Amy Duchelle, Jan Börner, Sven Wunder, Edson Araújo, João Tezza, Renato Farias, Angelica Toniolo, Maria Fernanda Gebara. 2010.
An international mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and increased carbon stocks through improved forest management (REDD+) is likely to become part of a post 2012 international convention on climate change. Meanwhile, the academic and public debate on the role of forest conservation in climate change mitigation has become increasingly polarized. Many of these conflicting positions are based on conceptual models or assumptions about how REDD+ will be put into practice; linking the debate to the large number of pilot REDD+ initiatives currently underway is thus an important step forward. We discuss three hypotheses related to the opportunities and limitations of REDD+ and link them to strategies being pursued by four incipient REDD+ programs in the Brazilian Amazon.
