Yet there is a big risk that REDD will deliver much less than is required.
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It also reflects a broader struggle over REDD in Indonesia being fought at the national level.
The REDD initiative on forestry should move lots of money to countries which avoid felling trees.
Thus investments in REDD, by providing support for implementing GIS for forestry, have a dual benefit.
Overcoming such problems may increase the price of REDD credits through higher transactions costs.
Many donor countries support REDD because of the cheap carbon credits that they will receive.
With global climate-change negotiations foundering, the prospects of raising cash for REDD that way look poor.
Assuming REDD delivers, Indonesia has vowed to reduce its forecast 2020 emissions by up to 41%.
REDD's stress on performance should make it unlikely, and Indonesia's forestry is getting less mucky.
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Brazil's draft national REDD law also states that indigenous people own the forest carbon of their reserves.
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For REDD to be sustainable, it will have to be more than life support for the rainforest.
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Unclear ownership also raises a big obstacle to the improvements in land-use planning that REDD must bring about.
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But international money may start to flow through the UN's REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation) scheme.
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Rainforest countries are not easily shamed on the issue, and developed ones are more concerned to get REDD moving.
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Such trade-offs in policy design, while not necessarily inevitable, need to be highlighted for policymakers deciding on REDD architecture.
Kenya has observer status on the UN-REDD Programme Policy Board, but is not a pilot country of the programme.
Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, the boss of Indonesia's new REDD agency, was previously in charge of rebuilding Aceh after the tsunami.
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But even if REDD money flows in spate, it will not be enough to stop the clearance on its own.
Kenyan Ogiek hunter-gatherers claim to have been expelled from their Mau forest after a UN REDD pilot project was launched there.
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But if REDD is unprecedented, it is because so is the threatened climate calamity, and forests have a lead part in that.
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