The Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Elliott Harris, highlighted the role of UNEP, along with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in initiating the United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (UN-REDD) to support nationally led REDD-plus results-based payment processes. He also referred to the role of UNEP in helping countries to work towards achieving the Bonn Challenge through the restoration of degraded and deforested land. In addition, he said that UNEP had presented an analysis of private sector finance for forests to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Standing Committee on Finance.