Mapping the Climate Change and Biodiversity Impacts of REDD - Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation
New Report Underlines Multiple Benefits but Also new Challenges to Biodiversity-Rich Sites from Possible Copenhagen Climate Deal
Copenhagen, 14 December 2009 - An agreement in Copenhagen to fund reduced emissions from deforestation may generate multiple environmental and economic benefits if investments simultaneously target sites that are both carbon and biodiversity-rich.
But the new report, published today in the journal Conservation Letters, also warns of challenges in countries such as Brazil and parts of East Africa unless safeguards are followed.
This is because funding Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) might also displace and intensify activities such as agriculture into lower carbon but equally biodiversity-rich locales. Such areas include parts of East Africa and Brazil.
