Comments on: REDD+ best chance for progress on climate change at Durban, says scientist http://blog.cifor.org/5089/redd-best-chance-for-progress-on-climate-change-at-durban-says-scientist/ Thinking Beyond The Canopy Fri, 24 May 2013 04:21:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ekindi Jhude http://blog.cifor.org/5089/redd-best-chance-for-progress-on-climate-change-at-durban-says-scientist/#comment-49921 Ekindi Jhude Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:01:21 +0000 http://blog.cifor.org/?p=5089#comment-49921 Thanks Verchot, for the brillant comments on the REDD+ mechanism. My worry here is how to get the videogramme you presented here in other to animate discussion back in Cameroon

]]> By: Chris Lang http://blog.cifor.org/5089/redd-best-chance-for-progress-on-climate-change-at-durban-says-scientist/#comment-46487 Chris Lang Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:28:28 +0000 http://blog.cifor.org/?p=5089#comment-46487 Interesting interview, but you missed out at least three questions:

1. Given the fact that the carbon markets are collapsing, why are you suggesting market mechanisms to finance REDD?

2. As there are no agreed targets for emissions reductions (and little or no chance of any agreement coming out of Durban) where is the demand for the carbon credits generated by REDD going to come from?

3. Since for every carbon credit there is a buyer who will continue to pollute, REDD as a carbon trading mechanism will not reduce emissions. Are you seriously proposing a REDD as a carbon trading scheme in the absence of a global agreement on emissions reductions? Won’t this lock in polluting technology and make runaway climate change even more likely?

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