Experience and lessons learnt from the development process of REDD+ safeguards15 could be used to assist the design of environmental and social safeguards for climate change adaptation finance mechanisms. The key challenge for both REDD+ and EbA is to interpret and customise the over-arching principles at national and local-specific levels, developing criteria and indicators which are specific enough to reflect local circumstances, yet still align with the core principles of safeguards. This is critical because countries have different biodiversity and development priorities, and the interactions between biodiversity and climate change vary across spatial scales. It is good practice to make reports publicly available and to conduct independent third-party verification. Under the CCBA voluntary certification scheme, for example, project proponents are required to disseminate their full monitoring plan and the results of monitoring, ensuring that they are made publicly available on the internet and are communicated to the communities and other stakeholders. Project validation and verification are conducted by an accredited third-party auditor, and require site visits (CCBA, 2010).