https://www.forest-trends.org/blog/how-redd-can-help-countries-recovering-from-armed-conflict/ Pioneering Finance for Conservation Sat, 17 Feb 2018 23:03:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.forest-trends.org/blog/how-redd-can-help-countries-recovering-from-armed-conflict/#comment-73 Tue, 21 Jun 2016 09:05:07 +0000 http://www.forest-trends.org/blog/?p=3116#comment-73 […] Myanmar faces. Rival factions who control autonomous areas of forest (this in itself may be “tied directly to grievances” underlying the conflict) have differing approaches to deforestation, and these fragmented […]

]]> https://www.forest-trends.org/blog/how-redd-can-help-countries-recovering-from-armed-conflict/#comment-72 Mon, 20 Jun 2016 09:33:57 +0000 http://www.forest-trends.org/blog/?p=3116#comment-72 […] How REDD+ Can Help Countries Recovering from Armed Conflict By Arthur Blundell, Emily Harwell and Kerstin Canby, Forest Trends, 14 June 2016 For almost all forest-rich countries, a major impediment in reversing patterns of deforestation has been weak institutions that have weak rule of law. That becomes an even greater obstacle in countries with a history of armed conflict. A new Forest Trends analysis of countries supported by the U.N.’s Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD+) program finds that, since the first REDD+ commitments were announced in Bali in 2007, more than half of participating countries have experienced organized armed conflict. The same is true for countries supported by the REDD+ programs hosted by the World Bank: the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility, and the Forest Investment Program. These findings (summarized in the figure below; click to enlarge) will be presented at the Oslo REDD Exchange in Norway on June 14, 2016. […]

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