https://phys.org/news/2024-05-based-schemes-deforestation-poverty.html
'Market-based approaches to forest conservation like carbon offsets and
deforestation-free certification schemes have largely failed to protect trees
or alleviate poverty, according to a major scientific review published on
Monday.
The global study—the most comprehensive of its kind to date—found that trade
and finance-driven initiatives had made "limited" progress halting
deforestation and in some cases worsened economic inequality.
Drawn from years of academic and field work, the report compiled by the
International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO), a group of 15,000
scientists in 120 countries, will be presented at a high-level UN forum
starting Monday.
Its authors urged a "radical rethink" of increasingly popular market-based
approaches often promoted as effective at saving forests, curbing global
warming and raising living standards in developing nations.
"The evidence does not support the claim of win-wins or triple wins for
environment, economy and people often made for market mechanisms as a policy
response to environmental problems," said contributing author Maria Brockhaus
from the University of Helsinki.
"Rather our cases show that poverty and forest loss both are persistent across
different regions of the world... where market mechanisms have been the main
policy option for decades," she told
AFP by email.'
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
