WWF Guide to Building REDD+ Strategies

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1. Section III C of Decision 1/CP.16
2. Appendix I of Decision 1/CP.16.
3. Decision 12/CP.17.
4. See UNDRIP Articles 10, 11, 15, 17,
19, 28, 29, 30, 32, 36 and 38
5. The United Nations Declaration on
the Rights of Indigenous Peoples affirms in its Article 3 that
“indigenous peoples have the right to self-determination.
By virtue of that right they freely determine their political
status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural
development”.
6. See e.g. Decision Ix/16, Decision x/33, Decision x/2
and Decision xI/19.
7. Decision x/2.
8. It should be noted that while FCPF’s safeguards are
mandatory, SEPC is voluntary.
9. web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/ExTERNAL/PROJECTS/
ExTPOLICIES/ExTSAFEPOL/0,,menuPK:584441~pag
ePK:64168427~piPK:64168435~theSitePK:584435,00.
html.
10. go.worldbank.org/WTA1ODE7T0
11. www.un-redd.org/multiple_benefits_sepc/tabid/54130/
default.aspx
12. www.redd-standards.org
13. Zero Net Deforestation and Forest Degradation
(ZNDD): WWF defines ZNDD as no net forest loss
through deforestation and no net decline in forest
quality through degradation. ZNDD provides some
flexibility: it is not quite the same as no forest clearing
anywhere, under any circumstances. For instance,
it recognizes people’s right to clear some forests for
agriculture, or the value in occasionally “trading off”
degraded forests to free up other land to restore
important biological corridors, provided that
biodiversity values and net quantity and quality
of forests are maintained.
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