Experimentalist governance in climate finance: the case of REDD+ in Brazil
2019
ABSTRACTOne of the most significant impacts of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has been the establishment of a participatory process for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). We analyse the case of Brazil, the country whose land-use emissions from deforestation and forest degradation have declined the most. Through semi-structured interviews with 29 country policy experts – analysed in full text around 7 categories of activities that existing literature identifies as central elements of an effective governance system – we find weak links between the international REDD+ system and what actually happens on the ground inside Brazil. The greatest weaknesses are rooted in the absence of any formal learning system, which prevents higher-level efforts from obtaining useful feedback from lower-level entities responsible for implementation. Analytically our approach is rooted in the idea of ‘experimentalist governance’ in which local policy experim...
Keywords:
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Formal learning
- Environmental resource management
- Deforestation
- Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation
- Corporate governance
- Climate Finance
- Natural resource economics
- Forest degradation
- Citizen journalism
- Economics
- results based financing
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