Comments on: REDD realities http://www.redd-monitor.org/2010/01/19/redd-realities/ news, views and analysis about reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:18:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: A Witness http://www.redd-monitor.org/2010/01/19/redd-realities/#comment-12525 A Witness Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:06:49 +0000 http://www.redd-monitor.org/?p=3819#comment-12525 Dear Dr Wardell There are a couple of hundred reports listed at the website of the Rights and Resources Initiative - http://www.rightsandresources.org/publications.php - many of which describe the empirical evidence you seek, and discuss issues related to it. One particular report is 'Who conserves the World's forests?', http://www.rightsandresources.org/publication_details.php?publicationID=136 You might also look to the evidence in countries such as Guyana, where the Clinton Initiative is supporting REDD work, and compare the state of the forest carbon in indigenous territories with that in the Asian-run logging concessions which President Jagdeo persists in claiming to be 'pristine'. AW Dear Dr Wardell

There are a couple of hundred reports listed at the website of the Rights and Resources Initiative – http://www.rightsandresources.org/publications.php – many of which describe the empirical evidence you seek, and discuss issues related to it. One particular report is ‘Who conserves the World’s forests?’, http://www.rightsandresources.org/publication_details.php?publicationID=136

You might also look to the evidence in countries such as Guyana, where the Clinton Initiative is supporting REDD work, and compare the state of the forest carbon in indigenous territories with that in the Asian-run logging concessions which President Jagdeo persists in claiming to be ‘pristine’.

AW

]]> By: Dr. D. Andrew Wardell http://www.redd-monitor.org/2010/01/19/redd-realities/#comment-12522 Dr. D. Andrew Wardell Sun, 24 Jan 2010 04:19:38 +0000 http://www.redd-monitor.org/?p=3819#comment-12522 The 'article' extracted from Contours of Climate Justice is strong on the rhetoric of why REDD will fail and should (presumably) not be supported. Unfortunately, it is also breathtakingly weak on providing any evidence to support some of the sweeping statements presented in the final paragraph. I am, in particular, interested in seeing/reading more of the empirical evidence to substantiate the claim that "Respecting indigenous land rights and community forest management has proven to be one of the most equitable, effective and efficient policy incentives for forest conservation and forest restoration", and examples of countries where this has been implemented effectively. The ‘article’ extracted from Contours of Climate Justice is strong on the rhetoric of why REDD will fail and should (presumably) not be supported. Unfortunately, it is also breathtakingly weak on providing any evidence to support some of the sweeping statements presented in the final paragraph. I am, in particular, interested in seeing/reading more of the empirical evidence to substantiate the claim that “Respecting indigenous land rights and community forest management has proven to be one of the most equitable, effective and efficient policy incentives for forest conservation and forest restoration”, and examples of countries where this has been implemented effectively.

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