REDD+ a 'Good Idea' but Poorly Implemented: CIFOR'

REDD+ has fallen well short of expectations, but there is still hope.

So asserts a new REDD+ case book, published by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) two weeks ago to coincide with the United Nations climate change negotiations in Peru.

REDD, or reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, is a climate change mitigation mechanism that would pay developing countries like Indonesia to save their forests instead of cutting them down. REDD+ is the broadened version of the concept that includes other conservation activities.

December 16, 2014