This analytical report stresses that where and how REDD+ is implemented, its actions may generate other benefits in addition to maintaining and enhancing carbon stocks. These co-benefits can include ecosystem and social benefits such as biodiversity conservation, maintenance of ecosystem services and improvement of local people’s livelihoods. Planning for co-benefits provides an opportunity for countries to achieve more than GHG savings when implementing REDD+. This report presents the result of spatial analyses to support this planning process in Ecuador.
Organization: UNEP, Ministry of Environment of Ecuador, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of Germany, Federal Agency for Nature Conservation of Germany
Topics: Land Use Management, Forestry, Mining, Mitigation, REDD, Biodiversity, Ecosystems
Type of material: Analytical-Technical Document
Publication date: 2010
Language: English, Spanish