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Africa is actively exploring the opportunities presented by carbon markets to address substantial gaps in climate finance.
This interactive brief summarizes the development process and UNDP’s supported actions of the Regulatory Framework for REDD+ Projects in Cambodia.
The size and scale of the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) has increased dramatically over recent years. With this, there has also been an emergence of various global initiatives aiming to guide the integrity of the VCM. While some positive steps are being taken towards gender equality, defining safeguarding criteria and promoting high integrity carbon credits, recent research and global policy dialogues suggest the current VCM landscape still uses varying degrees of social and environmental safeguards, with gender being often the least regarded aspect, sometimes even neglected.
18 September 2023, New York - As representatives of governments meet for the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly, UNDP and Climate Focus are launching a guidance to support policymakers to take decisions on short-term climate action in the land sector that will facilitate their countries’ long-term strategic efforts to achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century.