Carbon offsets in Zimbabwe pay for new garden projects and clean energy stoves, but prevent local communities from using land that was previously communal.
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The gap must be bridged between new climate programmes and care work that underpins everyday environments.
When forest communities have secure rights and tenure, the results can be miraculous.
REDD+ is a UN program to fight deforestation. But, have local and indigenous communities received their equitable benefits?
We need to urgently reform the way forest conservation is measured and sold as a way to offset emissions.
As the world’s largest archipelagic state, Indonesia has great potential to earn carbon credits to protect its endangered mangroves and seagrass – which now store around 17% of global “blue carbon”.
Indonesia’s REDD+ program triggered an improvement in the country forest policies, yet it still struggles to meet the intended ‘transformational change’.
World leaders are slowly learning from decades of failure on tropical forest conservation.
Conservation and development scheme REDD+ has manifested as a series of models, which increases its perceived success and enables it to continue despite not delivering on its wide-reaching promises.
Wetlands are some of the world’s most undervalued weapons against climate change. They store huge quantities of carbon – but without better protection, many could soon be drained or paved over.
It’s crucial to know the relationship between biodiversity and carbon storage to assess whether carbon-focused conservation will also protect the most biodiverse forests.
Unless they trust climate change programmes, communities will continue to plunder forests rendering such interventions redundant.
From drought to economic slowdown, 2016 promises a mixed bag for the world’s forests.
The climate agreement is littered with references to a whole range of new and expanded market-based tools.
Conservation won’t be successful unless we work with people living at the forest edge.
The mid year Bonn negotiations for the proposed new global agreement to tackle climate change have just concluded. They will be finalised at the end of the year in Paris. What progress is being made? What are the challenging issues that may end up being a focus of negotiations in Paris? What does the roadmap from here look like?
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Senior Research Officer, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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PhD student, University of Manchester
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Professor of Conservation Science, Bangor University
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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PhD Candidate in Rural Studies, International Institute of Social Studies
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