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Belize Leads REDD+ Effort
posted (May 23, 2019)

The Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation or REDD for short is a major long-term forest-based initiative that's taking place in Belize.  The project was launched today in San Ignacio and we learned how it is tied into the more prudent use of the FOREST resource:

This REDD+ preparedness project is funded by Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, World Bank, Protected Areas Conservation Trust, and Government of Belize and is within the scope of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement which Belize has signed on to. 

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