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Land tenure and REDD+: The good, the bad and the ugly
Anne M. Larson,Maria Brockhaus,William D. Sunderlin,Amy E. Duchelle,Andrea Babon,Therese Dokken,Thu Thuy Pham,I. A. P. Resosudarmo,Galia Selaya,A. Awono,Thu Ba Huynh +10 more
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In this paper, a global comparative study on REDD+, led by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFR), was conducted to investigate how tenure concerns are being addressed at both national and project level in emerging REDD+ programs.Abstract:
A number of international donors, national governments and project proponents have begun to lay the groundwork for REDD+, but tenure insecurity - including the potential risks of land grabbing by outsiders and loss of local user rights to forests and forest land - is one of the main reasons that many indigenous and other local peoples have publicly opposed it. Under what conditions is REDD+ a threat to local rights, and under what conditions does it present an opportunity? This article explores these issues based on available data from a global comparative study on REDD+, led by the Center for International Forestry Research, which is studying national policies and processes in 12 countries and 23 REDD+ projects in 6 countries. The article analyses how tenure concerns are being addressed at both national and project level in emerging REDD+ programs. The findings suggest that in most cases REDD+ has clearly provided some new opportunities for securing local tenure rights, but that piecemeal interventions by project proponents at the local level are insufficient in the absence of broader, national programs for land tenure reform. The potential for substantial changes in the status quo appear unlikely, though Brazil - the only one with such a national land tenure reform program - offers useful insights. Land tenure reform - the recognition of customary rights in particular - and a serious commitment to REDD+ both challenge the deep-rooted economic and political interests of ‘business as usual'.read more
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Governing deforestation: a governmentality analysis of tropical forests in climate negotiations
TL;DR: In this article, a Foucauldian governmentality perspective is applied to conceptualise the negotiations as a process of contestation where the outcomes validate and target certain governance arrangements, actors and ideas, while subjugating others, with concrete effects for how forest users, forests and the climate will be governed.
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National REDD+ Implications for Tenured Indigenous Communities in Guyana, and Communities’ Impact on Forest Carbon Stocks
TL;DR: It is concluded that, notwithstanding some pending issues, Guyana’s national REDD+ program could be very beneficial for FDP, even under a modest United States (US) $5 unit carbon price.
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How Can Jurisdictional Approaches to Sustainability Protect and Enhance the Rights and Livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
TL;DR: The Guiding Principles of Collaboration (GPC) are a set of 13 universal tenets, which lay out a blueprint for collaboration between subnational state actors, indigenous peoples and local communities to recognize rights, support livelihoods, strengthen participation of forestdependent communities in decision-making, and protect indigenous and community environmental defenders within the context of joint action for climate change mitigation as mentioned in this paper.
Analyzing the environmental injustices of carbon offsetting : the limits of the California-REDD+ Linkage
Abstract: Analyzing the Environmental Injustices of Carbon Offsetting: The Limits of the California-REDD+ Linkage By Matthew Lithgow Emissions from greenhouses gases (GHGs), especially carbon dioxide (CO2), have driven anthropogenic climate change. In response, global policymakers have promoted carbon trading and its subset, carbon offsetting, as approaches to lower these emissions by commodifying GHG reductions for market exchange. Recently, the US state of California has sought to incorporate carbon offsets from a “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation” (REDD+) program in the state of Acre, Brazil, into its own carbon trading scheme. Using a theoretical framework drawn from Marxist Political Economy, I argue that the “California-REDD+ linkage” is an ineffective and unjust method of climate change mitigation, because it prioritizes economic growth over substantial and equitable emissions reductions. By interrogating the environmental and social credibility of REDD+ offsetting, this thesis exposes the limits of market-based environmental strategies to mitigate climate change in a fossil fuel-powered capitalist society. March 8, 2017
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People and Blue Carbon: Conservation and Settlements in the Mangrove Forests of Mexico
TL;DR: In this paper, a spatiotemporal analysis of the inhabitants of this dynamic coastal ecosystem in Mexico was conducted, and the authors found that the numbers of small settlements within mangroves increased during the study period despite a decline in mangrove stands and in the human populations inhabiting them.
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