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REDD, White, and Blue: Is Proposed U.S. Climate Legislation Adequate To Promote a Global Carbon Credits System for Avoided Deforestation in a Post-Kyoto Regime?
Get PDFReducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) has emerged as animportant, albeit controversial, component of negotiations for a new international climate changeregime to succeed the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012. Not permitted under the terms ofthe Kyoto Protocol, REDD involves paying developing countries to protect their tropical forests asa climate change mitigation strategy. REDD gained widespread attention by 2005 and took centerstage in the months preceding the negotiation of the Copenhagen Accord in December 2009. Aftermore than a decade of nonparticipation in international climate change compliance efforts, theUnited States has signed the Copenhagen Accord, which contains several provisions addressingREDD. Significant questions remain, however, regarding the manner and degree to which REDDmechanisms will be implemented. One of the most critical lingering questions is the potential useof REDD as a component of U.S. participation in a post-Kyoto climate change regime. Theclimate change legislation pending before Congress contains important provisions addressingREDD. If signed into law, the U.S. legislation would help promote the use of REDD as anindispensable component of an international carbon market and enable the United States to assumea long-overdue leadership role in international climate change regulation
Ending the U.S. Program of Torture and Impunity: President Obama’s First Steps and the Path Forward
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