Jurisdictional REDD+

Jurisdictional REDD+

• Concept and set of programs where an entire jurisdiction (e.g., state, province, country) implements REDD+ across its territory, rather than only at project scale.
• Typically involves government-led accounting of emissions reductions from deforestation and forest degradation, often linked to results-based payments or market mechanisms.

Relevance in this brain

• CTrees provides independent forest carbon and land-use data that can support jurisdictional REDD+ MRV.
• Closely connected to:
  • Governors' Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF Task Force) – subnational coalition working on jurisdictional REDD+.
  • Science Panel for the Congo Basin – informs science and policy for Congo Basin jurisdictions.
  • Country and subnational nodes such as Gabon and other forest jurisdictions where CTrees or similar data may support jurisdictional approaches.

Relevance for climate finance

• Provides a framework for large-scale, government-led emissions reductions from deforestation/forest degradation that can be linked to:
  • Article 6 mechanisms (international transfers of mitigation outcomes at jurisdictional scale).
  • Jurisdictional VCM crediting (e.g., standards that issue credits at state/province or national level rather than project-by-project).
• Shifts key risks and incentives:
  • Moves performance and policy risk from individual projects to sovereign and subnational governments.
  • Creates new questions around sovereign credit risk, policy durability, and revenue-sharing with local actors.
• In this brain, CTrees’ role is as a potential independent MRV data provider for such programs, affecting how investors and regulators assess the integrity of jurisdictional claims.