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category: Climate
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published: 11 / 2010 pages: 28
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REDD: the realities in black and white
By Friends of the Earth International
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OVERVIEW When it comes to climate change, REDD is the couleur dujour. "Reducing Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries" holds out the enticing prospect of mitigating climate change, conserving threatened biodiversity, and bringing much-needed development finance to poor Indigenous Peoples and local forest-dwelling communities - at the same time as offering significant profits to investors. All this immediately begs the question: is REDD too good to be true?
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