Law, Tropical Forests and Carbon The Case of REDD+

Emerging from the scientific parameters underpinning REDD+ (including the measurement of carbon stocks, reporting and verification), Law, Tropical Forests and Carbon considers the crucial challenges for global and national governance and the legal rights and interests of indigenous people and local communities, all of which have fundamental implications for development and poverty alleviation. With contributions from leading experts in the fields of law, governance, science, development studies and geography, it sheds light on the complexity of REDD+ and offers perspectives on the extent to which REDD+ agreements can be enforced under international law and in concert with new private and public domestic institutions.

• Offers perspectives from the disciplines of law, governance, science, development studies and geography in order to thoroughly investigate, critically analyse and explain the parameters of REDD+ schemes and the challenges they face

• Steps back from much of the traditional REDD+ rhetoric in order to consider the crucial challenges for law and governance

• Investigates how any internationally sanctioned agreement on REDD+ under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change might be legally enforced