This publication brings together eleven articles that reflect on the fundamental and dangerous dimensions of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), the dominant forest policy in the world since 2007.
Since it was introduced in 2007, Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) has become the dominant forest policy worldwide, with impacts on forest-dependent communities, particularly in tropical forest countries.
The experience of the last 15 years has revealed an overwhelming chronicle of REDD’s catastrophic failure to address deforestation and forest degradation. Worse still, it has also intensified the climate crisis and left the causes of deforestation untouched. In fact, REDD it has become an underlying cause of deforestation and climate change itself.
This publication brings together 11 articles that reflect on the fundamental and dangerous dimensions of REDD. We hope that each of them will help to strengthen our arguments and actions against compensation and discover what it really is: a racist mechanism that cannot be improved or fixed because it is intended to ‘keep the oil flowing’ and with that, the capitalist system that drives the current climate, forest and social crisis.
Index
– Introduction (WRM secretariat)
– Notices about some terms used in this post
– REDD, not just a failure s What is hidden behind the letters R – E – D – D? (Jutta Matar)
– Are all types of carbon the same? Fossil carbon, violence and power (Joana Hair)
– Ending colonialism means ending REDD+ (Larry Lohmann)
– “It’s not just about the looting of our land… it’s the looting of our identity” (Interview with Tom Goldtooth)
– 10 years of REDD+ in Acre and its impacts on indigenous and “extractivist” women (Interview with Letícia Yawanawa and Dercy Teles de Carvalho)
– Bloodstained Coal and Carbon in Colombia: Expanding Carbon Taxes with REDD accentuates the failure to put a price on carbon. (Tamra L. Gilbertson)
– The REDD+ Katingan project in Indonesia: the commodification of nature, work and the reproduction of community life (Izzuddin Prawiranegara)
– The legacy of the community carbon project in Nhambita, Mozambique: nostalgia, disappointment and outrage (Boaventura Monjane, Natacha Bruna and Euridse Samuel)
– The PIREDD/Plateaux REDD+ Project in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Conflicts and a grievance mechanism (Prince Lungungu)
– Dangerous for communities and climate: Nature-based “solutions” in Gabon (Muyissi and WRM environment)
– Big Polluters, carbon offsets and REDD+ (Chris Lang)
