The REDD+ Partnership serves as an interim platform for its partner countries to scale up actions and finance for initiatives to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) in developing countries. On the second day of the second REDD+ Partnership meeting in 2012, a workshop on the drivers of deforestation and REDD+ was held. Charlene Watson was speaking in the third panel discussion on the role of finance in address the drivers of deforestation.