Challenges and lessons learned for REDD+ finance and its governance

Carbon Balance and Management

Review

Kanako Morita¹  Ken’ichi Matsumoto² 

[1] Center for Biodiversity and Climate Change, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan;United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Tokyo, Japan;Faculty of Economics, Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan;

关键词: REDD+;    Finance;    Governance;    Climate change mitigation;    UNFCCC;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13021-023-00228-y

 received in 2022-06-18, accepted in 2023-04-26,  发布年份 2023

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Discussion on reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries began at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties in 2005, and the agenda for “reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD+)” was introduced under the UNFCCC. The REDD+ framework was developed with the expectation that it would significantly contribute to climate change mitigation at a relatively low cost and produce benefits for both developed and developing countries. Finance is a key element of REDD+ implementation, and many financial sources, approaches, and mechanisms have supported REDD+-related activities in various developing countries. However, the comprehensive challenges and lessons learned for REDD+ finance and its governance have not been fully explored. This paper reviews the relevant literature to understand the challenges for REDD+ finance and its governance in two areas—(1) REDD+ finance aligned with the UNFCCC and (2) REDD+-related finance outside the UNFCCC—which have developed differently and have different implications. This paper first identifies the six key elements of REDD+ finance and its governance across the two fields, and then reviews the related challenges and lessons learned with respect to public and private finance. The challenges for REDD+ finance and its governance aligned with the UNFCCC include enhancing the performance of REDD+ finance using mainly public finance, such as results-based finance and the jurisdictional approach. In contrast, the challenges regarding REDD+-related finance outside the UNFCCC include enhancing the engagement of the private sector in REDD+ finance, mainly targeting the project level, and the relationship between voluntary carbon markets and other investment and finance mechanisms. This paper also identifies the common challenges across REDD+ finance and its governance in the two fields. These challenges include the need to enhance linkages between REDD+ and other objectives, such as carbon neutrality/net-zero, deforestation-free supply chains, and nature-based solutions, as well as the need to develop learning systems for REDD+ finance.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s) 2023

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