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Climate Change, Forests, And International Law: Redd's Descent Into Irrelevance, Annecoos Wiersema
Climate Change, Forests, And International Law: Redd's Descent Into Irrelevance, Annecoos Wiersema
Annecoos Wiersema
Forestry activities account for over 17% of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Since 2005, parties to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change have been negotiating a mechanism known as REDD – Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation – to provide an incentive for developing countries to reduce carbon emissions and limit deforestation at the same time. Many believe this mechanism will not only mitigate climate change but will also provide biodiversity and forests with the hard international law regime that has so far been missing. These commentators assume REDD will develop into this kind of hard international law regime. They …
The Implementation Gap: What Causes Laws To Succeed Or Fail?, David Barnhizer
The Implementation Gap: What Causes Laws To Succeed Or Fail?, David Barnhizer
David Barnhizer
It is important to go behind the “paper systems” many countries and private sector actors have created to manufacture the appearance of commitments to responsible economic activity, environmental protection and social justice. This produces the need to penetrate the veils that mask governments’ “apparent compliance” with the terms of sustainable development, and to be honest about the inability of voluntary codes of practice to shape the behavior of business and government. Implementation requires effective systems to carry out the law and policy mandates. Laws and policies are often poorly designed or deliberately sabotaged in their creation, but in many instances …