When it comes to climate change, REDD is the couleur du jour. “Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries” holds out the enticing prospect of mitigating climate change, conserving threatened biodiversity, and bringing much-needed development finance to poor Indigenous Peoples and local forest-dwelling communities - at the same time as offering significant profits to investors.
All this immediately begs the question: is REDD too good to be true? Friends of the Earth International’s report “REDD – the realities in black and white” answers this critical question.