In pursuit of carbon accountability: the politics of REDD+ measuring, reporting and verification systems

Gupta, Aarti; Lövbrand, Eva; Turnhout, Esther; Vijge, Marjanneke J.

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2012.10.004

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“…Part of the problem, Lund et al [41] argue in their analysis of Tanzania, is the inherent and insidiously alienating technicality and complexity of REDD+ which "did not fall from the sky" but has been produced through the self-interested and self-reproducing ways in which actors in the state, civil society and international organisations project REDD+ [30,43,93]. Indeed, the hegemonic carbon measurement approach, notably through remote sensing, does not only exclude other forms of mensuration and valuation, but it also represents a regime of power which disciplines bearers of other knowledge [33].…”

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“…Yet, the implementation of this goal was more than a mere technical intervention. Rather it entailed evaluating, discounting, and re-working existing institutional arrangements as well as authorising and legitimising new institutional arrangements, actors, knowledge, and practices which are REDD+ enabling [30,33]. In both countries, the processes of institutional restructuring involved blending of old and new institutional units; overhaul of forestry law and forestry policy; and everyday efforts to impart technical know-how in disciplines and expertise areas (such as remote sensing, participatory governance) that are considered critical for REDD+.…”

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“…Through our case studies we demonstrate how REDD+ design is underpinned by and foregrounds ostensibly inclusive visions that are malleable, optimistic and all-encompassing, promising a win-win scenario for all parties [26][27][28][29]. Conversely, implementation of REDD+ has proceeded precisely through various forms of trade-off and exclusion of certain actors, interests, knowledges, practices, forest uses, and claims to resources [7,[30][31][32][33][34][35] . We note that both the ostensibly inclusionary nature of REDD+ design and the failure of its inclusionary visions to translate into reality must be understood partly in terms of the neoliberal provenance of this scheme [6,36,37].…”

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“…For instance, the technicality and complexity of REDD+, which foreclose autonomous local and national actions have been linked precisely to the "approach taken by government officials, consultants, forestry, and development experts to operationalize the idea of REDD+" [41] (p.132), [30,33,43]. Both discursive inclusions at the level of policy design and exclusion at the level of implementation are also partly inherent to the REDD+ policy itself.…”

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REDD+ in West Africa: Politics of Design and Implementation in Ghana and Nigeria

Asiyanbi¹,

Arhin²,

Isyaku³

2016

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This paper analyses the design and implementation of REDD+ in the West African region, an important global biodiversity area. Drawing on in-depth interviews, analysis of policy documents and observation of everyday activities, we sought to understand how REDD+ has been designed and implemented in Nigeria and Ghana. We draw on tools from political ecology to examine how, and why REDD+ takes the form it does in these countries. We focus on three key dimensions that emerged as strong areas of common emphasis in our case studies --capacity building, carbon visibility, and property rights. First, we show that, while REDD+ design generally foregrounds an ostensible inclusionary politics, its implementation is driven through various forms of exclusion. This contradictory inclusion-exclusion politics, which is partly emblematic of the neoliberal provenance of the REDD+ policy, is also a contingent reality and a strategy for navigating complexities and pursuing certain interests. Second, we show that though the emergent foci of REDD+ implementation in our case studies align with global REDD+ expectations, they yet manifest as historically and geographically contingent processes that reflect negotiated and contested relations among actors that constitute the specific national circumstance of each country. We conclude by reflecting on the wider implications of these findings for understanding REDD+ implementation more broadly.

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“…For instance, if the pursuit of SDG 15, with targets on forest conservation, sought an increase in carbon storage (such as through delineation of new national parks) without stakeholder engagement and/or commitment to the emerging REDD? National Strategy, with MRV systems to monitor performance and impacts, there would be inherent risks (see also Gupta et al 2012;Vijge and Gupta 2014). However, the REDD?…”

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The Sustainable Development Goals and REDD+: assessing institutional interactions and the pursuit of synergies

Lima

Kissinger²,

Visseren-Hamakers

et al. 2017

Int Environ Agreements

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This paper analyzes potential synergies between two recent sustainable development initiatives, namely the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD?), a climate mitigation mechanism negotiated under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The paper elaborates a conceptual framework based on institutional interactions and distinguishes core, complementary, and supplementary synergies that may be realized between the SDGs and REDD?. Potential synergies are analyzed at the global level, as well as within two national-level contexts: Indonesia, with its long-standing REDD? programme, and Myanmar, which is in the early stages of implementing REDD?. Both are now also engaging nationally with the SDG implementation process. Our research draws on literature review and document analysis, direct observations of global policy processes relating to REDD? and SDGs, as well as extensive engagement (of one author) 123Int Environ Agreements (2017) 17:589-606 DOI 10.1007 at national level in Indonesia and Myanmar. Our analysis reveals that there are currently significant opportunities to pursue synergies in the implementation of these international initiatives at the national level, although pro-active interaction management is necessary, especially to achieve complementary synergies.

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Driving governance beyond ecological modernization: REDD+ and the Amazon Fund

Bidone

2021

Env Pol Gov

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This investigation focuses on the design and formulation of the Brazilian Amazon Fund—perhaps the boldest REDD+ oriented initiative to date. Study draws its hypothesis from the understanding that the Amazon Fund operated until recently based on a nuanced integration of two current trends in environmental governance: (i) institutionalization of ecological modernization theories and (ii) establishment of multilevel, multi‐stakeholder governance. To visualize such integration, this work deploys discourse analysis and text‐mining techniques to the Amazon Fund's policy documents. Overall findings suggest the ecological modernization agenda is predominant within the Amazon Fund. The following discussion articulates with environmental studies' critical scholarship to debate the dominance of ecological modernism as it is claimed to inherently narrow the scope of perspectives, knowledge, and values integrated into sustainability policies. Whereas the opposite should occur, considering multi‐stakeholder environmental governance mechanisms propose to incorporate a plurality of legitimate perspectives and knowledge basis. In these terms, innovative approaches that envision “win‐win” solutions for environmental policy may eventually rest in endorsing alternative framings about nature and society that move away from the constrained paradigms of efficiency within ecological modernization theories and discourse. The relevance of this work lays in the debate that acknowledges the importance of driving environmental governance mechanisms in tropical developing countries to new viable alternatives. In broader terms, the importance of this debate emerges in the proposal of changes that move government, business, and civil society away from usual policies (and interests) underpinning policies for land use and the forest sector.

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In pursuit of carbon accountability: the politics of REDD+ measuring, reporting and verification systems

Cited by 139 publications

References 44 publications

REDD+ in West Africa: Politics of Design and Implementation in Ghana and Nigeria

REDD+ in West Africa: Politics of Design and Implementation in Ghana and Nigeria

The Sustainable Development Goals and REDD+: assessing institutional interactions and the pursuit of synergies

Driving governance beyond ecological modernization: REDD+ and the Amazon Fund

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