REDD+ policy strategy in Cameroon: Actors, institutions and governance

Somorin, Olufunso A.; Visseren-Hamakers, I.J.; Arts, B.J.M.; Sonwa, D.J.; Tiani, A.M.

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2013.02.004

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“…This is the case not only with developing countries (Awono et al, 2014;Evans et al, 2014;Luttrell et al, 2014;Somorin et al, 2014), but also North American (e.g. Wellstead et al, 2014) and European countries (Kleinschmit and Sjöstedt, 2014).…”

Section: What Are the Defining Features Of Contemporary Internationalmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The repositioning of forests into the climate change debate is reproducing the struggle of representation in natural resource political decision making that has marred countries like Indonesia (Luttrell et al, 2014), Peru (Evans et al, 2014) and Cameroon (Awono et al, 2014;Somorin et al, 2014) for decades. The interests at stake and the actors involved have also changed.…”

Section: Tensions Between Global Policies and Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…REDD+'s focus on rapid results and performance-based payments, Luttrell et al (2014) argue, risks putting under pressure the slower, more fundamental reforms that are needed for forest conservation (see also Somorin et al, 2014).…”

Section: The Institutionalisation Of Redd+: Progress and Pitfallsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Attempts to solve the problem of global deforestation have failed because deforestation is not "a unitary phenomenon being amenable to easy generalisation, much less global governance" (Boyd, 2010: 866). However, rules generated from other international institutions, such as the UN-REDD Programme and other organisations, help to shape REDD+ at local levels (Awono et al, 2014;Evans et al, 2014;Luttrell et al, 2014;Somorin et al, 2014). In addition to the rules devised by UNFCCC, the FCPF and the UN-REDD Programme they include the principle of free, prior and informed consent for indigenous peoples, contained within the ILO Convention 169 and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the principle of benefit-sharing of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).…”

Section: The Institutionalisation Of Redd+: Progress and Pitfallsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several contributions examine the translations of specific definitions and delineations of forest-climate problems into policies in different parts of the world, including Peru (Evans et al, 2014), Indonesia (Luttrell et al, 2014), Cameroon (Awono et al, 2014;Somorin et al, 2014), Sweden (Kleinschmit and Sjöstedt, 2014), Canada and the United States (Wellstead et al, 2014), and Australia and the United Kingdom (Buizer and Lawrence, 2014). Others are more general and theoretically oriented reflections (Den Besten et al, 2014;Karsenty et al, 2014;McDermott, 2014;Reinecke et al, 2014) or explore a related policy domain to see how it can be instructive to the REDD+ debate (Melo et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Climate change and deforestation: The evolution of an intersecting policy domain

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Forests and climate change are increasingly dealt with as interconnected policy issues. Both the potential synergies and policy conflicts between forest conservation and restoration and climate change mitigation now receive sustained and high level attention from academic, policy analysis and practitioner communities across the globe. Arguably the most pronounced contemporary policy manifestation of this is the debate on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (or REDD+) by which governments and private investors from developed countries may compensate actors in tropical forest countries for reducing forest loss beneath an agreed baseline. Problems of climate-forest policies implementation and governance, however, can also be found in countries such as Canada, the USA, the UK and Australia. The future of instruments like REDD+ is uncertain with growing critiques on payment and performance-based mechanisms and unresolved issues of governance, government and accountability. This paper, and the special issue it introduces, illustrates that in the REDD+ debate many contentious issues have resurfaced from past debates. These issues include the participation and rights of local communities in forest policy and management; the relationship between internationally agreed payment and performance-based programmes and formal democratic decision-making processes and structures; the complexities of rights to carbon versus tenure rights; and the ways in which -in spite of the high expectations of both developing and developed countries to combat carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation through the REDD+ mechanism -effective climate-focused forestry policies are seldom found in most tropical forest-rich countries. REDD+ is now very much the dominant discourse at the forest-climate interface, and one with a primary focus on measurability to communicate carbon mitigation results across various levels. However, this serves to disperse and displace, rather than resolve, policy-making on non-carbon values.

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Section: What Are the Defining Features Of Contemporary Internationalmentioning

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Section: Tensions Between Global Policies and Participationmentioning

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Section: The Institutionalisation Of Redd+: Progress and Pitfallsmentioning

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An Assessment Framework for Benefit Sharing Mechanisms to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation within a Forest Policy Mix

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Policy instruments for implementing the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks (REDD+) mechanism operate within an orchestra of policy mixes that affect the forest and other land sectors. How will policymakers choose between the myriad of options for distributing REDD+ benefits, and be able to evaluate its potential effectiveness, efficiency and equity (3Es)? This is a pressing issue given the results‐based aspect of REDD+. We present here a three‐element assessment framework for evaluating the outcomes and performance of REDD+ benefit sharing mechanisms, using the criteria of effectiveness, efficiency and equity: (1) the structures (objective and policies) of a REDD+ benefit sharing mechanism; (2) the broader institutional and policy contexts underlying forest governance; (3) outcomes of REDD+ including emission reductions, ecosystem service provision and poverty alleviation. A strength of the assessment framework is its flexible design to incorporate indicators relevant to different contexts; this helps to generate a shared working understanding of what is to be evaluated in the different REDD+ benefit sharing mechanisms (BSMs) across complex socio‐political contexts. In applying the framework to case studies, the assessment highlights trade‐offs among the 3Es, and the need to better manage access to information, monitoring and evaluation, consideration of local perceptions of equity and inclusive decisionmaking processes. The framework does not aim to simplify complexity, but rather serves to identify actionable ways forward towards a more efficient, effective and equitable implementation and re‐evaluation of REDD+ BSMs as part of reflexive policymaking. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Governance of zero deforestation cocoa in West Africa: New forms of public–private interaction

Carodenuto

2019

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In March 2017, twelve of the world's leading cocoa and chocolate companies made a collective commitment to end the deforestation associated with the global cocoa supply chain. This marks one of the latest forms of transnational business governance, whereby state actors share the regulation of environmental and social externalities with private authority. This paper responds to the call for more contextual research into the complex policy ecosystems in which zero deforestation commitments are implemented and how transnational private authority is interacting with, and possibly being reconfigured by, domestic governance and territory. Combining policy analysis, field work on cocoa farms, focus groups, and over 45 interviews, this paper provides empirical evidence to explain how business commitments to zero deforestation cocoa interact with domestic political processes to reduce deforestation in key cocoaproducing countries. The focus is on three top cocoa producer countries in West Africa, where smallholder cocoa farming causes environmental degradation due to deforestation, and socioeconomic progress for smallholders is difficult to achieve. In these countries, the private sector's commitment to reduce deforestation is situated in government-led programs to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. The findings show that a codependent relationship is evolving between corporate and state-led efforts to reduce deforestation, where the success of zero deforestation cocoa relies on synergistic public-private interaction. Cocoa intensification without expansion, supply chain traceability, and jurisdictional commodity sourcing are the three main areas of future collaboration identified.

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REDD+ policy strategy in Cameroon: Actors, institutions and governance

Cited by 83 publications

References 38 publications

Climate change and deforestation: The evolution of an intersecting policy domain

Climate change and deforestation: The evolution of an intersecting policy domain

An Assessment Framework for Benefit Sharing Mechanisms to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation within a Forest Policy Mix

Governance of zero deforestation cocoa in West Africa: New forms of public–private interaction

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