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Uncertainty and REDD
Rock Ethics Institute
Rock Ethics Institute
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"There is much about forest carbon that we don’t know and perhaps will never know. Yet carbon markets require that reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions be precisely known. When you buy a pound of coffee you want to know you are getting a pound of coffee. Similarly, when you buy a tonne of CO2 emissions reductions from a forestry project, you want to know you are buying a tonne. Without this certainty, confidence in the market will falter and fraud could run rampant. The following post is the first of several that will appear in ClimateEthics.org focused on deforestation, climate change, and ethics. Because of the large contribution to climate change from deforestation activities, the Bali Road Map adopted at COP-13 in Bali Indonesia by the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) made deforestation an important element in the international community’s strategy to reduce climate change’s threat. It is widely believed that deforestation programs will be an important element in a new regime under the UNFCCC that will replace the Kyoto Protocol. Yet deforestation programs raise a host of ethical issues that ClimateEthics.org will explore in the months ahead. "(p.1)"
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2009-01
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