World Forestry Day reflections – what next for REDD+?

World Forestry Day on 21 March allows us to reflect on the many and varied benefits of forests to communities around the world. One of the biggest of these is the important role forests play in carbon sequestration and storage. Recent attention on forests from the international community has focused on this role in climate change mitigation, particularly through the REDD+ mechanism agreed as part of the UNFCCC agreements reached in Cancun, Mexico in December 2010.