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From: "Institute of Green Economy (IGREC)" <igrecd@gmail.com>
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Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 12:54:56 +0530
Subject: A new paper on REDD+
Dear All
The Institute of Green Economy has web-published its latest working paper titled "Pushing REDD+ out of its Paralyzing Inertia" authored by Dr Promode Kant of Institute of Green Economy, Noida, India, and Prof (Dr) Wu Shuirong of the Institue of Forest Policy and Information, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing. In the paper the authors argue that by the end of Cancun Climate Conference of 2010, the agreements on REDD+ were already adequate for implementation with clear goals, agreement on methodological guidance and social and environmental safeguards, access to technology for monitoring, and a financial commitment of $3.5 billion to kick-start the task. But even after 4 years the progress has been confined to a few pilots, and very small part of the committed finances have been utilized. The ongoing SBSTA deliberations on the Safeguard Information System (SIS) suggests that excessive emphasis over a particular way of monitoring implementation of social and environmental safeguards is at least partly responsible for the inertia into which REDD+ has fallen. At the conceptual level it is difficult to disagree with these demand for perfect safeguards except that the REDD+ is not to be implemented in Developed countries where most land related rights are recorded and recognized and the Courts are generally capable of deciding expeditiously to the satisfaction of all which is not the case in many REDD+ eligible countries. The paper proposes that setting up watertight safeguards is not the most appropriate response to the possibility of flouting of safeguards due to unacceptable trade-offs in terms of costs and lost opportunities. Instead the quest for perfect safeguards as a pre-condition to begin REDD+ activities should be replaced by adequate safeguards, appropriate to national circumstances, that are improved rapidly as REDD+ implementation proceeds. This, combined with swift punishment for wrongdoings, would reduce the possibility for wrongdoing. This approach does not deny the possibility of a morally better option but recognizes that in many given situations the immediate considerations need to dominate in order to create more amenable circumstances for a curative approach in the longer run. The recognition of practical limits placed by national circumstances, along with the need for rapid improvement of these circumstances, should be the centrepiece of a dynamic and effective REDD+ strategy and the SIS should be designed accordingly.
The paper can be downloaded at http://igrec.in/IGREC_Working_Paper_Pushing_REDD_out_of_its_inertia_IGREC_28_2014.pdf
Thanking you
Director
Institute of Green Economy (IGREC)
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