REDD+
The REDD+ framework, activities, safeguards, monitoring and results.
REDD+ Activities
| REDD+ activity | Included |
|---|---|
| Reducing Emissions from Deforestation | Yes |
| Reducing Emissions from Forest Degradation | Yes |
| Conservation of Forest | No |
| Sustainable Management of Forest | Yes |
| Enhancement of forest carbon stocks | Yes |
How each activity is defined in Kenya
- Reducing emissions from deforestation: conversion of natural forest to non-forest (canopy falling below the 15% threshold). Drivers include conversion to cropland, slash-and-burn, excessive fuelwood harvest, fire and illegal logging.
- Reducing emissions from forest degradation: emissions in natural forest remaining natural forest (a fall in canopy class). Drivers include firewood and charcoal production, fire and illegal selective logging.
- Sustainable management of forests: limited to KFS public plantation forests; conversion between planted and non-planted plantation area. All thinning and rotation from cutting to planting within the plantation boundary of gazetted forests.
- Enhancement of forest carbon stocks: a rise in canopy class within natural forest, or conversion of non-forest to natural forest through human activity such as enrichment planting and protection.
- Conservation of forest carbon stocks: not included.
The four REDD+ activities as defined in Kenya
| Activity | What it means in Kenya |
|---|---|
| Reducing emissions from deforestation | Avoiding conversion of forest land to other land uses |
| Reducing emissions from forest degradation | Avoiding loss of carbon stocks within forest that remains forest (fall in canopy class) |
| Enhancement of forest carbon stocks | Afforestation, reforestation and canopy improvement |
| Sustainable management of forests | Zero net emissions from public plantations through sustainable harvesting cycles (harvest matched by replanting) |
How Kenya will deliver them: five strategic options
1. Scale up afforestation, reforestation and landscape restoration
Why: Large-scale, sustained tree growing is needed to reach the constitutional target of at least 10% tree cover and the 5.1 million ha restoration pledge (AFR100, Bonn Challenge) by 2030.
- Tree growing on public, community and private land
- Restoring degraded natural forests and landscapes
- Agroforestry and farm forestry
KFS, KEFRI, county governments, CFAs, private sector
Each option has a theory of change and assigned responsibilities among national and county institutions, communities and the private sector; the Forest Investment Plan, developed in parallel, is the implementation vehicle.
Source: Ministry of Environment and Forestry, National Forest Monitoring System in the Republic of Kenya, Version 1 (Draft), February 2021. Chapter 3.6.2 and 3.6.3.
Source: National REDD+ Strategy, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, December 2021.