Any proposal to reduce deforestation must find a way of addressing the causes of deforestation. So if REDD is a serious attempt to reduce deforestation it must address the causes of deforestation. But a recent paper by three of CIFOR’s scientists found that causes of deforestation are not part of discussions about REDD.
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International Law Principles for REDD+: Indian Law Resource Center
Leonardo A. Crippa and Gretchen Gordon of the Indian Law Resource Center have produced a document titled “International Law Principles for REDD+: The Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the Obligations of REDD+ Actors” (pdf file, 688.4 KB). The document is an updated version of a working draft released in May 2012, the changes reflecting recent…
It’s official: COP19 will not discuss how to address climate change
The carbon budget is a simple, but very important concept. It is based on the fact that what matters in addressing climate change is not what governments agree to do by 2050, but the total quantity of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Carbon markets are not providing “long-term, scaled-up, predictable, new and additional finance”
Two stories about the current failure of carbon trading as a way of raising money to address climate change: First, the Adaptation Fund, which has seen its income from a tax on carbon credits dry up; Second, an exchange between Conservation International and the World Bank, which are both pro-carbon trading, but only one seems…
Climate change at the World Bank: “You can imagine a future world where carbon is really the currency of the 21st century”
Earlier this week, Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank and Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund spoke about climate change. This was the first time that the two have spoken together in public about climate change.