Delegates from countries that have taken up the REDD forest pledge

The Wilderness Society have initiated a REDD forest pledge. (View the Forest Pledge PDF)

By signing this pledge, countries and Non-Government Organisations have promised to support inclusion of text for protecting intact natural forest and restoring degraded natural forest as a core objective of a REDD mechanism. This includes protecting the rights and interests of indigenous peoples and forest communities in such forests. A REDD mechanism will only be effective at reducing emissions if helps indigenous peoples to protect their local forests and recognises that such forests have historically been cared for by them.

List of countries whose delegates have taken up the REDD forest pledge

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   Mr. Joe Pokana, Mitigation Director, Office of Climate Change, Papua New Guinea, signs the Forest Pledge while youth look on. PNG has 5.1 million hectares of intact natural forests. Image: The Wilderness Society Collection

   Paraguay
2. Papua New Guinea
3. Indonesia
4. Malawi
5. Serbia
6. Nigeria
7. Mexico
8. Solomon Islands
9. Fiji
10. Denmark
11. Nauru
12. Netherlands
13. Cuba
14. Sierra Leone
    
    Countries signed on in Barcelona - the final climate negotiations before Copenhagen:
    
    
15. Ghana
16. Gambia
17. Montenegro
18. Bangladesh
19. Ethiopia
20. Maldives
21. Central African Republic
22. Bhutan
23. Seychelles
24. Burundi
25. Namibia
26. Sri Lanka
27. Mauritania
28. Zimbabwe
29. Kenya
30. Cape Verde
31. Nepal
32. Burkina Faso
33. Botswana
34. Sudan
35. Cambodia
36. Philippines
37. Lesotho
38. Guinea
39. France
    
    Countries signed on in Copenhagen climate negotiations (COP15):
    
    
40. Brazil
41. Iraq
42. Pakistan
43. Ghana
44. Thailand
45. Niger
46. Cameroon
47. Hungary
48. Morocco
49. Mali
50. Togo
51. Bolivia
52. Tanzania
    
    

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The Wilderness Society's International Climate Team is working hard at the UN climate talks and we urgently need your help. The protection of the world's forests needs to be part of the global solution to avoid dangerous climate change. Sign the forest pledge today and ask Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to secure a safe climate for our future, by making sure the next global climate deal protects the world's forests >>