REDD+

Question 1

what is REDD?

Answer 1

stress purchasable offsets of forest, targeted especially at marginal communities, indigenous groups, and other, typically poorer communities, in forested and deforested areas.

Question 2

Non-UNFCCC actions

Answer 2

funds

voluntary carbon markets

Question 3

what are the non-UNFCCC actions?

Answer 3

funds

voluntary carbon markets

Question 4

what are the UN REDD+ Implementation barriers?

Answer 4

baseline data difficult
permanence/time scale
additionality
perverse incentives
leakage
doesn’t address the underlying driver of deforestation Declining cost of carbon
Who gets the money? How will benefits be distributed?

Question 5

what are the UN REDD+ Indigenous rights?

Answer 5

relocation, land-grabbing/expropriation

banning traditional practices/ways of life

Question 6

what are the UN REDD+ summary of critiques?

Answer 6

not a real solution to global climate change, just delays needed reductions in emissions
forests are valued mainly as carbon stocks
new form of land grabbing
replaces old-growth forests with plantations