The transversality of safeguards in the “REDD +” financial frameworks within the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
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Climate change. Finance schemes. Mitigation. Safeguards.
Abstract
The mechanism for climate change mitigation, REDD + represents a financial strategie in which payment for environmental services to reduce carbon emissions is used. Born in the Framework Convention of the United Nations Climate Change, REDD + is designed to help reduce emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere caused by deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries with tropical forests. To strengthen the mechanism, they have been established safeguards, which, applied to the mechanism will guarantee the human rights of populations living and making use of forests, recognized by the internal systems of the countries and in an international scale.The design of REDD+ provides financial methods for operation. The financial sources and the distribution of the resources. This paper explains how the safeguards are employed in these financing schemes in order to protect these rights in all components of REDD +.Downloads
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Andrade Escarabay M. B. (2016). The transversality of safeguards in the “REDD +” financial frameworks within the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Observatorio Medioambiental, 19, 21-33. https://doi.org/10.5209/OBMD.54154
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