In 2018 eight cities from Accra to Dar es salaam pledge to deliver there share of emission cuts need to meet global targets to limit climate change. Africa is sometimes better known for   to climate change than its vulnerability to climate change than its action on the problem ;but set of Africa cities intend to change that.

The United Nations Program on Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation or UNREDD Program,  Is a collaborative program  of the  FOOD and Agriculture Organization of the United National FAO The United National Development Program UNDP and The National Environment Program UNEP created in 2008.

The overall development goal of the program is to reduce forest emission and enhance carbon stocks in forest while contributing to national sustainable development.

The UNREDD  program  support Nationally led REDD  processes and promotes the informed and meaningful involvement  of all stakeholders, including indigenous people and others forest department communities, in national and international REDD implementation.

The program  expanded steadily since its establishment and has over 60 official partner countries  spanning Africa, Asia , Pacific and Latin America Caribbean. In addition to the UNREDD program other initiatives assisting Countries that are engaged  in REDD include the World Banks  Forest Carbon partnership Facility, Norway's International Forest Carbon Initiatives, The Global  Environment Facility ,Australia's International Forest Carbon Initiative, the Collaborative Partnership on  Forest ,and the green Climate Fund. Uganda has begun become the first American country to submit result  for reducing emission from deforestation and forest degradation REDD to the united nations framework Convention on Climate change UNFCCC. REDD  is a means developed by the parties to the  UNFCCC to reduce emission from deforestation and forest degradation.

The result submission to the UNFCCC has paved the way for potential result base payment to the country ,the Food and Agriculture Organization FAO. Result based payments comprise the final REDD phase .It provide financial incentives to developing  countries that  prove they stopped deforestation during  a certain period  of time, this is done through rigorous UN  backed  technical  evaluations .Uganda claimed  it reduced  emission by 8,070,694 tones of carbon dioxide for 2015 -2017, in document prepared  by its ministry of water and environment , the  REDD – Secretariat and National forested authority. One Concern was that Uganda’s  forested are could have disappeared  within the coming century, if deforestation was not reigned in The country’s forest  cover has depleted to 8 per cent from 24 per cent in the 1990s, largely  attributed to human encroachment.