High-Biodiversity REDD+: Operationalising Safeguards and Delivering Environmental Co-benefits

This paper aims to explore the different policy options at international and national levels to encourage high-biodiversity REDD+; examining options that go beyond doing no harm, as expressed in the Cancun safeguards, to encouraging REDD+ strategies and activities that directly, or indirectly, benefit biodiversity. The paper is directed mainly at policymakers in developing countries to inform them about options that will come up in international negotiations, and to review and discuss options to promote biodiversity in the design of national REDD+ strategies and programs.