The social impacts of REDD on indigenous peoples and local communities who are dependent on forests has been controversial since REDD was included in the Bali Road Map at COP 13 in 2007. But over the past ten years, debate over whether REDD projects are desirable has been, to some extent at least, marginalised by…
Tag: Safeguards
REDD safeguards: Response (or lack of one) from the REDD+ Safeguards Working Group
The REDD+ Safeguards Working Group declined to respond to REDD-Monitor’s 10 questions on REDD safeguards.
REDD Safeguards: 10 answers from Maria Brockhaus and Amy Duchelle (CIFOR)
A couple of weeks ago, REDD-Monitor sent 10 questions about REDD safeguards by email to five experts on the subject of REDD and safeguards. This is the first response, from Maria Brockhaus and Amy Duchelle at the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
How the World Bank’s safeguards failed to uphold human rights in Honduras and Kenya
At COP16 in Cancun at the end of 2010, parties to the UNFCCC agreed that, “Parties should, in all climate change related actions, fully respect human rights.” Since then, however, there has been no further guidance. And the word “should” rather than “shall” is worrying, to say the least.
The Bonn 2015 decision on REDD safeguards
In December 2013, UN climate negotiators agreed the Warsaw Framework for REDD plus. This included a decision on summary of information on safeguards. At the time I described this decision as staggeringly weak. The decision reached in Bonn earlier this month, manages to make the text even weaker.