Co‐benefits, trade‐offs, barriers and policies for greenhouse gas mitigation in the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector

M Bustamante, C Robledo‐Abad, R Harper… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector is responsible for approximately
25% of anthropogenic GHG emissions mainly from deforestation and agricultural emissions …

Trends in shifting cultivation and the REDD mechanism

O Mertz - Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2009 - Elsevier
In many parts of the forest-agriculture frontiers of the tropics, particularly in Southeast Asia,
shifting cultivation is rapidly being transformed to other land uses. Yet, there is rather limited …

The potential ecological costs and cobenefits of REDD: a critical review and case study from the Amazon region

CM Stickler, DC Nepstad, MT Coe… - Global Change …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The United Nations climate treaty may soon include a mechanism for compensating
tropical nations that succeed in reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest …

Principles of justice in proposals and policy approaches to avoided deforestation: towards a post-Kyoto climate agreement

C Okereke, K Dooley - Global Environmental Change, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper offers a normative analysis of the current negotiations on reducing emissions
from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) under the United Nations Framework …

Who owns REDD+? Carbon markets, carbon rights and entitlements to REDD+ finance

C Streck - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
The question of who is entitled to benefit from transactions under the United Nations
framework to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) remains …

Indigenous territories and REDD in Latin America: opportunity or threat?

C Van Dam - Forests, 2011 - mdpi.com
An important proportion of Latin America's forests are located in indigenous territories, and
indigenous peoples are the beneficiaries of about 85% of the area for which local rights to …

Zero deforestation zones: The case for linking deforestation-free supply chain initiatives and jurisdictional REDD+

C Meyer, D Miller - Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) presents the idea of Zero Deforestation Zones
(ZDZs) as a solution to implement private sector deforestation-free supply chain …

Designing intergovernmental fiscal transfers for conservation: The case of REDD+ revenue distribution to local governments in Indonesia

S Irawan, L Tacconi, I Ring - Land use policy, 2014 - Elsevier
A REDD+ scheme would involve the transfer of financial resources to forested developing
countries taking part in it. This paper simulates different approaches to the design of …

Slippery violence in the REDD+ forests of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

P Howson - Conservation and Society, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Due to increasing global demand for palm oil, coal, and timber, Indonesia has become the
largest contributor of greenhouse gases from primary forest loss in the world. Carbon market …

Effectiveness of protected areas in preventing forest loss in a tropical mountain region

Y Liu, AD Ziegler, J Wu, S Liang, D Wang, R Xu… - Ecological …, 2022 - Elsevier
As forest loss is accelerating in tropical mountains globally, protected areas (PAs) are seen
as bastions to protect sensitive ecosystems, preserve biodiversity, and safeguard headwater …