New black gold : how can carbon markets work for forest communities?
Date
2013
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Canadian Institute of Sustainable Living (One Sky)
Abstract
Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) could enable some of the poorest forest communities to be paid to conserve and protect their forest resources by companies seeking to offset carbon emissions. This project examines the REDD mechanism from a pro-poor perspective, particularly from the standpoint of local communities, and assesses knowledge gaps among community residents and leaders about carbon trading to avoid deforestation – do they understand and appreciate the rules as they have been developed through a distant global discourse? All the communities had experienced a natural disaster within the last 10 years.
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NIGERIA, CARBON CREDITS, REDD+, POVERTY MITIGATION, COMMUNITY-BASED EDUCATION, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, INFORMED CONSENT, ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS, DEFORESTATION, SOUTH OF SAHARA, FORESTRY, ECOSYSTEMS, AGROFORESTRY, LAND RIGHTS, RIGHT TO NATURAL RESOURCES CONTROL, VIOLENCE PREVENTION