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Land Use and Climate Change
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The Conference of the Parties (COP) and the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to
the Kyoto Protocol (CMP) through their permanent subsidiary bodies, i.e. Subsidiary Body for Scientific and
Technological Advice (SBSTA) and Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), and other bodies established under
them undertake work on a number of matters relating to land use, including issues relating to agriculture; land
use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF); and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in
developing countries (REDD).
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Issues relating to agriculture
The Conference of the Parties at its seventeenth session, held in Durban in 2011, by decision 2/CP.17
"Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the
Convention" requested the SBSTA to consider issues relating to agriculture, with the aim of
exchanging views.
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Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF)
Human activities related to land use influence the exchange of greenhouse gases between terrestrial
ecosystems and the atmosphere and hence have an impact on climate change. Land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF)
emissions and removals have been addressed in the Convention and Kyoto Protocol processes.
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Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries
(REDD+)
The Conference of the Parties (COP), at its 13th session, affirmed the urgent need to taker
further meaningful action to reduce
emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (often referred to by
the acronym REDD+). At its nineteenth session, the COP adopted the Warsaw Framework for REDD+, which provides guidance
on several essential aspects of REDD+ implementation. These web pages give an
overview of on-going and past negotiations on REDD+ under the UNFCCC.
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REDD+ Web Platform
The Conference of the Parties (COP) encouraged all Parties, relevant organizations and stakeholders
to share information on REDD+ implementation. It requested the secretariat to develop a
REDD+ Web Platform
where such information will be made available. Parties further decided that the REDD+ Web Platform
will contain an interactive REDD+ discussion forum to
enhance sharing of information, experiences and lessons learned on the use of the IPCC guidance and
guidelines. The REDD+ Web Platform also contains submissions of forest reference emission levels and/or forest reference
levels by developing country Parties.
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