Rights to Land, Forests and Carbon in REDD+: Insights from Mexico, Brazil and Costa Rica

By E. Corbera, M. Estrada, P. May, G. Navarro, P. Pacheco. 2011

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Land tenure and carbon rights constitute critical issues to take into account in achieving emission reductions, ensuring transparent benefit sharing and determining non-permanence (or non-compliance) liabilities in the context of REDD+ strategies and projects. This is so because tenure systems influence who becomes involved in efforts to avoid deforestation and improve forest management, and that land tenure, carbon rights and liabilities may be linked or divorced with implications for rural development. This paper explores these issues by looking at tenure regimes and carbon rights issues in Mexico, Brazil and Costa Rica. It is effectively shown that complex bundles of rights over forest resources have distinct implications for REDD+ design and implementation, and that REDD+ strategies in selected countries have to date failed in procedurally addressing land-use conflicts and carbon rights entitlements and liabilities.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. J. Lund
2. E. Corbera

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1. J. Lund
2. E. Corbera
3. V. G. Vyamana
4. A. Vatn

In Soil Science

1. E. Corbera
2. V. G. Vyamana

Citations in the corpus

• Roots of inequity: How the implementation of REDD+ reinforces past injustices (2016, background): “…disparities, as well as the existence of inseure and unclear tenure and advocate for a mechanism that takes ognizance of these disparities in its dispensation of benefits, while dvocating for governments to move ahead and make tenure clear nd secure (Brown et al., 2008; Cotula and Mayers, 2009).”
• Problematizing REDD+ as an experiment in payments for ecosystem services (2012, background): “Subsequently, governments should develop legal and technical frameworks for a carbon accounting system that controls for and does not double-count emission reductions from multiple activities, whilst taking into account carbon ownership and liability issues [5,6].”