Maximizing biodiversity co-benefits under REDD+: a decoupled approach

Autor: Matthew D Potts, Lisa C Kelley, Hannah M Doll
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Environmental Research Letters, Vol 8, Iss 2, p 024019 (2013)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1748-9326
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/8/2/024019
Popis: Current debates on biodiversity co-benefits under REDD+ are marked by considerable ambiguity and contention. Nevertheless, REDD+ continues to represent one of the most important opportunities for global biodiversity conservation, and the question of how best to achieve biodiversity co-benefits remains an important one. Thus far, most biodiversity conservation in the context of REDD+ is predicated on the notion that services are co-located on a landscape. In contrast, this letter argues that decoupling biodiversity and carbon services on a landscape through national-level planning is a better approach to biodiversity conservation under REDD+. We discuss the fundamental ecological differences between the two services and use principles of resource economics to demonstrate that a decoupled approach will be more efficient, more flexible, and better able to mobilize sufficient finance for biodiversity conservation than a coupled approach.
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