Five years of REDD+ governance: the use of market mechanisms as a response to anthropogenic climate change
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Article Title | Five years of REDD+ governance: the use of market mechanisms as a response to anthropogenic climate change |
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ERA Journal ID | 5674 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | Cadman, Timothy (Author), Maraseni, Tek (Author), Ok Ma, Hwan (Author) and Lopez-Casero, Federico (Author) |
Journal Title | Forest Policy and Economics |
Journal Citation | 79, pp. 8-16 |
Number of Pages | 9 |
Year | 2017 |
Place of Publication | Netherlands |
ISSN | 1389-9341 |
1872-7050 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2016.03.008 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389934116300399 |
Abstract | Forest ecosystems worldwide are increasingly subjected to human intervention, leading commentators to argue that forests should be viewed as anthropogenic ecosystems. REDD+ is an emerging inter-governmental policy instrument aimed at both reducing deforestation and forest degradation and combatting climate change, whereby developed countries pay developing countries to reduce their forest-based emissions. The paper details a five-year research project to evaluate REDD+quality of governance and develop governance standards for the mechanism. Quality of governance was evaluated in five key international institutional elements: the REDD+related negotiations in the global climate talks; the support and funding agencies UN-REDD, Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), Forest Investment Programme (FIP) and the REDD+ Partnership. This research was complemented by national level governance assessments and related standards setting initiatives in Nepal and Papua New Guinea. The researchers conclude that REDD+confronts a number of challenges, notably around resources for capacity building, and benefit sharing. In addition, the lack of provisions for changing behaviour and solving the problem of forest-based emissions in the current safeguards render them inadequate to the task of |
Keywords | anthropogenic forests; forest policy; governance standards; Nepal; Papua New Guinea; REDD+; sustainable forest management |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 410406. Natural resource management |
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Byline Affiliations | Griffith University |
Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development | |
International Tropical Timber Organization, Japan | |
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q37vw/five-years-of-redd-governance-the-use-of-market-mechanisms-as-a-response-to-anthropogenic-climate-change
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