REDD+ Flashcards
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“Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation”
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What it does
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1 Conserve carbon stock of forest and increase it.
2 Provide Financial assistance to developing countries to reduce emission of forest.
3 Sustainable mng of forest
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Who has developed this
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Negotiated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2005, with the objective of mitigating climate change through reducing net emissions of greenhouse gases through enhanced forest management in developing countries. Most of the key REDD+ decisions were completed by 2013, with the final pieces of the rulebook finished in 2015
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Why in news
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Because a Delhi based NPO Center For Science and Environment has said the REDD+ in India has failed
