CCAP is contributing to the creation of an effective international REDD support framework through our our Future Actions Dialogue and ongoing roundtables with senior-level climate negotiators at the international level on forestry-related issues for both Annex I and developing countries, and our analysis of the REDD and forestry provisions included in national climate change legislation under consideration in the U.S.

At the ground level, CCAP builds capacity to help prepare key developing countries including Brazil, Cambodia, Indonesia and Mexico to participate in a post-2012 international REDD regime.  CCAP accomplishes this in-country work by collaborating with high-level forest negotiators, administrators, stakeholders and researchers to understand national and local drivers of deforestation, identify potential solutions and the financial support required, and assist governments with designing and implementing policies that will provide the foundation for successful REDD programs. 

Emissions from deforestation contribute close to one-fifth of net global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions annually, most of which occur in developing countries.  At the international level, the design of effective support for REDD efforts in developing countries is a central priority in the creation of a post-2012 global climate change treaty under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

• Provides substantial, predictable, results-based, and long-term financial flows to developing countries;
•  Achieves measureable and verifiable reductions in emissions from deforestation and forest degradation;
• Promotes sustainable forest management and conservation;
• Promotes the well-being and involvement of local communities and indigenous people, and
• Contributes to the protection of biodiversity, climate resilience, and the many other non-carbon benefits that forests provide.