Indigenous community benefits from a de-centralized approach to REDD+ in Brazil

• Autores: Thales A.P. West
• Localización: Climate Policy, ISSN-e 1752-7457, ISSN 1752-7457, Vol. 16, Nº. 7, 2016, págs. 924-939
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Successful efforts of indigenous groups to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+) will likely vary with how the initiatives are designed and implemented. Whether REDD+ initiatives are carried out by national governments or decentralized to sub-national or project-level institutions with a nested approach could be of great consequence. I describe the Suruí Forest Carbon Project in Amazonian Brazil, one of the first REDD+ pilot projects implemented with indigenous people in the world. I emphasize (1) how enfranchisement of community members in the policy-planning process, fund management, and carbon baseline establishment increased project reliability and equity, and (2) how the project's quality would have likely been diminished if implemented under a centralized REDD+ scheme.