ABSTRACT
Attention to land-based carbon management has become an urgent global issue in the past 10 years, particularly in the development of “avoided deforestation” policies, referred to as Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, or REDD+. Pilot programs to prepare countries for REDD+ readiness are now emerging in many different nations, funded by bilateral and multilateral donors, and involving new institutions like the UN-REDD program and the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) of the World Bank (Cerbu et al. 2011). Yet key questions have been raised about how REDD+ will actually work, given that nations themselves will determine much of the on-the-ground activity toward meeting international benchmarks (Corbera and Schroeder 2011). Further, many of the REDD+ readiness projects being implemented focus on different interests ref lecting the wide variety of donors supporting such actions.
