Active Governments
REDD has been well received by national governments of both developing and developed countries. Several developing countries have already developed their national REDD+ plans or strategies (UN-REDD and FPPF, 2012) and remarkably were already achieved by key countries like Brazil(UNEP, 2011) and Indonesia. At the 2007 Bali Conference, the Norwegian government announced their International Climate and Forests Initiative, which provided $1 billion towards the Brazilian REDD scheme and $500 million towards the creation and implementation of national-based, REDD activities in the nation of Tanzania. In addition, the Government of Norway and United Kingdom contributed $200 million towards the Congo Basin Forest Fund to aid forest conservation actives in Central Africa.
In 2009, the Government of Finland and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations signed a $17 million partnership agreement to provide tools and methods for multi-purpose forest inventories, REDD+ monitoring and climate change adaptation in five pilot countries - Ecuador, Peru, Tanzania, Viet Nam and Zambia - for sustainable forest management. As part of this programme, the Government of Tanzania will soon complete the country’s first comprehensive forest inventory to assess its forest resources including the size of the carbon stock stored within its forests. A forest soil carbon monitoring program to estimate soil carbon stock, using both survey and modelling-based methods, has also been undertaken.
Australia has joined the efforts to promote REDD mechanisms. Their $200 million International Forest Carbon Initiative focused on developing REDD activities in the region, i.e., in areas like Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. The governments of Spain and Denmark have recently become donors to the UN-REDD Programme.
In 2010, national governments of developing and developed countries joined efforts to create the Interim REDD+ Partnership as means to enhance implementation of early action and foster fast start finance for REDD+ actions.
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