REDD+ and Biodiversity Conservation: A Review of the Biodiversity Goals, Monitoring Methods, and Impacts of 80 REDD+ Projects

Conservation Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 143-150

  Panfil, Steven N ^a   Harvey, Celia A ^a  

^a Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Biodiversity conservation; Biodiversity monitoring; Climate, Community and Biodiversity (CCB) Standards; Co benefits; Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD); Forest carbon projects; REDD+; Reforestation; Safeguards

Indexed keywords

EID: 84934775132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12188     Document Type: Article

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