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Additional Guidance on REDD+ Safeguards Information Systems
May, 2012. REDD+ Safeguards Information System Working Group. Briefing Paper. 4 pages
Summary
To obtain results-based finance for REDD+, developing country Parties should have in place a system for providing information on how safeguards are addressed and respected – a safeguards information system (SIS). Some guidance was provided on these systems, and Parties agreed that in Bonn in May 2012, SBSTA would consider the need for further guidance to “ensure transparency, consistency, comprehensiveness and effectiveness when informing on how all safeguards are addressed and respected and, if appropriate, to consider additional guidance” and report to COP18.2 They also agreed that a summary of information on how the safeguards are being addressed and respected should be provided periodically and in national communications by developing country Parties undertaking REDD+ activities, or through communication channels agreed by the COP, and tasked the Bonn SBSTA meeting with discussing the timing and frequency of the summaries. This briefing paper describes why such additional guidance would be useful.
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Keywords: b. International Policy, n. Social Aspects, Other Publications, p. Governance Aspects, Bonn, COP 17, REDD, REDD+ SIS, Safeguards, Safeguards Information Systems, SBSTA, SIS