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The UN negotiations on climate change have led to mixed results for REDD +: progress has been made on how to set levels of baseline emissions and how to measure the emission reductions resulting from forestry initiatives, but the decision on social and environmental safeguards of the program is insufficient, while no progress was made concerning the sources of long-term funding, says the chief scientist at CIFOR for Climate Change.

"Technical barriers to REDD are falling and the decisions taken in Durban on REDD is a vote of confidence in the progress of the scientific community in recent years. Toutefois, nous n'avons pas avancé sur “les coulisses du financement” et sans cela, nous ne pouvons pas parler de viabilité de la REDD », explique Louis Verchot, scientifique en chef au CIFOR. However, we have not advanced "behind the scenes of financing" and without that, we can not talk about the viability of REDD, "said Louis Verchot, chief scientist at CIFOR.