Indonesia is engaging in the UN-backed Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation scheme (REDD+) to … fieldwork conducted in Jambi in 2012, I explore land access patterns in the context of Indonesia's emerging REDD governance … framework. Initial findings show that, despite recent REDD-related forest governance reforms, land tenure issues remain …

deforestation contributes to global climate change and how forest carbon offsets propose to staunch this problem. Through case … studies, I explain the major players in both the Clean Development Mechanism and the voluntary market in forest carbon offsets … analysis of forest carbon offsets, and I propose how to use the law to foment genuine adaptation in the global South. I point …

change contributes 15 % of current global anthropogenic CO2 emissions, largely as a result of forest conversion to other land … uses. To make forests part of the solution, a steep reduction in deforestation emissions is required, as well as policies … landscape of multilateral initiatives promoting forest protection and restoration. It provides concrete options to improve …

recognizing forest carbon in climate policy. Specifically, we investigate the impact of an asymmetric carbon policy that … of not recognizing positive emissions from a reduction in the stock of forest biomass, or of not recognizing negative … emissions from the growth of forest biomass. We show that asymmetric carbon policies lead to lower levels of welfare, as well as …