Jurisdictional REDD+ projects are a mixed reduction-and-removal project type within the land & forests segment of the carbon market. They involve forest-sector reductions and removals accounted at a jurisdictional or national scale rather than only at individual project scale. In practice, the climate outcome is measured as jurisdiction-scale reductions and removals from REDD+ activities. Common project configurations include State- or country-level REDD+ crediting under a jurisdictional standard.

At larger scales, the promise is better alignment with public policy and lower leakage risk, but governance quality and reference-level setting become even more important. These projects can protect large carbon stocks and important ecosystems, but their credibility depends heavily on baseline setting, leakage control, permanence, and the strength of social and land-rights safeguards. For buyers and program designers, the most important diligence questions are: How are nesting, benefit sharing, leakage, rights, and national accounting handled? Is the jurisdictional baseline robust?