International Forestry Review – Special Issue: REDD and the Evolution of an International Forest Regime Issue 3, October 2008
This special issue of IFR includes the following articles:
- Summary of the Proceedings of the International Workshop “The International Regime, Avoided Deforestation and the Evolution of Public and Private Policies Towards Forests in Developing Countries” A. Karsently, S. Gueneau, D. Capistrano, B. Singer and J-L Peyron [Free download]
- The issue of an International Forest Regime M-C Smouts [Free download]
- The architecture of proposed REDD schemes after Bali: facing critical choices A. Karsenty [Available via REDD Monitor]: In this paper, Karsenty says that forestry credits could create a huge surplus of carbon allowances by allowing ‘non-additional’ credits into the market. It will be impossible in practice to determine whether carbon credits generated through ‘avoided deforestation’ programmes would have occurred anyway, or whether the effects of any given programme to halt deforestation might simply have displaced deforestation elsewhere. Karsenty concludes that there is a strong danger that carbon markets would be swamped by “hot air” credits generated by the forestry sector.
