Additional Guidance on REDD+ Safeguards Information Systems

To obtain results-based finance for REDD+, developing country Parties should have in place a system for providing information on how safeguards are addressed and respected - a safeguards information system (SIS). Some guidance was provided on these systems, and Parties agreed that in Bonn in May 2012, SBSTA would consider the need for further guidance to “ensure  transparency,  consistency,  comprehensiveness  and effectiveness  when  informing  on  how  all  safeguards  are  addressed  and  respected  and,  if  appropriate,  to consider additional guidance” and report to COP18.2  They  also  agreed  that  a  summary  of  information  on  how the safeguards are being addressed and respected should be provided periodically and in national communications by developing country Parties undertaking REDD+ activities, or through communication channels agreed by the COP, and tasked the Bonn SBSTA meeting with discussing the timing and frequency of the summaries.3