A key focus for the Climate Change and Biodiversity Programme is the role that ecosystems can play in climate change mitigation and adaptation and disaster risk reduction, through approaches such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) and Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA). The Programme aims to support the development of climate change policies and actions that deliver a range of environmental benefits, by providing decision-makers with relevant data, analyses, capacity-building and tools. This 12-week internship will contribute to the preparation of a peer-reviewed scientific assessment report on the latest available knowledge on the effects of REDD+ implementation. This work aims to provide an update on the Global Assessment Report published in 2012 by