Publication

This issue features the relationship between adaptation and REDD+, drawing attention to how forests can increase the resilience of communities to impending climate change impacts and how REDD+ can help or hinder this process. The bulletin illustrates climate change impacts on forest distribution and species composition under different scenarios, taking an example from northeastern United States. It also provides concrete examples of forest-based adaptation in action that contribute directly to increased climate resilience of local communities, reaffirming a need for incorporating adaptation within REDD