Briefing sur Accra : Les forêts sont plus que du carbone

This briefing by Friends of the Earth International contends that forests provide value beyond carbon sequestration and warns that integrating REDD into carbon markets threatens indigenous land rights and climate goals. It advocates for direct funding of community-led conservation, the recognition of territorial rights for over one billion forest-dependent people, and a shift in responsibility toward industrialized nations to reduce emissions and address the root causes of deforestation, such as biofuels and industrial extraction.

• Forest conservation agreements must aim to completely stop deforestation and degradation rather than merely reducing or delaying emissions, and they must align with the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
• The REDD system risks funding monoculture plantations, which are not equivalent to forests as they store at most 20% of the carbon found in old-growth forests and contain very little of their biodiversity.
• Integrating REDD into carbon markets is viewed as dangerous because it allows high-carbon-intensity countries to avoid necessary economic transformations and may lead to the loss of local sovereignty over natural resources.
• More than one billion people, including 60 million indigenous people, rely on forests; increasing the financial value of forests without formal land titles increases the risk of violent evictions and social upheaval.
• Funding for deforestation should come from alternative sources, such as new emission taxes in industrialized countries, rather than carbon trading or the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, and should support community-led conservation and fire-fighting funds.

APA

Friends of the Earth International (2008). Briefing sur Accra : Les forêts sont plus que du carbone. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FORESTS-ARE-MORE-THAN-CARBON_AUG08_FINAL-French.pdf

Chicago

Friends of the Earth International. Briefing sur Accra : Les forêts sont plus que du carbone. 2008. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FORESTS-ARE-MORE-THAN-CARBON_AUG08_FINAL-French.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{friendsoftheearthinternational2008briefing, author = {{Friends of the Earth International}}, title = {{Briefing sur Accra : Les forêts sont plus que du carbone}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2008}, month = aug, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/FORESTS-ARE-MORE-THAN-CARBON_AUG08_FINAL-French.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }