Description
In recent years, despite many countries having developed and implemented a broad range of actions to halt and revert forest loss and evidence has been accumulating on the policy mixes being applied, their effectiveness, costs and benefits, no systematic effort is done to assess and update the costs-effectiveness nor analyse the costs and benefits of halting deforestation . Other global literature reviews find that most studies emphasize opportunity costs and miss out of other types of costs (e.g., transaction or implementation costs). In this context, definitions of key concepts such as ‘cost’, ‘benefits’, ‘transfers’ or ‘effectiveness’ have not been sufficiently clear.
The objective of the study is to contribute to closing this gap. The proposed study is part of a broadening collaboration between FAO and CIFOR to address issues related to REDD implementation, particularly on economic aspects. In this work, the effort have a greater emphasis focus the on cost-effectiveness of measures. FAO and CIFOR hope to incorporate results from this work into future collaborations, e.g., a future phase that develops and implements estimation of cost efficiency of REDD+ policies and actions.
The study have a global focus and includes the following activities:
- Develop a conceptual framework to clarify key concepts
- Update and expand existing literature review.
- Formulate recommendations for methods estimating costs for jurisdictional REDD+ initiatives
