Reporting REDD: A Journalist’s Guide to the Role of Forests in Combating Global Climate Change

This manual consists of a media pack which aims to give journalists an overview of a key issue in global climate change negotiations. Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) is a mechanism to slow the loss of forests, but how it is going to work in practice is the subject of debate. This document briefly explains how the REDD mechanism might work and raises some of the key controversies to be resolved. It is accompanied by a short film, which looks at the possible effects of REDD on forest communities and contains interviews with different stakeholders including environmental journalists on reporting the subject, and by a video news release on REDD, which includes interviews with forest communities, campaigners, economists and politicians.