This report presents the results of spatial analyses that can assist decision-makers in planning for REDD+ in a way that generates multiple benefits, and explores the possible contributions that REDD+ can make to the achievement of other policy goals such as the Aichi Biodiversity Targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity, or the objectives of Peru’s National Climate Change Strategy with regard to adaptation.

Specifically, the present report shows some examples of how analyses of spatial data can support REDD+ planning processes and coherent implementation of different policies related to the use of land and natural resources. It presents the outcomes of a series of spatial analyses to support multiple benefits from REDD+ that were conducted jointly by the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) and Peru’s Ministry for the Environment (MINAM, through its REDD+ MINAM Project) in 2014. The report also draws on other recent work that has been carried out in Peru as part of the preparations for REDD+ at the national level, including a study on potential priority areas for REDD+, and explains how the results presented can feed back into these ongoing processes.