The REDD-PAC project, a collaboration between the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) and the Central African Forestry Commission (COMIFAC), and UNEP-WCMC, aims to support the identification of REDD+ policies that are economically efficient, socially fair, can safeguard and enhance ecosystem values, and can help meet CBD goals. Activities within the project have included:

• Work with project partners and other national colleagues to adapt and apply the global economic model GLOBIOM to enable an assessment of how the possible impacts of public policy in Brazil would impact emissions, agricultural production and biodiversity. The resulting GLOBIOM-Brazil model was validated using improved national data and its findings were taken into account by Brazilian decision makers when developing the country's intended nationally determined contribution (INDC), submitted to UNFCCC COP-21 in Paris in 2015. 
• Work with COMIFAC and national colleagues in three Congo Basin countries to support national and regional REDD+ policy development and NBSAP development in the Congo Basin. Work has included both the development of an atlas of carbon and biodiversity and the application of land-use change modelling to explore the impacts of regionally appropriate policy options and scenarios. Workshops have brought together the CBD and REDD+ national focal points. The work has helped enable countries to take the contribution and impacts of REDD+ into consideration when developing their NBSAPs and related policies. 
• Work with partners in China, Peru, the Philippines, Uganda, and Viet Nam to produce maps that can be used as decision-making tools to support planning for REDD+ that delivers multiple benefits specific to country needs. 

The REDD-PAC project was funded by the German government through its International Climate Initiative, and ran between November 2011 and May 2016.