Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy (Cambridge Studies on Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Governance)

In Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy, Julia Dehm provides a critical analysis of how the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) scheme operates to reorganise social relations and to establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global South, in ways that benefit the interests of some actors while further marginalising others. In accessible prose that draws on interdisciplinary insights, Dehm demonstrates how, through the creation of new legal relations, including property rights and contractual obligations, new forms of transnational authority over forested areas in the Global South are being constituted. This important work should be read by anyone interested in a critical analysis of international climate law and policy that offers insights into questions of political economy, power, and unequal authority. Cover Half-title Series information Title page Copyright information Contents Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Reconsidering REDD+ A Introduction B Assembling REDD+ 1 REDD+ As a Relation 2 REDD+: Between Vision and Actualisation C Critiquing REDD+ D Understanding REDD+ 1 Climate Justice 2 The Green Economy 3 Power 4 Authority E Beyond REDD+ F Outline of the Book 1 Background to REDD+ A Introduction B REDD+ As a Part of the UNFCCC Framework 1 Result-Based Actions (a) Forest Emission Reference Levels and/or Forest Reference Levels (b) Measuring, Reporting and Verification (c) Safeguards and Non-carbon Benefits 2 Alternative Policy Approaches C REDD+ As Experimental Practices, Preparatory and Market-Construction Activities 1 Demonstration Activities 2 REDD+-Readiness (a) Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (b) UN-REDD Programme (c) Other Multilateral and Bilateral Channels D REDD+ As a Concept, Idea and Way of Seeing 1 REDD+ As a Vision of Economic Valuation of Forests 2 REDD+ As a Vision of an 'Offset' in Transnational Carbon Markets E REDD+ As Co-articulating Various Forms of Anthropocentric Governance 1 Conservation 2 Sustainable Management of Forests F REDD+ As a Social Project 1 Debates in the UNFCCC and by NGOs 2 Debates within the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues 3 The Gradual Elaboration of Safeguards G Conclusion 2 Asserting Global Authority over the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Forests A Introduction B Common Concern C Climate Change and Supranational Jurisdiction 1 Climate Change As a 'Global' Problem 2 Climate Change As a Current or Future Problem 3 Climate Change As a Problem of Emissions, Not Structural Causes 4 The Imperatives of 'Efficiency' 5 Substitution, Standardisation and Equivalence 6 The Differentiated Actualisation of This 'Common Concern' D Forests, 'Common Concern' and Authority 1 Contestation and Authority over Forests 2 From Proprietorial Claims over Forests to 'Concern' for Their Function 3 Carbon Sequestration As a Global Concern 4 The Differentiated Actualisation of This 'Common Concern' E Conclusion 3 Actualising Authority through Public and Private Law: REDD+ through the Lens of Property and Contract A Introduction B Disrupting the Public-Private Boundary C REDD+ through the Lens of Transnational Carbon Contracting 1 Challenges in Drafting Transnational Carbon Contracts for REDD+ 2 Establishing Norms through Carbon Contracting D REDD+ through the Lens of Property 1 The Peculiar Properties of Rights in Carbon 2 Initial Distribution and Unequal Allocation of Emission Allowances 3 Carbon Units in a More Decentralised Climate Regime 4 Inclusion of REDD+ in Post-Paris Markets E Conclusion 4 Responsibility and Capacity: Recasting North-South Difference A Introduction B The Contested Basis and Purpose of Differentiation in the Climate Regime C CBDR-RD: History of the Principle and Its Adoption in the Climate Regime 1 Differentiation in the UNFCCC 2 Kyoto Protocol: The 'High-Water Mark' of Differentiation 3 The Road to Paris: Re-articulating Differentiation 4 Differentiation in the Post-Paris Regime D Carbon Markets, Interests and Responsibility 1 The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Offsets and Trade-Offs 2 Post-Kyoto Discussions on Market Mechanisms 3 REDD+: 'first ripe fruit in the pledge-and-review architecture' E Redressing Differentiated Capacity: Capacity-Building As Governance Reform 1 REDD+-Readiness, Capacity-Building and International Partnerships 2 REDD+-Readiness, Rule of Law and 'Good Governance' Promotion F Conclusion 5 Scale, Multilevel Governance and the Disaggregation of Property Rights in REDD+ A Introduction B Rights in Forest Carbon 1 Carbon Rights 2 Forest Tenure C Common Property Regimes and Natural Resources 1 Common Property Resources As a Development Strategy 2 Property Rights Regimes and Natural Resources 3 Decentralisation and Natural Resource Governance 4 Polycentric Governance and Nested, Multilevel Institutional Arrangements 5 Legal Pluralism and Customary Tenure D Conclusion 6 REDD+ at the 'Local' Level: Between Rights and Responsibilisation A Introduction B Managing Social Risks C Disciplinary Inclusion in the Green Economy D Indigenous Human Rights, Recognition and Cultural Difference E Identifying 'Stakeholders': The Constitution of Environmental Subjects 1 Indigenous Peoples 2 'Local Communities' 3 Identifying the 'Subjects' of Safeguards in REDD+ F Strategies to Manage the 'Social': Between Rights and Responsibilisation 1 Benefit Sharing 2 Tenure Reform 3 Free, Prior and Informed Consent G Conclusion 7 Conclusion: Possibilities for Climate Justice and Planetary Co-habitation Bibliography Treaties UNFCCC Decisions Other Reports and Resolutions by or for International Bodies Books, Chapters in Books, Journal Articles, Reports and News Items Web Resources and Miscellaneous Index "In Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy, Julia Dehm provides a critical analysis of how the REDD+ scheme operates to reorganise social relations and to establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global South in ways that benefit the interests of some actors while further marginalising others. In accessible prose that draws on interdisciplinary insights, Dehm demonstrates how, through the creation of new legal relations, including property rights and contractual obligations, new forms of transnational authority over forested areas in the Global South are being constituted. This important work should be read by anyone interested in a critical analysis of international climate law and policy that offers insights into questions of political economy, power and unequal authority"-- Provided by publisher Dehm analyzes how the REDD+ scheme operates to reorganise social relations and establish new forms of global authority over forests in the Global South, benefitting some actors while further marginalising others. This book is for scholars, students, practitioners, and anyone interested in international climate law and natural resource governance.