, 803Kb)
• Financial incentive mechanisms for ecosystem co-benefits [Katia Karousakis, OECD](pdf, 272Kb)
• Tools for assessing ecosystem co-benefits of REDD+ [Emily McKenzie, Natural Capital Project](pdf, 1.5Mb)
• Equity and ecosystem co-benefits in REDD+: lessons from the social co-benefits debate [Leo Peskett, ODI](pdf, 120Kb)
• Community-based measuring, reporting and verification (MRV) [Mandar Trivedi, Global Canopy Programme](pdf, 849Kb)

• Panama co-benefits [Jesus Enrique Salazar, Panamanian National Environment Authority](pdf, 1Mb)
• Ecuador: Ensuring co-benefits through the implementation of a REDD+ mechanism [Daniela Carrion, Ecuadorian Ministry of Environment](pdf, 831Kb)
• REDD Preliminary vision on co-benefits from REDD+ in DRC [Jean Ilunga Muneng, DRC MENCT and Muchuba DRC Civil Society Working Group](pdf, 64Kb)
• REDD+ ecosystem co-benefits in Tanzania [Felician Kilahama, Tanzanian MNRT](pdf, 363Kb)
• Co-benefits initiative in Zambia [Anna Chileshe Masinja, Zambian Forestry Department](pdf, 1.1Mb)
• Indonesia: Identifying and promoting ecosystem co-benefits from REDD+ [Syaiful Ramadhan and Ima Yudin Rayaningtyas, Indonesian Ministry of Forestry](pdf, 1.3Mb)
• Relationships and synergies between monitoring systems for carbon stock change and ecosystem co-benefits in REDD+ [Maurizio Teobaldelli, UNEP-WCMC](pdf, 770Kb)

• REDD+ Social and Environmental Standards Initiative [Joanna Durbin, CCBA](pdf, 75Kb)
• Risk-based approach to readiness social standards [Estelle Fach, UNDP](pdf, 652Kb)
• GEF financing to achieve multiple benefits from forest ecosystems: Sustainable Forest Management and REDD+ [Mohamed I. Bakarr, GEF](pdf, 1.7Mb)
• REDD+ and the CBD Forest Programme of Work: Synergies and further research needs [Anne-Marie Wilson, CBD Secretariat](pdf, 721Kb)
• Developed country perspectives on co-benefits [Andreas Tveteraas, Norwegian Ministry of Environment](pdf, 31Kb)
• Supplementary slides on UNEP-WCMC work on co-benefits and REDD+ [Barney Dickson, UNEP-WCMC](pdf, 1.8Mb)