From euphoria to reality on efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+)

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 615-620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin B. Matthews ◽  
Meine van Noordwijk
Keyword(s):  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Reduce Emissions

An Assessment Framework for Benefit Sharing Mechanisms to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation within a Forest Policy Mix

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 436-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Yee Wong ◽  
Lasse Loft ◽  
Maria Brockhaus ◽  
Anastasia Lucy Yang ◽  
Thu Thuy Pham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Policy ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Benefit Sharing ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Policy Mix ◽  
Reduce Emissions

scholarly journals THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PRESIDENTIAL INSTRUCTION (INPRES) NO. 5/2019 IN ERADICATING THE PEATLAND FIRES IN THE KALIMANTAN REGION

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-230
Author(s):  
Syahrir Roni Geyasra ◽  
Renate Septiana Widiaputri ◽  
Sathya Reysha Wacanno
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Edward Iii ◽  
Reduce Emissions

The forest and peat permit moratorium is a policy aimed at improving and perfecting the ongoing management of forests and peatlands. The policy also aims to continue efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. This moratorium policy for forest and peat permits was created during the reign of former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in 2011 and is extended every two years. In 2019, the policy was ordered as permanent moratorium by President Joko Widodo and formulated in Presidential Instruction No. 5/2019. Since the implementation of the moratorium, there has been a decrease in the rate of deforestation of forests and peatlands in Indonesia. However, forest and land fires still occur, especially in the Kalimantan region. Even in 2019, significant forest and peatland fires have occurred in Kalimantan since a similar incident in 2015. The hotspots of these fires are scattered in various provinces in Kalimantan, disrupting public health due to the thick smoke generated. This study is analyzed using the Theory of Policy Implementation by George C. Edward III. Through policy research, this research is examined qualitatively to analyze the effectiveness of the implementation of Presidential Instruction No. 5/2019 on the phenomenon of peatland fires in the Kalimantan region. The results of this study indicate that there are still weaknesses in implementing Presidential Instruction No. 5/2019 so that it is said to be less effective in eradicating forest and peatland governance.   Keywords: Effectiveness, Policy Implementation, Presidential Instruction, Peatland Fires

scholarly journals Deadlock or Transformational Change? Exploring Public Discourse on REDD+ Across Seven Countries

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 63-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica Di Gregorio ◽  
Maria Brockhaus ◽  
Tim Cronin ◽  
Efrian Muharrom ◽  
Sofi Mardiah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Discourse ◽  
Transformational Change ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Socioeconomic Outcomes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
The Media ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
Reduce Emissions

This article investigates the public discourses on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) across seven countries, to assess whether they support policy reforms. We argue that transformational discourses have at least one of these characteristics: they advocate specific policy reforms that address the drivers of deforestation and forest degradation; take into account the potential risks of a REDD+ mechanism; go beyond technocratic solutions to reduce emissions; and explicitly challenge existing power relations that support drivers of deforestation. The evidence indicates the predominance of win-win storylines, a lack of engagement by state actors with debates on the potential negative socioeconomic outcomes of REDD+, and little attention to the drivers of deforestation. The article concludes that to achieve a shift toward transformational public discourse, reformist policy actors and the media need to engage dominant policy actors in debates about how to reduce pressure on the forest.

scholarly journals The Cost of Managing Forest Carbon under REDD+ Initiatives: A Case of Kolo Hills Forests in Kondoa District, Dodoma, Tanzania

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kabura John ◽  
Dos Santos A. Silayo ◽  
Arild Vatn
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Forest Carbon ◽  
Tree Planting ◽  
Internal Rate Of Return ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Bank Rate ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
The Cost

Countries considering participating in a REDD+ mechanism need information on what it would cost them to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. This study was conducted to estimate the cost of managing forest carbon under REDD+ initiatives in Kolo Hills Forest, Kondoa, Tanzania. Socioeconomic and biophysical information was collected through structured questionnaires, focus group discussions, and forest inventory, respectively. Results show that the community participated in managing the forest by undertaking a range of activities such as tree planting, patrolling, and fire protection. The estimated total cost was USD 418,349.38 while the average cost was USD 79.06/ha. The average carbon stored was 19.75 tC ha−1, which is equivalent to 72.48 tCO2 ha−1. Costs incurred by managing the forest in relation to tCO2stored were USD 1.0485 tCO2 e−1ha−1. The project was found to be economically feasible at 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% discount rates with NPVs of USD 107,102,331.83, USD 33,986,255.86, USD 10,312,945, and USD 1,245,905.11, respectively. The internal rate of return was 21.21% which is much higher than the World Bank rate of 15.8% and the Tanzania rate of 14.8%. We therefore conclude that the decision to undertake this REDD+ project was worthwhile and should be favoured against the “do nothing” alternative.

scholarly journals The Pluriversality of Efforts to Reduce Deforestation in Brazil over the Past Decade: An Analysis of Policy Actors’ Perceptions

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1061
Author(s):  
Maria Fernanda Gebara ◽  
Patrícia Gallo ◽  
Alice Brites ◽  
Guilherme Lima ◽  
Tatiane Micheletti
Keyword(s):  
Phase 1 ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Tropical Landscapes ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
The Way

Brazil offers a complex and unique example of tropical landscapes. The country has considerably decreased deforestation since 2004, but Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) is arguably under question, both as a concept and as a tool to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as deforestation levels have increased over the last five years. This article investigates how different policy actors have perceived REDD+ over time, how they have engaged in REDD+ efforts over the past decade, and how REDD+ implementation in Brazil should move forward accordingly. We analyzed qualitative data from semi-structured interviews and actors’ “stances”, i.e., their positions—with regards to key issues connected to REDD+ governance and its challenges—over three different time periods (Phase 1: 2010–2011, Phase 2: 2015–2016, and Phase 3: 2019), so as to identify the practical implications of these diverse interpretations. We argue that the way actors perceive REDD+ is intimately related to the way they interpret and assign meanings towards it and, in consequence, the way they coordinate REDD+-related practices and efforts. We focus on the link between perceptions and efforts so as to comprehend the relevance that different interpretations have to both the concept and implementation of REDD+ in Brazil. Our analysis concentrates on the potential to improve the coordination and integration of REDD+ implementation and diverse actors’ efforts with regards to REDD+ activities. Results suggest that actors’ perceptions of REDD+ generated a plurality of meanings, highlighting a range of dialectical and ontological interactions that have, in turn, resulted in multiple REDD+ interpretations. Findings highlight that different actors have the same interests when it comes to their organizational efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, suggesting that there is room for a better coordination of efforts towards this end, as well as increased collaboration.

scholarly journals Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in Nepal: A Review

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 75-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Banu Gauli ◽  
Suraj Upadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Carbon Stocks ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Forest Resource ◽  
Redd Plus ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
The Government ◽  
Available Information

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) in developing countries is a mechanism that allows industrialized countries to offset their emissions by purchasing carbon credits from developing countries, which reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation by avoiding such activities. The Government of Nepal is committed to REDD through reversing deforestation and forest degradation, conservation of existing forest and enhancing forest carbon stocks, while addressing livelihoods concerns at the same time since 2009 and now it has been flourished in the country along with concept of sustainable development of the forest resource of country. Nepal has undergone different stages during this process and has planned certain strategy for the future. The assemblages of the available information on REDD in Nepal is important to over view its holistic prospect, aspect and potentiality in the least developing country like Nepal which holds the greater possibility to be benefited from the REDD. Nepal is now in the process to prepare national REDD strategy by 2013 and there are different On Going REDD -Plus Piloting Initiatives in Nepal. Nepal has greater potentiality of being benefited from REDD though some policy related to it needed to be redefined and clarify. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/init.v5i0.10257  The Initiation 2013 Vol.5; 75-83

scholarly journals STRENGTHENING THE POSITION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE FOREST BY SUBSQUENT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT DECISION OF REPUBLIK INDONESIA NO.35/PUU-X/2012 TO SUPPORT OF REDD+ INDONESIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anti Mayastuti
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
The Government

<p><em>The problems of disputes over land ownership of forest between the government (in this case is the state) and the community, has been occured tens of years ago, but the increase was higher along with just an era of reform. A possession of forest resources has been dominated by large employers with the strength of their capital, while the local community (in this case of indigenous people) who rely on forest resources for generations before this country stood, their fate was even more marginalized. In fact, the existence of indigenous people with local wisdom value, plays an important role in forest management, as recognized in Act No.41 of 1999 about Forestry. </em><em>Inequality of distribution of forest resources this mastery was seen as a base for real social conflict happens in the life of the community law. Furthermore it was published constitutional court’s verdict of RI No.35/PUU-X/2012 to provid e access to justice for indigenous people over the mastery of the forest. This recognition is strengthened by the existence of a REDD + Program aims to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation that requires the existence of a customary law society active participation through the empowerment of local wisdom values.</em></p>

scholarly journals The role of fiscal instruments in encouraging the private sector and smallholders to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation: Evidence from Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 101913 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Cadman ◽  
Tapan Sarker ◽  
Zahrul Muttaqin ◽  
Fitri Nurfatriani ◽  
Mimi Salminah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Reduce Emissions

scholarly journals Developing community-based forest ecosystem service management to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation

2019 ◽  
Vol 108 ◽  
pp. 101938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zahrul Muttaqin ◽  
Iis Alviya ◽  
Mega Lugina ◽  
Farid Almuhayat Uhib Hamdani ◽  
Indartik
Keyword(s):  
Forest Ecosystem ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Forest Degradation ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
Forest Ecosystem Service
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