Bethany Keene-Miller
Author
Publisher
Green Mountain College
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
REDD+, or Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, is an international initiative designed to mitigate climate change, primarily targeted at allowing developing countries to reap financial benefits by keeping forests standing and undertaking reforestation projects in order to sell carbon offsets on the existing global carbon markets. Though the initiative has potential, it also faces a number of criticisms, many of which are related...