The Performance of REDD+: From Global Governance to Local Practices

• Other Authors: Arts, Bas (Editor), Ingram, Verina (Editor), Brockhaus, Maria (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Humanities; Education; REDD+ financial benefits; indigenous carbon impact; land grabbing; tenure; social safeguards; forest carbon calibration; REDD+; CCB Standards; Sustainable Development Goals; climate change; community; biodiversity; development; forests; jurisdictional approaches; private sector commitments; commodity-driven deforestation; trifecta jurisdictions; supply chains; public-private partnerships; performativity; REDD+ policy; myths of community; forest governance; forest tenure; property rights; authority structures; the DRC; environmental governance; forest conservation; climate change mitigation; public policies; Amazon; European Union; forest policy; deforestation drivers; tropical forests; practice-based approach; global-local nexus; forest and climate policy; Ghana; Amazon Fund; Results-Based Funding; benefit distribution; resource allocation; climate change funding; effectiveness; forest conservation funding; n/a
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REDD+ represents countries' efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and foster conservation, the sustainable management of forests, and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks. The basic idea is that more carbon can be sequestrated and stocked in tropical forests...