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Forests in Exhaustion
An ECA Guide for the Perplexed
, Author(s): Ecosystems Climate Alliance
At the upcoming climate change talks in Cancun, Mexico, the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) will consider a controversial proposal from Brazil to amend the Clean Development Mechanism to include “Forests in Exhaustion”. "Forests in Exhaustion: An ECA Guide for the Perplexed" explains the proposal and sets out the key issues.
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At the upcoming climate change talks in Cancun, Mexico, the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) will consider a controversial proposal from Brazil to amend the Clean Development Mechanism to include “Forests in Exhaustion”.
This proposal seeks to award CDM credits under the Kyoto Protocol for reforestation projects on forest land that has been so over-exploited as to become “exhausted”. The proposal argues that such land would otherwise be abandoned and deforested.
In reality, however, the proposal establishes a loophole that provides huge subsidies to large industrial plantations and potentially incentivises the conversion of degraded natural forests into plantations – undermining the objectives REDD+. In essence the proposal supports the unsustainable exhaustion of land through a ‘just one more crop’ attitude.
"Forests in Exhaustion: An ECA Guide for the Perplexed" explains the proposal and sets out the key issues.
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