Making REDD work for the Poor Leo Peskett, David Huberman, Evan Bowen-Jone, Guy Edwards and Jessica Brown
Poverty Environment Partnership, September 2008
Poor forest-dependent communities figure significantly in various REDD proposals, which, as a recent Poverty Environment Partnership (PEP) paper explains, “are all based on the idea that developed countries would pay developing countries to reduce rates of deforestation or degradation by implementing a range of policies and projects.””
The PEP paper, “Making REDD work for the poor,” (authored by ODI and IUCN) presents the links between REDD and poverty, and discusses the poverty implications. “The potential contribution to rural poverty reduction could be immense, but REDD mechanisms may also entail new risks.” By linking these payments to carbon markets (i.e. putting a value on the carbon emissions that are avoided), large sums of money could flow to developing countries. With some estimates exceeding $30 billion per year, these could dwarf existing aid flows to the forest sector in developing countries. The potential contribution to rural poverty reduction could be immense, but REDD mechanisms may also entail new risks. This paper presents a framework for understanding the linkages between REDD and poverty, and conducts an initial analysis of the poverty implications of REDD.
The Policy Brief based on the report is a synthesis of the social dimensions of reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation. It presents ten required conditions that will ensure that the implementation of REDD mechanisms yields benefits for the rural poor in developing countries.
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