REDD+ Challenges and Opportunities

REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) is a post-modern approach to conservation, sustainable forest management, and forest carbon stocks enhancement. Under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, the mechanism REDD+ supports allowing developed countries (and companies) pay developing countries to keep their forests standing to sustain carbon sequestration as opposed to clearing them for timber, ranching, growing soy, palm oil, or smallholder agriculture. In its simplified form, REDD+ supports the idea of “lets pay the south to keep their forests standing so we can continue polluting.