redd: la verdad en blanco y negro

The document examines the 'Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation' (REDD) framework, highlighting how its implementation often prioritizes corporate profit and carbon market volatility over the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. Through case studies in countries like Indonesia, Mexico, and Paraguay, it illustrates risks such as 'leakage', the displacement of forest-dependent populations, and the lack of genuine free, prior, and informed consent. The report concludes that REDD should be decoupled from carbon markets and instead focus on reducing demand for agricultural commodities and timber while rewarding those who have historically conserved forests.

• REDD is criticized for potentially exacerbating inequality by generating high profits for corporations and investors while providing few benefits or creating disadvantages for Indigenous Peoples and forest-dependent communities.
• Transnational energy and energy-intensive companies use REDD to project an image of climate leadership ('greenwashing') while continuing to extract fossil fuels and expand operations.
• There is a significant risk that REDD will lead to the privatization of global forest resources, shifting control from local communities to carbon traders and bankers.
• The effectiveness of REDD is threatened by 'leakage', where deforestation activities simply move to other areas because the demand for timber and agricultural raw materials remains high.
• In Indonesia, the Ulu Masen project demonstrates that rapid implementation often overrides the requirement for free, prior, and informed consent from local communities.
• The report argues that linking REDD to volatile carbon markets is dangerous and may allow industrialized nations to avoid real emission reductions through offsets.
• Case studies in Mexico show that previous payment for environmental services (PSA) schemes, which REDD resembles, have been marred by corruption and failed to reduce poverty or deforestation effectively.
• In Paraguay, the Forest Conservation Project has been criticized for ignoring unresolved land tenure disputes and the rights of Indigenous Peoples, including those living in voluntary isolation.
• The document suggests that a truly effective mechanism to end deforestation must reduce the demand for standardized agricultural products and timber and exclude plantations from the definition of forests.

APA

Hall, R., Lechón, D., Siakor, S., Yiah, J., Bassey, N., Lahn, B., Lovera, S., Peña, E. D., Baltodano, J., & Surya, T. (2010). redd: la verdad en blanco y negro. Friends of the Earth International. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/REDD-espanol.pdf

Chicago

Hall, Ronnie, Domingo Lechón, Silas Siakor, Jonathan Yiah, Nnimmo Bassey, Bard Lahn, Simone Lovera, et al. redd: la verdad en blanco y negro. Friends of the Earth International, 2010. https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/REDD-espanol.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{hall2010redd, author = {Hall, Ronnie and Lechón, Domingo and Siakor, Silas and Yiah, Jonathan and Bassey, Nnimmo and Lahn, Bard and Lovera, Simone and Peña, Elías Díaz and Baltodano, Javier and Surya, Teguh}, title = {{redd: la verdad en blanco y negro}}, institution = {Friends of the Earth International}, year = {2010}, month = nov, url = {https://www.foei.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/REDD-espanol.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }