REDD+ at risk: Emerging ten questions that REDD+ must answer
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Aryal, Kishor, Maraseni, Tek, Subedi, Bhishma Prasad, Laudari, Hari Krishna, Ghimire, Puspa Lal, Khanal, Sudarshan Chandra, Zhang, Han and Timilsina, Ramesh. 2024. "REDD+ at risk: Emerging ten questions that REDD+ must answer
." Environmental Science and Policy. 156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103744
| Article Title | REDD+ at risk: Emerging ten questions that REDD+ must answer |
|---|---|
| ERA Journal ID | 36370 |
| Article Category | Article |
| Authors | Aryal, Kishor, Maraseni, Tek, Subedi, Bhishma Prasad, Laudari, Hari Krishna, Ghimire, Puspa Lal, Khanal, Sudarshan Chandra, Zhang, Han and Timilsina, Ramesh |
| Journal Title | Environmental Science and Policy |
| Journal Citation | 156 |
| Article Number | 103744 |
| Number of Pages | 9 |
| Year | 2024 |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Place of Publication | United States |
| ISSN | 1462-9011 |
| 1873-6416 | |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103744 |
| Web Address (URL) | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1462901124000789 |
| Abstract | As an important initiative of climate action, REDD+ has been increasingly discussed in global policy arena. But delay in wider scale yet full-fledged implementation and its poor performance have raised suspects and pushed REDD+ toward in a long line of “conservation fad”. In this paper, we have discussed the following ten questions to REDD+: (1) Does REDD+ address major causes of deforestation? (2) Does REDD+ contribute to global emissions reduction? (3) Does REDD+ recognize the inherent capacity of local people to manage their forests? (4) Does REDD+ respect the rights of indigenous people and local communities? (5) Does REDD+ justify the local governance and countries’ sovereignty? (6) Does REDD+ ensure the transparency in program design and architecture? (7) Does REDD+ give credits to the carbon sequestering communities? (8) Does REDD+ supply sufficient reasons to justify the current carbon price? (9) Does REDD+ achieve climate goals through the voluntary carbon markets? and (10) Does REDD+ ensure sustainability of the ongoing projects? While discussing the questions, we have referred to global environmental issues of deforestation, emissions, transparency, decentralized governance, indigenous and local communities, voluntary carbon market, price effect, and other various contemporary sustainability issues. We argue that REDD+ could be a low-hanging fruit and act as a complimentary action to achieve its climate goal if it can address the issues raised under those ten questions. |
| Keywords | Deforestation |
| Contains Sensitive Content | Does not contain sensitive content |
| ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 300202. Agricultural land management |
| Byline Affiliations | Chinese Academy of Sciences, China |
| Institute for Life Sciences and the Environment | |
| Institute for Life Sciences and the Environment | |
| Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Forests and Environment, Nepal | |
| Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources, Nepal | |
| University of Melbourne | |
| Northwest Agriculture & Forestry University, China | |
| Federation of Community Forestry Users, Nepal |
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