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Land and carbon tenure: Some – but insufficient – progress

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REDD+ implementation at national, subnational and local levels has resulted in some progress on tenure, but this is far from enough to ensure the proper functioning of REDD+.
In some countries (e.g., Peru, Tanzania and Indonesia), REDD+ implementation has raised the profile of tenure reform in national politics and policy; but it has largely failed to deliver notable gains on the ground.
Major obstacles have been business-as-usual interests favouring forest conversion, the long legacy of exclusion of forest dwellers (notably indigenous peoples) from land-use decision-making, and the fact that concrete efforts to ameliorate tenure have occurred at local project level without sufficient national policy support.

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Publication year

2018

Authors

Sunderlin, W.D.; Larson, A.M.; Sarmiento Barletti, J.P.

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English

Keywords

climate change, ecosystem services, mitigation, emissions, forests

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