Reconsidering REDD+: Authority, Power and Law in the Green Economy

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Introduction: Reconsidering REDD+
	A Introduction
	B Assembling REDD+
		1 REDD+ As a Relation
		2 REDD+: Between Vision and Actualisation
	C Critiquing REDD+
	D Understanding REDD+
		1 Climate Justice
		2 The Green Economy
		3 Power
		4 Authority
	E Beyond REDD+
	F Outline of the Book
1 Background to REDD+
	A Introduction
	B REDD+ As a Part of the UNFCCC Framework
		1 Result-Based Actions
			(a) Forest Emission Reference Levels and/or Forest Reference Levels
			(b) Measuring, Reporting and Verification
			(c) Safeguards and Non-carbon Benefits
		2 Alternative Policy Approaches
	C REDD+ As Experimental Practices, Preparatory and Market-Construction Activities
		1 Demonstration Activities
		2 REDD+-Readiness
			(a) Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
			(b) UN-REDD Programme
			(c) Other Multilateral and Bilateral Channels
	D REDD+ As a Concept, Idea and Way of Seeing
		1 REDD+ As a Vision of Economic Valuation of Forests
		2 REDD+ As a Vision of an 'Offset' in Transnational Carbon Markets
	E REDD+ As Co-articulating Various Forms of Anthropocentric Governance
		1 Conservation
		2 Sustainable Management of Forests
	F REDD+ As a Social Project
		1 Debates in the UNFCCC and by NGOs
		2 Debates within the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
		3 The Gradual Elaboration of Safeguards
	G Conclusion
2 Asserting Global Authority over the Carbon Sequestration Potential of Forests
	A Introduction
	B Common Concern
	C Climate Change and Supranational Jurisdiction
		1 Climate Change As a 'Global' Problem
		2 Climate Change As a Current or Future Problem
		3 Climate Change As a Problem of Emissions, Not Structural Causes
		4 The Imperatives of 'Efficiency'
		5 Substitution, Standardisation and Equivalence
		6 The Differentiated Actualisation of This 'Common Concern'
	D Forests, 'Common Concern' and Authority
		1 Contestation and Authority over Forests
		2 From Proprietorial Claims over Forests to 'Concern' for Their Function
		3 Carbon Sequestration As a Global Concern
		4 The Differentiated Actualisation of This 'Common Concern'
	E Conclusion
3 Actualising Authority through Public and Private Law: REDD+ through the Lens of Property and Contract
	A Introduction
	B Disrupting the Public-Private Boundary
	C REDD+ through the Lens of Transnational Carbon Contracting
		1 Challenges in Drafting Transnational Carbon Contracts for REDD+
		2 Establishing Norms through Carbon Contracting
	D REDD+ through the Lens of Property
		1 The Peculiar Properties of Rights in Carbon
		2 Initial Distribution and Unequal Allocation of Emission Allowances
		3 Carbon Units in a More Decentralised Climate Regime
		4 Inclusion of REDD+ in Post-Paris Markets
	E Conclusion
4 Responsibility and Capacity: Recasting North-South Difference
	A Introduction
	B The Contested Basis and Purpose of Differentiation in the Climate Regime
	C CBDR-RD: History of the Principle and Its Adoption in the Climate Regime
		1 Differentiation in the UNFCCC
		2 Kyoto Protocol: The 'High-Water Mark' of Differentiation
		3 The Road to Paris: Re-articulating Differentiation
		4 Differentiation in the Post-Paris Regime
	D Carbon Markets, Interests and Responsibility
		1 The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Offsets and Trade-Offs
		2 Post-Kyoto Discussions on Market Mechanisms
		3 REDD+: 'first ripe fruit in the pledge-and-review architecture'
	E Redressing Differentiated Capacity: Capacity-Building As Governance Reform
		1 REDD+-Readiness, Capacity-Building and International Partnerships
		2 REDD+-Readiness, Rule of Law and 'Good Governance' Promotion
	F Conclusion
5 Scale, Multilevel Governance and the Disaggregation of Property Rights in REDD+
	A Introduction
	B Rights in Forest Carbon
		1 Carbon Rights
		2 Forest Tenure
	C Common Property Regimes and Natural Resources
		1 Common Property Resources As a Development Strategy
		2 Property Rights Regimes and Natural Resources
		3 Decentralisation and Natural Resource Governance
		4 Polycentric Governance and Nested, Multilevel Institutional Arrangements
		5 Legal Pluralism and Customary Tenure
	D Conclusion
6 REDD+ at the 'Local' Level: Between Rights and Responsibilisation
	A Introduction
	B Managing Social Risks
	C Disciplinary Inclusion in the Green Economy
	D Indigenous Human Rights, Recognition and Cultural Difference
	E Identifying 'Stakeholders': The Constitution of Environmental Subjects
		1 Indigenous Peoples
		2 'Local Communities'
		3 Identifying the 'Subjects' of Safeguards in REDD+
	F Strategies to Manage the 'Social': Between Rights and Responsibilisation
		1 Benefit Sharing
		2 Tenure Reform
		3 Free, Prior and Informed Consent
	G Conclusion
7 Conclusion: Possibilities for Climate Justice and Planetary Co-habitation
Bibliography
	Treaties
	UNFCCC Decisions
	Other Reports and Resolutions by or for International Bodies
	Books, Chapters in Books, Journal Articles, Reports and News Items
	Web Resources and Miscellaneous
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