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Land and its natural resources are essential for maintaining biodiversity and related ecological processes. Unfortunately, lands are degrading due to natural and anthropogenic factors, which may eventually lead to desertification. Deforestation significantly emits greenhouse gases that devastatingly lead to global warming and climate change. It necessitates a sustainable solution that promotes reforestation combined with emission reductions. Hence, reducing emissions from forest degradation and deforestation (REDD+) arose as an international policy tool to address the forest sector emissions and sustainable management of forests and their ecosystem services. REDD+ projects promise “triple-win” benefits that include mitigating climate change, conserving biodiversity, and uplifting local communities. In addition, REDD+ potentially contributes toward sustainable development goals (SDGs); and there is a mutual relationship between SDGs and REDD+ that integrate sustainability, management, and conservation. The principal SDGs fulfilled by REDD+ is SDG 13 (climate action) and SDG 15 (life on land). REDD+ opens up a new framework and path for forest management through policy-level changes, multi-stakeholder participation, and carbon credit trades. So, this book chapter discusses and reviews various aspects of REDD+ in reducing land degradation and contributing toward SDGs.
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Siril, S. et al. (2022). Role of REDD+ in Reducing Land Degradation and Achieving SDGs. In: Panwar, P., Shukla, G., Bhat, J.A., Chakravarty, S. (eds) Land Degradation Neutrality: Achieving SDG 15 by Forest Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5478-8_16
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