Analysing REDD+ with 4Is – institutions and their path-dependencies and ‘stickiness’, actors and their interests, ideas and information – can be useful to understand what hinders or enables change.Transformational change beyond the forestry sector is required to fully realise the mitigation potential of REDD+, but economic interests and power structures pose challenges to such change. REDD+ can also serve – and already does to some extent – as a game changer. New economic incentives, new information, growing public concern about climate change, new actors and new policy coalitions all have the potential to generate transformational change.
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Publication year
2015
Authors
Language
Japanese
Keywords
climate change, mitigation, agricultural policy, environmental policy, deforestation, environmental degradation
Funders
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Department for International Development (DFID), Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID), French Global Environment Facility (FFEM), European Commission (EC)
