REDD - mitigation of global warming Flashcards
what does REDD stand for?
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation in developing countries
why?
paid to protect the rainforest
who does it direct at?
countries with rainforestest
Who get paid
countries who plant and protect
who pays for it?
the UN in taxes of countries which are HICS and emit large volumes of CO2
what has happened to Brazil?
make more money than if you cut it down and leave it alone
How do they monitor it?
through satellite technology
local - why has it failed?
indigenous people often have no legal right over their land
- unstastainable for people in global north
-communit land rights not recognised
how many people depend on the forest directly?
1/6
global - why has it failed?
buy carbon credit instead of reducing - money goes to the middle man not to the people
why can they produce more c02?
if you can pay Brazil gov or other countries since there isn a large market e.g. Tesla payoff lamvourgine - can say they are net zero
no international definition of what?
what a forest is
out of the 10 countries with largest tropical rainforests, which countries have a strong government?
Brazil and costa rica
what isn’t it?
legally binding
