Donor: European Commission (through Macaulay Land Use Research Institute)

This will be achieved through specific objectives of:

a) Documenting the diversity in social, cultural, economic and ecological drivers of forest transition andconservation, and the consequences, in the contexts of selected case study areas in Indonesia, Vietnam,Cameroon, and Peru as representative of different stages of forest transition in Southeast Asia, Africa andSouth America.

b) Quantifying rates of forest conversion and change in forest carbon stocks using improved methods.

c) Improving accounting (methods, default values) of the consequences of land use change for GHGemissions in tropical forest margins including peatlands.

d) Identifying and assessing viable policy options addressing the drivers of deforestation and their consistencywith policy approaches on avoided deforestation currently being discussed in UNFCCC and other relevantinternational processes.

e) Analysing scenarios in selected case study areas of the local impacts of potential international climatechange policies on GHG emission reductions, land use and livelihoods.

f) Developing new negotiation support tools and using these with stakeholders at international, national andlocal scales to explore a basket of options for incorporating REDD into post-2012 climate agreements.